Wild Arms 2 gives players three different ways of looking at a complicated, new affair

The forthcoming RPG saga from SCEI, Wild Arms 2, is going to be a complicated affair, portraying the action from three separate viewpoints, laying down three divergent pathways through the story but trying to keep the whole thing tied together into a coherent whole.

Ashley Winchester, Liluka Eleniak, and Brad Evans will be your guides in this luscious-looking sequel, as players get to hack and slash their way through Final Fantasy-like battle sequences, bringing peace and prosperity to their homeland of the (parallel world) of Farugaia. Here's the background info on each hero:

The youthful Ashley (19) is described, rather optimistically, as a Gun Warrior. To rescue the hostages kidnapped and held in the ruins, a gun warrior was dispatched. Ashley is the one.

The cradle-snatched Liluka is a petite, dangerously illegal, 14-year-old Cresh Sorceress. Just how Japanese men like 'em. With plenty of spells written down on her cards, Liluka is, surprise, simple and innocent in character. Funny that, just how Japanese men like 'em. Still, at least they've given her the formidable weapon.

Practically ancient, Brad (32) is a deserter. But he's big, standing tall at 190 cm, so we'll forgive him. A hero in the civil war five years previously, he returned to a peaceful world expecting to be hailed a saviour but was instead imprisoned. Armed with a rifle and launcher, with a headband that is actually a bomb he can detonate at any time, Brad is not a man to be messed with.

Courtesy of IGN.com