Dynasty Warriors is a franchise that has been beaten against peoples
skulls with the lackluster release of the same gameplay with barely
noticeable tweaks. This game is no exception.
Dynasty warriors plays much like every other dynasty warriors game. You
have a block, an attack, charge attack, and a musou attack. You run
through hordes of armies killing heros and officers along the way based
on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novels. You still have your basic
musou, free, and challenge modes that you would come to expect from the
series. Musou mode now has specific story lines for each character so
it does get a tad bit more personal.
The attacks have been tweaked as you no longer can shoot your bow, and
instead of combining regular and charged attacks you just have each
button have its own list of combos which is both odd and good all at
the same time. Most officers have now been fitted for more calvary
style attacks so horses are now more useful than just a form of
transportation. You can also now swim and climb ladders, swimming is
not so useful, but you'll find that ladders are valuable in taking out
enemy strongholds.
You can still unlock horses, and weapons, but they aren't specific so
all of the items feel really generic as they don't really coincide with
the story.
The sounds really don't get you into the killing mood. Its really just
not high quality and doesn't elaborate any sense of battle. The music
still has that heavy metal feel, but it isn't present throughout the
game. It takes itself to seriously and tries to sound more epic than it
actually is.
Unfortunately this current gen game looks like it could be on a last
gen system. The graphics in their entirety just look bland. It really
just looks as if there was no effort put into even placing a new layer
of paint on the franchise.
Hardcore DW fans will play this as we have all these years, but its
getting to the point where DW is just becoming bad and not worth
playing anymore. Especially not worth a new $60 game
