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Solidly entertaining, but has been surpassed by competitors

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Onimusha 3 is a third person action game with a camera that is locked in place, providing 'cinematic' angles for the action. It is very reminiscent in this regard to its progenitors--the Resident Evil series--and competitors--Devil May Cry, and, more recently, God of War. Unlike the early Resident Evil games, and the previous two Onimusha games, the environments in this game are not pre-rendered. Even so, the backgrounds are quite pretty in this game, especially for a PS2 game, and the animations and character models are top notch for their time.
The story is a fairly convoluted tale of time travel and magical connections through space time, linking Paris of 2004 with Japan of the 5th century or so. You as the player take control of two characters (well, three, but two main characters), one a French police officer from 2004 who gets sent back to ancient Japan, and the other a famed warrior from Japan who has spent his life fighting the evil Genma lords. Those evil beings are threatening both worlds, past and present, and only through cross-time cooperation can the heroes save the day.
This rather unique and interesting method of setting up the story gave the developers the chance to put in place several time-jumping puzzles. Nothing too difficult, but at least you probably will not have seen them before in typical single-timeline games (ie most of them).
The real meat of the game is in the combat, and here Onimusha 3 does not quite live up to games in its genre that came before--the original Devil May Cry--or those that have come out since--God of War, and Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox. The combat is not bad at all, and is certainly more satisfying than the first Prince of Persia, for example. But it lacks the same level of buttery smooth responsiveness and quickness of Dante in Devil May Cry or Kratos in God of War.
Still, even with the above caveat, I can recommend Onimusha 3 for anyone who likes these type of action games. It is satisfyingly long, has only one truly irritating character (that little boy's voice drove me up the wall sometimes) in a cast that is otherwise quite excellent and made up of movie-level voice talent like Jean Reno, and should keep you occupied for a while. The normal mode of difficulty is not overly hard, and tough guys who eat Devil May Cry 3 and Ninja Gaiden for breakfast will want to up the difficulty when they start out.
A great ending to the series...if it is, indeed, the end...

Like killing things with swords? I sure do.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The story isn't too bad and the gameplay is very excellent. The cutscenes showed people getting brutally sliced by japanese demons so I thought that was pretty cool. A very nice samurai game.

Onimusha 3: Demon Siege

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A awesome game, the best in the Onimusha series, at least I think it is. Found it new here, arrived ahead of time and in excellent condition. Love playing this game.

The End at Last

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

if your a fan of the Onimusha series then I dont need to say anything but for thous that dont know wants. up this game is awsome from biginng to end stating with the opening cut sene to the final fight with Nobunaga O ya Oni fans Samanoska is back along with some new friends like the french actor Rene from Godzllia and the Specalist it the game is A must have for your ps2 and especaly for those are fans

Is that jean reno

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: April 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Is it me, or does the guy on the front of the case for Onimushu 3 look a lot like Jean Reno, the actor from "The professonal" and "Mission Impossible". I've checked everywhere but apparently he is not associated with the game. It does look like him though....right?

AWESOME game to play on the SONY PLAYSTATION 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Onimusha 3: Demon Siege is going to be a AWESOME game to play

I give it 5 Stars "Highly Recommended" Really WORTH TO BUY & play this on the Sony Playstation 2 game system

Capcom makings GREAT games for all 4 game system (Keep the good job up Capcom)

GREAT GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all that is jean reno on the cover of this game. I have played and beaten the first two onimusha games and I loved them So I hope this one doesn't dissapoint me.

what kind of trilogy is this??

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game wasn't as fascinating as other Onimusha games. Onimsusha:Warlords had it good times 'cause it was the first time we see Samonosuke in battle agains evil.
In Onimusha:Samurai's Destiny, a new young Samurai Jubei Yagyu rise to stop the evil Nobunaga.

In this final "chapter", players will be disappointed that only one of the classic samurai (Samonosuke) is in played, but Yubei isn't. Instead is replaced with some simple character.

I would suggest to rent this game first and find your own opinion about the game. If you're a Onimusha fan and just want to have for your private collection. I would think twice before purchasing it.

Better than its predecessors

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a sequel, "Onimusha 3: Demon Siege" works very, very well, being far more detailed and stroy-driven than either of its two somewhat shallow predecessors. As a standalone game, too, it mops the floor with those two previous games, in terms of playability and graphics.

Resuming the lead role of Oni, Samanosuke (from the first game) now finds himself unwillingly hopping across time (from 16th Century Japan to 21st Century Paris) in order to thwart yet another of Nobunaga's genbu-driven attempts to rule the world of Humans. He is aided in his quest by Jacques Blanc (a Special Forces Gendarme-type), Michelle (his fiancee) and a desperately annoying (if crucially necessary) Oni fairy named Ako.

The graphics are now all real-time, and camera pans and sweeps are far more dramatic and flexible than before, giving a much-needed sense of the Organic to the already-beautiful characters. For this game, too, the character graphics are now far more detailed and complex than before, and the insanely busy colour palette of previous games is now wisely toned down to allow that detail to show through. Visually it's definitely the best of the series, and "Onimusha 3" must be one of the best-looking adventure games on the PS 2 to date. The Paris sections are particularly impressive, blending contemporary cityscapes with Oni mythology with flair and ease.

Gameplay-wise not much has changed, the controls are immediately familiar to anyone with even the briefest of playtimes on either of its two predecessors, and the various tightenings and improvements really do come into their own later in the game. The difficulty level is somewhat easier, thanks to the inclusion of far more consumable health items than before, and a more simplified version of the combat system.

The real improvements come in the shape of a far more complex storyline. Now cut-scenes and (astounding) CGI movies interrupt the action with a story-driven regularity reminiscent of "Metal Gear Solid 2", and "Onimusha 3" is much improved because of it. Now there is a compelling and tense plot to forward the hitherto-repetitive action sequences (after all, this is just a side-scrolling beat-'em-up done in 3D realtime) and the player has a far better sense of purpose and affinity for the characters because of this.

My only complaint is that, in the wake of two beautiful-to-look-at, repetitive-to-play Prequels, the depth and innovation of "Onimusha 3" may go unnoticed. But I promise you, it's there, waiting to be uncovered.

All in all, another technically excellent offering from Capcom, and a worthy crown to the "Onimusha" series. Bigger, deeper and prettier than before, it will certainly satisfy the adventure cravings amongst us, and will almost definitely win new fans to the genre.

Highly recommended.

No jump button, No kick button

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Before I purchased this, I thought that it was going to be one of the best action games ever. After playing, I was disappointed. It's a very "AVERAGE" game, that doesn't have anything special to make it stand out from other games.

I found it very weird that there is no jump function. The only way to kill air-born enemies is to shoot them with a bow n arrow. This can be tedious since you have to stop and stand still, then use the lock on target button.

And since there is no jump, you can NOT jump in the air and perform hard landing attacks.

There is also no kick button. Kicks would have added a little more variety to the attacks.

You should buy God of War instead. It's a LOT more fun and exciting than onimusha 3.

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