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Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts is an action role-playing game developed and published by Squaresoft for the PlayStation 2. It is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company. The game combines…

28 March 2002

Kingdom Hearts is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Square Product Development Division 1, released 28 March 2002 on PlayStation 2.

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What Kingdom Hearts is

Kingdom Hearts is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Square Product Development Division 1 and released in 2002. It was published by Square. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kingdom Hearts is an action role-playing game developed and published by Squaresoft for the PlayStation 2. It is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company. The game combines characters and settings from Disney's animated features with those from the Final Fantasy series, developed by Square. Kingdom Hearts was a departure from Square's standard role-playing games by introducing a substantial action-adventure element. In addition, it has an all-star voice cast which included many of the Disney characters' official voice actors. Kingdom Hearts was longtime Square character designer Tetsuya Nomura's first time in a directorial position. The game uses an…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Kingdom Hearts series

Kingdom Hearts is the first of 63 entries we hold in the Kingdom Hearts series. The next entry was Kingdom Hearts in 2002.

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What it launched against

Kingdom Hearts launched on 28 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

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When did Kingdom Hearts come out?
Kingdom Hearts was released on 28 March 2002 for PlayStation 2.

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