Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra
The story of Xenosaga III starts a year after "Xenosaga II" ended. Shion has resigned from Vector Industries after learning that the company is deeply connected to the appearance of the Gnosis. She instead…
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is an adventure developed by Monolith Soft, released 6 July 2006 on PlayStation 2.
What Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is an adventure game developed by Monolith Soft and released in 2006. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is a role-playing video game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. It is the final entry in both the Xenosaga trilogy and the larger Xenosaga series, which forms part of the Xeno franchise. Concluding the narrative of Xenosaga Episode I and Episode II, Episode III sees Shion Uzuki and the battle android KOS-MOS search out the origins of the hostile alien Gnosis while being hunted by Shion's former employers and four powerful humans called the Testaments. Gameplay is carried over from the first two games, featuring exploration of environments through a linear narrative, while battles follow…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Xeno series
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is the eighth of 35 entries we hold in the Xeno series. The next entry was Xenosaga II to III: A Missing Year in 2006. Its critic score of 82 is 5 points below the series average of 87. The highest-rated entry is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition at 100.
How it was received
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra launched on 6 July 2006, within three weeks of Persona 3, FlatOut 2, LocoRoco and Titan Quest. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Persona 3, FlatOut 2, LocoRoco, Titan Quest.
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