Tales of Vesperia
Set in a world reliant on a mysterious ancient technology known as "blastia," the game follows former knight Yuri as he delves into a shadowy plot to use these magical devices to control civilization, or…
Tales of Vesperia is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Namco Tales Studio, released 7 August 2008 on Xbox 360. The main story takes about 50 hrs to finish.
What Tales of Vesperia is
Tales of Vesperia is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Namco Tales Studio and released in 2008. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tales of Vesperia is an action role-playing game developed by Namco Tales Studio. The tenth mainline entry in the Tales series, it was released for the Xbox 360 and published in Japan and North America by Namco Bandai Games in 2008, and in European territories in 2009. An expanded port of the game for the PlayStation 3 was released in 2009 in Japan. An enhanced version, subtitled Definitive Edition, was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in January 2019. The gameplay is similar to previous Tales games, featuring a new version of the series' trademark action-based "Linear Motion Battle System", while also introducing new elements such as online…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 53 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Tales of series
Tales of Vesperia is the 46th of 96 entries we hold in the Tales of series. The next entry was Tales of Hearts: CG Movie Edition in 2008. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Tales of Symphonia at 89.
How it was received
Tales of Vesperia holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 59 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 50 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 70 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i5-750, ～2.7GHz / AMD X6 FX-6350 3,9GHz AM3, 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 660 2GB / Radeon HD 7950 3GB. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Tales of Vesperia launched on 7 August 2008, within three weeks of Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Street Fighter IV and Castle Crashers. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Street Fighter IV, Castle Crashers.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tales of Vesperia yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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