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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
