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Unleash the DVD capabilities

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This games sets ground to a new area, bringing many great animations (both 3D, DVD, and rendered) inside an RTS game with a touch of Japanese history. This game deserve those 5 stars because of its new way of bringing the animations.

I was impressed to see real-time video, with a touch of 3D rendered as well as 3D polygons at the same time!! That creates a touch of reality over the virtual 3D world and it looks great. I have to agree that I've seen animations that had a little bit more details over the character's face but the overall reality of those graphics plus the number of them are amazing.

I've also looked a reviews that talks about the repeating special features video and you can bypass them by pressing the triangle button. But something else that is interesting is that you can simply sit back and control the armies or you can zoom on a squad while they are fighting; bringing a different reality.

If you are still afraid of this game, it is at least a must-rent to see this kind of approach and the useful DVD features.

You gotta get this one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 65
Date: July 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. It runs smoothly with great graphics. It will keep you playing untill u beat it. If you have the money go out and get this one with your PS2

Charge and let them fall beneath my blade.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just loved this game. It's amazing graphics and cut scenes really draw you into the battle. It is easy to master, although at first it looks complicated. It was too short for my liking and followed a very set path. This is my biggest fault with the game. I would have prefered to have had to take the land province by province. Would have made for a longer game and given the player choice. There was no politics really either. It would have been nice to have been able to send emissaries to other lords. Or used ninja. But for all it's short comings I still had a blast playing it. Destroying an enemy unit and watching it's leader ride away in disgrace is alot of fun. Is it worth a buy? Probobly not. But rent it for sure and have a look at the ps2 graphical possibilities.

This game stands out from the crowd.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay is excellent. It doesn't get really any better. Koei did a great job with the animations and battles. The battles are truly amazing, and to know that you actually have control over them...wow. If you're looking for a game to show off the Playstation2's power, along with the graphics, don't look no further...this is it. I bought it thinking it was gonna be kinda slow and boring, but once you turn it on, you won't let the controller go for at least a few hours. (The whole game is so life-like that its like watching a "school video" of a war.) It also has actual footage from the war at the start, just like a movie. Buy it.

good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I found this game amusing, great graphics, interesting concept. I liked it a lot, I would reccomend this game to anyone who likes stratigy games.

Underrated and misunderstood

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is underrated. It is actually a great game that suffers a little from misguided expectations. Koei never makes games that are truly mainstream -- this game comes about as close as it does (except Dynasty Warriors, but those aren't designed by Koei).

The game gives people the wrong impression in the beginning, because the initial difficulty, I think, was made too easy. You can beat the game blindfolded if you play the starting game, and since you can't change the difficulty until after you've finished the game, people just think "oh, I finished the game -- no point in playing anymore". The difficulty level 5 (hardest) is actually quite challenging, and wins are no longer guaranteed if you don't play carefully. What they perhaps should've started out is 3, instead of 1. That might scare players away though, so it's a tough call.

There are also more than just five levels for each side. If you intentionally (or unintentionally) lose one of the important battles, you'll be led to a different battle line that can still win you the game. There are a total of three ways of winning the game for each side, so you can actually play 12 different battles for each side (with some overlapping). There's more to the game than what offers you in the superficial glance, but again, I think the initial ease of beating the game turned some people off thinking it's boring.

The movie can be a little annoying, but I think it's balanced with good gameplay that's almost chess like, like someone said. At the higher difficulty, a mistake could cost you the win and battles must be planned out (instead of just attacking like in the easy difficulty).

All in all, a great game that is a bit misunderstood and gives the wrong first impression. At 30 bucks, it's a great buy and I think more worth it than Kessen II.

One of the BEST GAMES EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Incredible game! Awesome graphics and great strategy. It does give people the wrong impression in the beginning, with the fairly-boring but nessicary tutorial. But once you get to the battles, be prepared to be blown away!

intro into rts

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yes the cutscences are repeatative but look past that and u see a bland rts,not to much strategy. Iwould of liked it better if it was a simulation of war. The game is give u story,give u the plan(which u cant change),puts u into war,rince repeat. Its a pretty short rts. It is addictive and fun so that justifys the score. Good game for begginers of the generation, like me.

kessen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i thought kessen was cool! the movies are really emotional and you can actually think you are commander of the eastern or western army.i like this game because the war councils and meetings you have.i already beat it and im looking forward to buying kessen2

great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think Kessen is a great strategic game.It seems annoying to begin with because there is only one track and the controls are fairly difficult. There is no way to know how your armies are going to fair and their is nothing to teach you before you plunge into the campaign. However after you finnish the campaigns the game starts to show its gameplay value. You can choose any of all the battles you fought in the campains to play again. Added to that you get to choose your side and the level of difficulty. As you replay the battles you start to get more comfortable with the game and you start to fidle with the wide variety of options you had but didn't have to take before. You start switching your generals around and changing their troop types and formation. You start making desisions in the war council instead of just skipping over it.

Here are a few comments about the game. The anoying part about the campaign is that between every major battle you have a tiny skirmish which is very uncustamizable. I hate the little skirmishes and i have never played them more than once. The graphics are great. It has a good storyline and its characters are bassed on actual people. When you are beating the enemy down you can sit back and look at your armies fight at the soldier level. You can even see your generals fight enemy generals or fight the enemy troops themselves (they don't just sit back and watch the battle). One of the fun things you can do after you have beaten the campaign is to fight the battle of Osaka again. It is fun to trounce superior numbers with relative ease. In this battle you are outnumbered 3to2 but if you set the difficulty level to 1 you can still beat them fairly easily. And what will make you realy feel proud is that your troops weren't actualy stronger soldier for soldier and you lost less than half of your troops. The feature that makes it not a game where you just send your guys against their guys is special maneuvers. Ranging from a volly to a canonade, this is what makes the game interesting. Its to much to explain right now but special manuevers realy add a lot of strategy to the game. And finaly whatever you do dont buy the strategy guide. I know more about the game than the guys who wrote it (Im not saying I know that much about the game I am saying they dont know squat about it) and it isnt very helpfull.

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