It is a remake in name only. I played this game to death as a child, and a lot of features that a basic quality of life things just are not present in this game.

Pros
- The game notifies you of when you receive network addresses and stores passwords you learn
- Customization of the wanzers is improved that you can get a decal layer to apply camo patterns and change the emission lights on your wanzers.
- You can skip some of the longer tutorials at the start of the game now

Cons
- The wanzer frame personalities have been lost with the increase in fidelity and don't look anywhere near as interesting
- Ai upscaled art assets. The portraits all look like messy blobs and look very wonky.
- Small bits of personality in the game are gone. The text exploding like it was being shot when you delete letters isn't present. The wanzers have no real recoil from the guns when they fire.
- The wanzers seem more stiff, while this makes sense from giant mech logic, they lose that feeling of being an extension of the characters.
- Some of the designs of the weapons have been changed and I think some of them are copied and not changed where in the original every weapon and part is unique
- Small UI errors like wrong buttons or keys showing up in the wrong spots
- Softlocks are not very frequent, but in a game that had 0 over 20 years ago, having them now is just not acceptable
- Camera transitions are very sudden compared to the fade in and movement from the previous and makes the game look stiff.
- In the previous game, during combat if a building or some object was in the way of someone being shot at or attacking, the object would drop in opacity letting you still see the action. this is not present in this game leading you to just look at building facades when you are in tight fights
- There is no "Miss" indicator when an attack misses like in the original, its a small thing but with the lack of recoil on guns, the sudden and poor camera transitions and handling. You can end up looking at a combat encounter that just includes a poorly animated muzzle flash and that is it.
- There is no remnant of bullet holes in the walls or floors after missed shots like there is in the original. Again, a small thing but a lacking note of personality being lost.
- The map screens are weirdly quiet and have no sound or show much in the way of movement when you are traveling like in the original. Likewise there is no focusing on the world map. Another small difference but a lack of personality again.

I have been anticipating this release for so long now and find that this remake is very very lacking in all the charm the original had. I don't want to sound like an impossible to please fan, but the compounding lack of care and passion makes for a powerfully hollow and uninspired experience.

This is not the Front Mission 3 you loved and remembered from days past. This is a bastardization of one of my favorite games of all times. The horrible lighting where everything is so dark it's like they are using the shadows to hide the redesign of the Wanzers. The skill system had been changed making it a grind to just get skills now.
Status effects are overpowered for you and the enemy alike with constant stuns and confusion triggering almost every turn. Weapon balancing has been broken on the Grenade Launchers making them death traps.

The new soundtrack is just horrible as well. It is dull and lacks the accents of the original. I can't recommend this even die hard fans as you will be just disappointed and sad in the end. With a lot of community mods this could be a great game but until then hold off on purchasing.

I absolutely loved this game when it was on Playstation 1. back in 96-97? I still love it.