The first question with this however, is why full price? If you get sucked into Bandai’s world then you’re looking at a not inconsiderable expense to complete the four part story, at least the Final Fantasy’s have had the decency to be stand alone and contrive different scenarios (ok, this can be played standalone but who the hell would know what was going on?) On the other hand how many of us regularly shell out for a sports title with little more than the year ending changed? We just have to face it, us gamers are ripe for this kind of marketing. The least I can do is to tell anyone unfamiliar with the series to not buy this game – well not yet, at least, you really do need to play Infection and Mutation first, and unless you really dig this stuff then the action figures and TV show are probably off the Christmas pressie list (although you do get a free dvd with this one.)