Another Century's Episode 3: The Final

Another Century's Episode 3: The Final (アナザーセンチュリーズエピソード 3 THE FINAL, Anazā Senchurīzu Episōdo Surī The Final), abbreviated as "A.C.E.3", is a mechaactionvideo game produced by Banpresto and developed by FromSoftware. It was released for the PlayStation 2 on September 6, 2007.

Although it is subtitled "The Final", it is not the final entry in the A.C.E. series, which continued with the release of Another Century's Episode: R on the PlayStation 3 in August 2010.

A.C.E.3 is set three years after the events of A.C.E. 2, during the final battle between the UCE and the Zentradi in A.C.E. 2 (the antagonists of Macross), known as The First Defensive War. It also mentions that the UCE forces has been reformed into the Earth Federation forces. The game's overall plot deals with the sudden appearance of a second, war-torn Earth from which new and more deadly enemies emerge. At the same time, enemies who survived the First Defensive War begin reappearing on the original Earth, further complicating matters.

The events of A.C.E. 3 are mainly centered on a device called the Baldora Drive, which was originally planned as a teleportation device for outer space travel in Earth A and the invasion of the space colonies in Earth B. Both sides abandoned the use of the Baldora Drive 18 years ago, but recently brought it back into service when they obtained the means to repair it. Through this device, a wormhole is created in space between the two Earths, which allows the protagonists to travel between them. However, as the wormhole expands due to the effect of the Baldora Charge (which is used to power the device) obtained from various sources of energy, the wormhole grows large enough to make the two earths collide with one another due to gravitational attraction, which will destroy all mankind on both Earths. In order to stop this, heroes from both sides must band together and find a way to stop the device before the wormhole fully expands.

Los principales acorazados en ACE3 son el Gekko de Eureka Seven y el Nadesico B de El Príncipe de las Tinieblas , siendo este último reemplazado finalmente por el Nadesico C según la trama de la película. Tower, la nave principal de Getter Robo , también aparece con frecuencia en el juego. La nave principal de Londo Bell (así como la nave de lanzamiento en ACE ), el Ra Cailum y su capitán, Bright Noa , también aparecen en el juego, pero debido a la muerte de Hirotaka Suzuoki (el actor de voz de Bright) en 2006, la mayoría de sus escenas en el juego fueron eliminadas y sus voces en off reutilizan material grabado de ACE.

El juego se mostró al público en la convención C3×HOBBY Chara-Hobby de 2007 en Japón del 18 al 20 de agosto. ^{[ 1 ]}

Hitomi Shimatani , quien interpretó los temas de apertura y cierre del primer juego de ACE , regresó para componer también los temas de ACE 3. El tema de apertura se titula "Shinku" ("深紅", "Escarlata") y el tema de cierre es "Ai no Uta" (愛の詩, "Poema de amor"). El sencillo que contiene ambas canciones se lanzó el 5 de septiembre de 2007, un día antes del lanzamiento del juego.

Una secuela, Another Century's Episode: R , se estrenó en Japón el 19 de agosto de 2010. ^{[ 2 ]}

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