It was a matter of time before media outside of Japan where going to get hold of a full copy of Final Fantasy XIII. Official Playstation Magazine UK has been the first publication outside of Japan to review the game, with it only missing one mark, totalling the score to an impressive 9/10.

OPM UK also added a nicely detailed 8 Page Feature on Final Fantasy XIII's characters, Eidolons and much more.
Enjoy.

Final Fantasy XIII 4 Page First English Review



Final Fantasy XIII 8 Page Feature

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Dengeki has released the results of a readers poll in which people voted for what they thought was the best game of 2009. A list of the top 20 has been published on their website and Final Fantasy XIII has managed to secure second place. Although there has been a backlash of Japanese fans who have complaints ranging from Final Fantasy XIII's linearity to there being no levels, it still seems to have won people over. See the full list of top 20 games below.

1. Dragon Quest IX
2. Final Fantasy XIII
3. Tales of Vesperia
4. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
5. Steins;Gate
6. Phantasy Star Portable 2
7. Demon’s Souls
8. PERSONA3 PORTABLE
9. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
10. Tales of Graces
11. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next PLUS
12. Monster Hunter Tri
13. Love Plus
14. Bayonetta
15. Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA
16. Shin Megami Tensei STRANGE JOURNEY
17. Layton-kyoju to Majin no Fue
18. THE IDOLM@STER SP
19. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
20. MACROSS ULTIMATE FRONTIER

Source: Dengeki

Motomu Toriyama, director of Final Fantasy XIII, has announced on the official European site that development of the English version of the game is now complete. He says that the English game was developed simultaneously with the Japanese version to ensure a smaller gap between Japanese and international releases. Apparently all they're waiting for is an approval of the master disc. It's a shame they can't bring the international release date forward.

Source: Official European Final Fantasy XIII Site

To follow Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII bus tour taking place in San Franciso today, a new English Final Fantasy XIII trailer has been released as part of Square's Lucky 13 Campaign. The trailer includes full English voice acting and for the first time, Leona Lewis' track "My Hands" backing it. The song gets a little too loud making it hard to hear the voices but other than that it's a pretty nice trailer. Watch it below.

Square Enix has announced this months Lucky 13 Campaign objective and it's good news for those of you in San Francisco. They will be starting a bus tour on January 13th where you'll have the opportunity to play a brand new English demo of Final Fantasy XIII. The bus will be travelling around San Francisco and the bay area from the 13th until the 16th of January with stops being tweeted on Square's new PlayFFXIII Twitter account.

Source: Square Enix Press Release

The Final Fantasy XIII Soundtrack website has been available for a few weeks now but it included an illusive "Movie" section which we weren't able to access. Until now. The first movie to be added to the section is a trailer for the soundtrack itself which is coming out in Japan on the 27th January. If random close ups of CDs and box artwork is up your street, then you won't want to miss this.

Source: Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack Site

Jealous of all the people playing the import of Final Fantasy XIII while your 360 has been left unplayed for almost 3 hours? Well now you can one up us PS3 players in the tiniest way possible! The Chocobo avatar item has worked it's way onto Xbox Live today after everyone re-tweeted the special advertisement message thousands of times on Twitter. Have a look at it in use below.

At least it's free.



Source: Kotaku

Final Fantasy XIII has been out for four days in Japan and it's already sold 1.5 million copies nationwide. Square Enix has shipped 1.8 million copies to retailers across Japan and according to Enterbrain, the game has sold exactly 1,516,532 units so far. It has also helped boost PS3 sales to 245,406, the most PS3s sold in a week to date.

Square Enix has taken another opportunity to show off their partnership with Roen by bringing a new Final Fantasy Versus XIII costume to Jump Festa. The new outfit is for Noctis but we don't know when he's going to wear it or if it might possibly replace his existing one. See it in photos below.



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