Digimon 3

Digimon World 3 (デジモンワールド 3 新たなる冒険の扉, Dejimon Wārudo 3 Aratanaru Bōken no

Tobira, Digimon World 3: The Door of a New Adventure), also known as Digimon World 2003 in
Europe and Australia, is a role-playing video game for the PlayStation developed by BEC and Boom
Corp, and published by Bandai. It is the third installment in the Digimon World series and it was first
released in June 2002 in North America and then in July 2002 in Japan and November 2002 in
Europe. The game tells the story of Junior, who begins playing an MMORPG called "Digimon
Online" with his friends, but when terrorists attack, Junior and the other players are trapped within
the game and must find a way out using his Digimon partners.

Contents

 1Gameplay
 2Plot
o 2.1Playable Digimon
o 2.2Enemy Digimon
 3Development
 4Reception
 5References
 6External links

Gameplay[edit]
Digimon World 3 differs from its predecessors as the system has been changed to be more like
Japanese Role-Playing games of the time such as Final Fantasy VII or Legend of Dragoon. The
game has 2 primary modes in which it is played: an overworld map and the battle screens. The
player character navigates through a 3D world map using sprites that represent the playable
character and the monsters that make up his party. In battle, players control the parties with up to 3
monsters in turn-based style battles where the player's party fights one on one against the opposing
party, with the option to switch or perform certain actions with the party members.

Plot[edit]

Junior prepares to meet his 3 Digimon: Kumamon, Guilmon, and Patamon (from left to right). Digimon World
3's environments are science fiction-themed and viewed from an isometric perspective.
Junior, and his friends Ivy and Teddy, log into "Digimon Online", where Ivy renames herself "Kail".
Soon after Junior arrives, the players are trapped in the game by an error in the system. MAGAMI's
"Game Master" publicly assures the players that the situation is under control, and blames the
incident on the hacker, Lucky Mouse. Junior proceeds with his adventure as normal and travels to
the A.o.A. controlled West Sector, and after defeating the real leader, travels to a secret base of
Lucky Mouse, who reveals himself to be Kail's long-lost brother and an agent working against the
A.o.A., Kurt, who reveals that MAGAMI is a front for the A.o.A., but soon the A.o.A. arrive and
threaten to turn Kail into Oinkmon, if Kurt doesn't give the Vemmon Digi-Egg to the A.o.A. This
results in Kurt being turned into Oinkmon and the Vemmon Digi-Egg stolen. Junior leads an attack
on the Admin Center, which results in the Game Master being defeated and interrogated. Junior
uses a network break to transport himself to the Amaterasu Server, where he defeats two of the
A.o.A.'s chiefs and learns more about their plans. He returns to Asuka, defeats the fourth leader, and
uses an emergency teleport system to reach MAGASTA, but is unable to prevent the Juggernaut
from being unleashed. The Juggernaut is then used by Vemmon to digivolve to Destromon, which
also allows it to manifest in the real world- thus becoming a very real threat to humans.
Junior returns to the Amaterasu Server to defeat the final two chiefs, and gains access to Amaterasu
City. He leads a fresh attack on the Amaterasu Admin Center, leading to the MAGAMI President
being defeated. Junior then uses the central computer to destroy Destromon, before returning to
Asuka to ask Airdramon to help him in lifting the virus which is affecting most of the players by
transforming them into Oinkmon. Before long, the Oinkmon virus returns and strikes most of the
players, with only Junior and Kail surviving untouched. Vemmon had used the beam containing the
Oinkmon virus and shot the beam through all servers. Junior then goes into the admin center, and in
the Master Room, Junior is challenged by an entity calling himself Lord Megadeath. Junior then
travels to a military satellite, Gunslinger, to challenge Lord Megadeath. Once close to the control
room, Junior battles Armaggeddemon, and defeats it. He then reaches the control room, and battles
Lord Megadeath. Lord Megadeath is defeated, but succeeds in his project of creating Snatchmon, by
combining four Vemmon. Snatchmon absorbs Lord Megadeath, challenges the player, and merges
with the Gunslinger to become Galacticmon- its ultimate goal being to merge with the Earth to
become an unimaginably powerful Gaiamon. Junior defeats him, and Galacticmon's satellite body
falls to Earth, burning up into a meteor shower in the atmosphere.
Three months later, Junior returns to the Amaterasu Server, where, as is revealed in the PAL and
Japanese versions of the game (i.e. in Digimon World 2003), four new Server Leaders have been
established and Kurt is the new World Champion.

Playable Digimon[edit]
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Rookie Digimon
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Champion Digimon
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Ultimate Digimon
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Mega Digimon
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DNA Digivolution exclusive Digimon
Enemy Digimon[edit]
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Rookie Digimon
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Champion Digimon
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Ultimate Digimon
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Mega Digimon
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Armor Digimon
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Other Digimon

Development[edit]
Digimon World 3 was developed by Bandai Entertainment Company and Boom Corporation.
[1]
 Bandai showcased the game at the 2002 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, where it
was playable at several booths. [2] Its music was composed by Satoshi Ishikawa, who had previously
created the soundtracks for Digimon World 2 and Digimon Digital Card Battle. The game's Japanese
theme song is "Miracle Maker", performed by Spirit of Adventure, a group composed
of Digimon anime theme song performers Kōji Wada, AiM, and Takayoshi Tanimoto. It was released
as a single on February 5, 2003 alongside "The Last Element", an insert song from the
anime Digimon Frontier, by NEC Interchannel Records.[3]

Reception[edit]
Reception

Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic 47/100 [4]

Review scores
Publication Score
EGM 4/10 [5]

Famitsu 27/40[6]
GamePro 2/5[7]
GameSpot 4.9/10[8]
GameZone 6.9/10[9]
OPM (US) 50%[10]

Digimon World 3 received a 27 out of 40 total score from editors of Japanese Weekly

Famitsu magazine,[6] and would sell 83,635 copies in Japan by the end of 2002, becoming the 142nd
most-bought software title that year in the region.[11]
The game received "generally unfavorable" reviews from Western critics according to video
game review aggregator website Metacritic, earning an average score of 47 out of 100. [12] Critics
such as Brad Shoemaker from Gamespot found faults with the title's "tiresome" gameplay,
commenting on the constant need to grind experience points to power up the player's Digimon in a
combat engine that is "painfully slow and tedious to use." [8] Although the reviewer acknowledged its
budget retail pricing and "surprisingly easy on the eyes" background graphics, they would ultimately
declare it "at best an average role-playing game that will appeal only to fans of the
greater Digimon franchise."[8] Fennec Fox of GamePro magazine similarly commented on the game's
"impressive" world map graphics, along with its "extremely catchy anime-style music," but panned its
"sluggish pace, long loading times, and some very ugly 3D models during battles." [7] Reviewers such
as J.M. Vargas of PSX Nation compared the title to previous games in the series, saying that "There
is none of the user-friendliness and open-ended approach that made "Super Smash Bros." clone
"Digimon Rumble Arena" such a pleasant experience, commenting on the game's "tedious" training
and battle system.[13] Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine called it "Profoundly mediocre" and "the kind
of game that only hardcore Digi-fans will like."[10]
Digimon World 3 sold enough copies in North America to qualify for Sony's "Greatest Hits" line, and
was subsequently re-issued at a reduced price.[14]