Final Fantasy VIII (ファイナルファンタジーVIII, Fainaru Fantajī Eito) is a console and computer role-playing game created by Square Co. for the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Windows-based PCs. It is the eighth installment of the main Final Fantasy series, the second to be released for the PlayStation, and the second to be ported to Windows. The game's story focuses on a group of young mercenaries who are drawn into an international conflict, and seek to protect the world from a sorceress manipulating this war for her own purposes. (Wikipedia)