December 13, 2006 - One day after the surprise announcement of Dragon Quest IX for the DS, Square Enix is all set to drop another bombshell. According reports out of Japan, the next issue of Jump Magazine will contain news of two new Final Fantasy Tactics games.

The PSP will be getting Final Fantasy Tactics: Shishi Sensou, an updated version of the original PlayStation classic. Square Enix is adding new jobs and some slick cell shaded movies, but aside from that, it's unclear what kind of improvements we can expect.

The second project is a bit more mysterious. Nothing is known about this game, except for its title: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Fuuketsu no Guurimore. We don't even know its target platform. Jump is promising an update down the road.

Both projects fall under a series of projects that Square Enix refers to as "Ivalice Alliance," Ivalice being the name of the world in which both Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII take place. Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings, a DS offshoot of this year's PS2 blockbuster, also falls under this project.

We've yet to see the Jump report for ourselves, but with the annual Jump Festa comic/videogame show scheduled to kick off on Saturday in Tokyo, we're hoping to get a look at both new projects shortly. We'll be back later this week with whatever details we can dig up at the show.

Meh, I couldnt get into the original Tactics. Dont know why, I just didnt like it.

It starts off slow, but the game soon starts getting freaken epic. I think its gonna be really cool.

They should make it for DS damnit!

don't worry lol. The psp is getting the original ps1 remade on it. If you read the info on it, you'll notice they have another tactics coming also, just a moment ago it was annonced that the ds is getting the sequel to the tactics advance game that came out on the sp.
So there you should be happy too!.

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Excellent. A tactics advance sequel. Don't really need an original tactics remake since I have the actual game but it would have been nice to have it on DS. I like to be able to play and watch football or law & order at the same time. lol

To this day I have not completed all the missions in FFTA.

I'm with Yarr, I was never able to get into tactics... there were just too many options to start out with and I knew after playing for a couple weeks that I still hadn't fully grasped how to play the game properly and that it would be a huge timeskink because I'd have to a. prolly beat the game through once to understand all the ins and outs and then b. start a new game knowing what to do so I could play through it "properly." It just turned me off to the whole things. I guess I've been spoiled by games that creep along and give you a shitload of tutorials and spoon feed the story to you by being blatantly obvious about what to do next.