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 It was so nice of Konami to provide a free game with the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo. I am the master of time. I am the one who brings back those who are far away. I am the one who seperate the two warriors, the mediator of conflict. I am the sign of the sky. I am the one who repel all creations. I am the one who write the Maat  .I am the master of massacre. -Lyrics of Beyond the Bounds A Humongous Mecha series created for Konami by Hideo Kojima.The First Zone of the Enders was released on the Playstation2, a high-speed mecha combat game about a boy named Leo Stenbuck, a kid from a space colony in orbit around the planet Jupiter that is attacked by BAHRAM, a group of rebels seeking to steal back "Jehuty", a Super Prototype Orbital Frame that, naturally, Leo accidentially ends up piloting. With little choice in the matter, Leo, along with Jehuty's AI A.D.A., tries to deliver Jehuty to the UNSF forces on the other side of the colony, while trying to do what he can to halt the attack.Zone of the Enders did a brisk initial sale, which was mostly attributed to the fact that the game also included a demo of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. So rather, people were buying the demo, and then maybe later on trying out the "free game that came with it".Nonetheless, the game sold well enough to gain a cult following of its own. An anime OAV called "Zone of the Enders: IDOLO" was released. A prequel to the game, IDOLO starred Viola, The Dragon of the game, and Radium Lavans, two Martian soldiers who join a resistance movement against the Earth using IDOLO, the first Orbital Frame. A full-sized TV Series, Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i, followed up on the story, featuring James Links, a space trucker who ends up receiving Dolores, an Orbital Frame that happens to think he's her uncle, from his estranged wife Rachel, one of IDOLO's designers who was supposed to have died during the climax of that story. This spurs him to seek out and reconcile with his equally-estranged children and reunite his family. And no government forces, crime families, or rebel troops are going to get in his way.A spin-off game, Zone of the Enders: the Fist of Mars (a.k.a. 2171 Testament) is a Turn Based Strategy game for the Game Boy Advance about a boy named Cage Midwell who finds an strangely powerful L.E.V. hidden on a cruise liner just before the ship is destroyed, forcing him and a mysterious young girl to get inside to save their lives. They eventually fall in with a rebel group known as B.I.S., who seek to free Mars from UNSF oppression. Fist of Mars plays similar to the Super Robot Wars series, but uses a more player-participating battle system where the player chases down the enemy with their crosshairs (or avoids the enemy's) to determine whether an attack hits or misses, and even critical hits. Although the stats of the units help determine how easy or difficult this is, it is entirely possible to hit with every one of your attacks, or dodge every enemy attack, even when a hit or miss would be otherwise unavoidable.A true sequel to the game: Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, was released on the Playstation 2 in 2003. It features a miner and former soldier named Dingo Egret who finds Jehuty, the frame from the first game, hidden on the moon of Callisto, just as BAHRAM does. He fights his way though them, and eventually all the way onto their command ship, where he meets Nohman, leader of BAHRAM and an old colleague of his who wants him to come back to the group. Dingo refuses, so Nohman shoots him. He finds himself awakened by by Ken Marinaris, a woman he fought earlier on Callisto, who calims to be a UNSF spy, and hard-wires his body into Jehuty's life-support systems to keep him alive. In exchange for her saving his life, and later completely fixing him, she wants his help. Dingo escapes down to Mars, where he faces Bahram mecha, trains, battleships, the first game's Leo Stenbuck in the Vic Viper, and finally settling the score not just between himself and Nohman, but Jehuty and Anubis as well. Along the way, however, he has to stop A.D.A. from completing her own mission: make her way to BAHRAM's headquarters and destroy it by self-destructing Jehuty.Oh right. We forgot to mention that the control cockpits for Humanoid Orbital Frames and L.E.V.s are located on the front, right between the mech's legs in fact. Does This Remind You of Anything??Despite rather low sales, Zone of the Enders continues to be a cult favorite, and Kojima has stated that he has ideas for another ZoE game, but for years was tethered to the Metal Gear Solid franchise. But now it's official that, opening of The 2nd Runner. a sequel is currently in the works. From the images released, it seems the Jehuty will sport a Darker and Edgier look and the plot will apparently incorporate fantasy-like elements and demonic creatures. However, Kojima said that the producers plan to keep the previous games' basic nature intact in the new sequel.In the meantime, An HD Collection of the games (The two console ones, anyway) has been announced for the PS3 and 360, much to the elation of fans. Expect to see Jehuty in 1080p in 2012. It was later confirmed that this collection would also be available on the PlayStation Vita, allowing portable Jehuty action.The series contains examples of:
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0 reviews alternative title(s): Zone Of The Enders The Second Runner; Zone Of The Enders The Fist Of Mars
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