3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha: To the End of the Galaxy
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| Developer(s) | Banpresto |
| Publisher(s) | Banpresto |
| Producer(s) | Takenobu Terada |
| Series | Super Robot Wars |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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| Genre(s) | Tactical role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha: To the End of the Galaxy (第3次スーパーロボット大戦α 終焉の銀河へ Dai-San-Ji Sūpā Robotto Taisen Arufa: Shūen no Ginga e?) is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 developed and published by Banpresto. It's the 4th and final installment of the Super Robot Wars Alpha series, and canonically the last game produced by Banpresto, before the merging with Bandai Namco Games. It was officially released in Japan on July 28, 2005.
3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha, or simply known as Alpha 3, contains one of the largest casts to ever be placed together within a Super Robot Wars game, only out-beaten by Super Robot Wars Z (and later Super Robot Wars Z3).
Alpha 3 continues to use the Squad System from 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha, where a maximum of four units can be assigned to a squad that counts as a single unit. Since all playable mecha are of different sizes, a size limit is placed, thus the player must consider building an effective squad. The system has received several improvements, including:
Alpha 3 also contains the following:
During development, the manga Gundam Sentinel was to be inlcluded, but was scrapped due to a corporate order to have Gundam SEED instead. Because of this, unused data and graphics for Gundam Sentinel exist in the game's files.
The game's plot is told over the course of the 3 previous Alpha titles, but Alpha 3 focuses primarily on the events of the following series: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God, Macross 7, Steel Jeeg, The End of Evangelion, Gunbuster, The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Chōdenji Robo Combattler V, Chōdenji Machine Voltes V, Tōshō Daimos, and Space Runaway Ideon. However, there is an overarching plot that is told over the backdrop of the various series. The game starts at the end of the "War of Seals" (see 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha) with the crew of the Ra Calium coming upon a massive ring like structure in the Asteroid Field. This Crossgate (as it is later called) causes the Excelion (which blew up at the end of the first Alpha game to take out the STMC) and its crew to reappear even though two years have passed since the end of the first Alpha. The game then gives a summary of all the events of the previous 3 games and depending on which character the player chose at the start of the game will then start the story from there. As the story progresses the Alpha numbers find themselves fighting against the Akashic Record itself to stop the complete destruction of the galaxy which is known as "Apocalypsis".
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