The New Evil is the first in a trilogy, which takes place 7 years after Final Fantasy 8 left off, and is the prologue of the fateful events that lie ahead for Squall and his fellow fighters of SeeD. Evil will rise and the good will fall and past and present will merge forever, but will Squall change what terrible future that lies ahead for the Earth or will the evil forces at hand destroy the planet or in fact the whole universe and dominate time forever with compression which Squall once faced.

The story starts when Squall returns from a meeting from the high-tech city of Esther on the eastern continent of the planet. As Squall passes the huge Trambia crater south of Esther a large grey/black portal hits the surface of the crater like a non moving tornado. The huge whirl wind of mist is right in the path of the train tracks which Squall's train moves on, the train passes through the wall of the portal and at that moment Squall heads to the front of the train and leans himself out of the side of the drivers compartment and at that time the grey/black mist has passed and reveals a large army of horsemen coming from the sky like rain from a cloud. The numbers are great and Squall is in the path of the landing horsemen which block his path, slowly the back carriages of the train start to explode with passengers still in them, Squall immediately jumps from the train along with the other SeeD members on the train who are at the front two carriages. The rest of the group jumps out of the train along with other surviving passengers. The army pass out of the portal after a long time, and Squall and the others start to get very afriad of what just passed into their world. Squall makes his way up to the tracks and discovers 8 still bodies lying 300 yards away from him one of which was quite large in size, Squall calls Irvine, Rinoa, Selphie, Zell, Quistis, and Edea with his wrist communicator and tells them to get to the site immediately. The Ragnarok passes and lands just barely from slipping off the side of the tracks. Squall and the others approach the bodies with their weapons drawn ready to protect them selves; Squall then realises that there are 7 bodies instead of 8. Then at that moment the missing figure springs from behind Squall with his sword at the ready, he swings his sword and Squall ducks down away from the blade and then gets ready to defend himself with the others with their weapons drawn at the ready. The stranger introduces himself and we find out it is Cloud Strife had passed along with Tifa Lockheart, Barret Wallace, Cid Highwind, Red xiii, Vincent Valentine, Yuffie Kisaragi and Cait Sith through the large portal. Cloud then tells Squall the reason why they have passed through, and it was to do with the leader of the army whom he once fought. Squall realises that the army must be stopped immediatly in order to keep the Earth from remaining in the way it has been for millions of years. Now Squall, SeeD and the Avalanche group must face one of the most powerful beings in the history of Final Fantasy, but who is he?

The games fighting system was so unique that we have decided to keep it the same, except for a new system which allows you to control the weapons of Squall and Cloud, and also in some cases the others will too. The system works if you want to build the strength, accuracy and also the experience of the character. There is an option to change the fighting systems to standard or new. The new system requires the two analogue sticks, the left one is to pull back and push forward and the right is to swing and to make any loose moves. The training centre will tell you how to use the new fighting system and tell you all the new tips and tricks to becoming a professional fighter.(The new fighting system is still in hard in the thought of use.) The game will have a completely 3 Dimentional world and also made to scale, and also new forms of transport, the Ragnarok, trains, boats and also during the game you can use spaceships. The controls are the same as Final Fantasy 8 and also the use of the analogue sticks. The magic can be divided to allow you e.g. Ultima magic can go on your strength ability and you can split it to also be on you elemental attacks or defence and the magic can be divided as many times as you like. The weapons can be custom made by you piecing together parts of other swords to make a really strong one, you can also customise the swords look by making it see through or with a certain colour or both. The gunblade has a gun on it and can be fired in the new fighting system(Squall and Irvine only) but if you run out you have to reload as fast as you can whilst you move around. There will be all the G.F.s and summons from Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8 to allow every character in the games to have access to one. The Final Fantasy 7 and 8 characters will have their original junction systems from the original games to allow easy sorting out of magic, the Final Fantasy 7 characters will have to divide the magic like the others as there is now no materia in the time of Squall's existence.

THE EVIL EARTH
AND
THE WAR OF PAST AND PRESENT
WILL BE FINISHED SOON


Jonathan David McEnroe and John Stewart
4mikey@libertysurf.co.uk

Mmm... tough one. You know, a trademark for the ff games is that they are all different (except for elements like the chocobo etc.). I think people grow a bit tired of the same characters, especially since these games can be played for 150 hours+ each. But, hey, maybe I`m wrong. Still, I prefer the materia system instead of junctioning, just to have said that!!

Idea Reviewer:
-Eivind Støylen-

RPG Game The New Evil - 7 years after Final Fantasy 8 - Squall and his fellow fighters of SeeD