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Dynasty Warriors 6

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I don't have too much previous experience in the Dynasty Warriors series, but I can tell you that this game is pretty similar to the other DW games I have played. You start out with 3 choices of characters to play their story. More unlock as you progress. I've been playing the game on normal so far and you actually have to pay more attention to the whole battlefield more than I have in the past games. You have to watch out for other generals a lot. My coworker farted near me and I have to evacuate.

Overall fun experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Having played a few Dynasty Warriors and similar titles before, I knew what to expect from this game, and it met my expectations completely. Dynasty Warriors is just good, fun hack-and-slash game play with just enough character leveling to keep it interesting for a long time.

As with previous games, the story is broken down into separate characters, each with their own storyline. Until you level up a fair amount, some of the later battles in each story can be very difficult, but leveling up with free play is just as fun as playing through each story.

One thing I miss from the earlier title (either 4 or 5, can't remember which one) is the selection of personal guards, which level up along with your main character. Leveling up a warhorse in DW6 is fun, but not quite as fun as leveling several other secondary characters. Leveling a warhorse also requires you to use the horse a lot in each level, and I never liked the combat while on a horse as much.

The Good:

* Graphics - DW6 looks great, and the environments are more interesting than in previous games.
* Ladders - the addition of climbing offers another fun option when getting around.
* No lag - Previous games (PS2) had a LOT of lag. After 20+ hours with this game, I have not encountered any lag, and I love it.
* Replay value - with so many characters, each with a separate story line, and the variety of challenge modes, there is a lot of fun gameplay here.

The Bad:

* No Japanese audio - the English voice acting isn't horrible, but I would prefer the option of Japanese dialog w/ subtitles
* Two-player split-screen cannot be adjusted - This is my one big problem with the game. The screen is split horizontally, and on a wide screen tv this leaves each player with a very wide but very short field of view. This might work for some people, but I find it hard to see what I need to see at times, and I feel the game should have the option to split the screen vertically as well.

These are two minor bad points that do not detract much from the overall experience. I rate the game 5 stars for fun, and 4 stars overall because of these missing options. If you enjoy hack-and-slash game play, or even button-pressing madness, you will find a lot of fun in Dynasty Warriors.

An expert's review on Dynasty Warriors series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played Dynasty Warriors (Shin Sangoku musou) since Shin Sangokumuso 2 which is DW3 I believe since the English vers uses a slightly different numbering system. Now since I don't go back to Asia as often and own a Xbox360 instead of PS3, I bought the American version (and i hate the english voice actors and scripts).

The game is what you would expect if you are a follower of the series: a lot of button smashing, one-man-team ownage, and a fantasy dream for people who follow the Romance of Three Kingdom (RoTK) story. The key differences in this version and previous ones are:
1. Renbu system which allows you to perform "unlimited" chain combos. However, I find this addition pretty boring because you really just press one button and you can do as many hits as you want if you do it correctly. In the past, you only increase your max hit combos when you upgrade to a better weapon, but now you rely on your Renbu rank to perform different styles of attacks. This is kind of frustrating because in the beginning stages, you will only have Renbu Rank 2 and your attacks will look the same over and over again.
2. Character leveling system which lets you pick which skills you want to ugprade. This is actually a very nice addition because it lets you customize your warrior with different skills. You can pick skills that are more suitable to your fighting style.

Aside from those two major changes, there are many minor changes & additions such as climbing wall, weapon selection, horse selection, and etc. In general, the maps and characters are almost the same as DW5 ...BUT the difficulty of DW6 is a lot harder than DW5 in my opinion. I have been struggling with even normal mode for some characters. It is a lot easier now to absorb major damage from enemy officers and if you are not careful, you can get KOed rather easily. For regular players, you would probably utiltize the basic 2 button combos and the Musou attacks the most, but in this version, you really need to use guard and dodge(roll on ground) more often.

The game's replay value is high as usual and I haven't tried the 2p coop mode yet which is probably why I died so many times in mid-battle. 2p gameplay should be a lot easier because you can gang up on bosses and perform stronger linked musou attks.

Overall, you will not be disappointed with this game if you liked previous DW games. Expect the usual contents from a DW game and adjust to the changes... remember to save often!

HUGE let down on Dw6

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Dynasty Warriors 6 has finally came out! But there are alot of cons and pros about this game. Don't get me wrong. Dynasty Warriors is a great game, but i was disappointed about this game.

If you are new to the series, This game takes place in anicent china. back in AD. Their alot of small kingdoms but three come out the strongest. One is Shu (green team) followed by Liubei. Shu is mostly a people government (Democratic). Personally, i like shu. Next is Wu (Red team) Wu is govern by Sun Jian, Sun Ce and Sun Quan. I don't know what kind of government they are. Last is Wei (blue team) followed be Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Rui, Cao Fang and Cao Huan. I don't know what kind of government they are either. You play whichever character from either kingdom and watch how their story unfolds. It's an hack and slash game, so be prepare for anything.

First, The game is great! The graphics, the characters, New weapon design and the new renbu system is great.There is a new duel event. When your battling an officer, a gong will ring and the people around you will form a circle. Pretty much fight to the death. Also the rebu system is good. Every time you kill someone, your rebu increases and so does your attack defense etc.. The graphics are improved and so is the camera system. The music is good and the detail of the new and improved weapons are amazing! There are new skills, horses and levels also in this game. The new duel event is awesome! They fix up everything! you will enjoy this game! The overall game is great but there are ALOT of cons..

The cons- They took out so far that i counted three officers. Pang De (Wei) Sun Ce's Wife (Wu) and my second favorite character Jiang Wei (Shu)
Not even the create your own warrior :/. There is ALOT of people that you can't play their Musuo mode like Cao Pi, Ling Tong, Wei Yan, Yue Ying, Xiao Qiao,Zhang He, (I can go on) So mad as i was, i went to koei website to complaint. Apparently, They don't accept complaints or suggestions (go figure). Some of the character's weapons don't even power up. For example Sun Ce, His weapon stays the same but the name changes. Big whoop. Also he has the same moves as the officers that have the same face. Half of the characters have the same moves as the warlords,warriors, and generals (The officers who have the same face).

Anyways, buy the game if you want! it's great but koei seem like they made this game in a rush.

Tasty but not filling

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game but not altogether the epic I hoped it would be. I like the new characters designs and the different fighting styles and all that. Being able to take on hundreds of people at once and rake up a thousand kills on a regular basis is pretty cool. The graphics are brilliant but, I don't know, it just seems to be missing a lot of the content that Dynasty Warriors 4 had. Not to mention characters. Not only does this game feautre no new Characters but it subtracts from those already existing. Where is Meng Huo? Not in this game. Granted I haven't unlocked every acheivement but still if he was in the game there would be a nanman level or you would see him somewhere. (And why even have a Zhuge Liang Storyline without the nanman campaign? It would be like a Robert E. Lee Story without the battle of Gettysburg. Kinda lame.)

How is it that this game has less characters than the previous version. Generally the series gets more characters as it progresses not fewer. Not only that but of the few that remain, only a handful have musou story modes which is kinda lame(sure it would probably be hard to make storylines and movies for each character but that doesn't mean I have to like it) You can play the less popular characters in free mode but it just isn't the same.I tried creating my own storyline for Yuan Shao by having him play through a bunch of free mode battles but realized I couldn't since the battle of Guan Du only has two sides in this game. Cao Cao's and Lu Bu's. (Lu Bu wtf? How did he get involved in that battle) Speaking of Lu Bu, unlocking him is the only reason to play through half of the musou modes. Some of the charcters aren't as cool as the other, in my opinion.

Getting over the characters, or lack of them, and onto the actual gameplay the game plays well. The new renbu system is interesting once you figue out what it is. Although the same basic attack, charge attack scheme is in play, charge attacks are separtate from your main attacks, meaning that you can't put together any super charge attacks like in previous games. The charge attack looks the same whether you press it first or use it as a follow up to a series of regular attacks. That means that once you get unlimited renbu you don't even need to use the charge attack. You can just hammer on the x button. The charge attack is only really useful for breaking enemies blocks. Speaking of enemies, they are a bipolar lot. On the one hand the regular enemies do almost nothing but stare at you while you hack them to pieces while the officers while hand you your buttchecks. Also certain officers will get angry and then they do tremendous damage, enough to kill you in three or four hits. When they get into this state they glow with a flame. I've come to refer to these powerhouse's as 'flamers'. When you see a deadly flamer you need to save the game unless you want to risk losing all the exp you have gained in the battle. Unlike some of the games in the series you can't save your exp from a failed attempt. Sometimes free mode is the only way to get your chosen hero past a certain point.

Really though, long story short, while I like the game I would have liked it more if more characters were in it. Maybe they will fix this when they come out with Dynasty Warriors 6: Xtreme legends.

Dynasty Warriors 6

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are awesome! It is a combination of some of the earlier versions with the ability to win even better weapons that do greater damage! Definitely worth getting!

My annual fix has arrived!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Before I get to the game, I'll first let you know where I'm coming from.

I am a Dynasty Warriors junky.

With the out of the way, on to the game!

First, let's get the bad out of the way.

There are only 17 Musou. That means that there is a large likelihood that your favorite character has no story mode to speak of, and that the only way to play them, is to go to free mode, pick a board, and have at it. To make it sting a bit more, as far as I've seen, the spare characters don't even have unique events, as in earlier DW's. And, because having one wound isn't enough, I'll add another. Most of the characters are copies. In other words, Diao Chan and Zhen Ji have the same weapon and moveset. And they aren't alone in this respect. Since you are now holding both of your arm wounds, I'll go ahead and punch you straight in the face with this, some characters were taken out. Yes, even though the makers had no problem just copying weapons and movesets, they still removed characters. The ones I missed the most were the Nanman. I always liked their stages, because they were so different from the rest, what with the jungle setting, elephants, and enemies that actually dressed different, as opposed to just wearing distinguishing colors.

I'm not really a fan of the Renbu system. Not that I'm against them trying something new, it's just that I don't really like what they tried. Essentially, you have a bar that builds up the more you attack. When it fills, you go to the next level, and your character gets a few more moves added to his/her chain. There's also a third level, and then an infinite level (or as I call it, level 4). If you don't attack, then the bar slowly depletes. Also, there are certain attacks that immediately lower the bar, such as rocks thrown at your head.

The point of it, I suppose, was to keep you fighting. However, it comes off as an artificial way of doing it. After all, there is nothing else to do in a DW game, so why did they feel the need to force me to perform the only task there is to perform in the first place? Also, if you get a horse with the ability "Renbu Gait", then it's all irrelevant. As long as you're on the horse, your bar wont deplete. That sort of forced me to stay on the horse for all travel purposes. I guess I just don't like time limits (why there still is one for every level, I don't know), but there you have it.

Now let's get to the good.

Slow down is a thing of the past, and that's good, because I have never seen this many characters on screen at once. There are many times where I simply had no idea where I was in the crowd. Which is a good time to swing your weapon.

Most of the characters have gotten major make-overs. Of course, whether you like them or not will simply be too subjective for any reviewer, but I personally liked a lot of them.

One thing I don't see mentioned is that the game claims to have motion captured actual martial artists for many of the moves. I think this is a major cool point. It may take some (but not all) of the more fantastic moves out of the game, but it's a fair trade. Characters like Lu Xun make it feel like your in control of a kung-fu movie.

Even though there are only 17 Musou, the ones that are there are much improved, with scenes before every fight, and sometimes after, as well. If/when they finally flesh out the rest of the cast (DW:7?) then going through the separate musous will be quite the experience.

A couple more points I want to make before rapping up. In DW Orochi, you were given the ability to whistle for your horse, which was a HUGE quality-of-life improvement. That has been carried over to DW:6. So, if you hop off, and fight your way through half of the level, you can just press down on the d-pad, and your horse will run up in short order.

And then there's the terrain. The landscape is much improved, and feels more alive. Now, if you go up a hill, you don't have to travel back down, you can just jump off the side. And if you ever wanted to jump from on high while riding your horse, and fall on the group of people unfortunate enough to be called "enemies", then now you can. They will also cower and scream about being ambushed if done right. Nice.

In the end, the differences in this game are enough to check out if you're a fan of the series. However, if you are patient, I would actually suggest waiting for the next chapter, or to see if they add any downloadable content, as this game does feel like a trial run, before the fully fleshed out version, what with the lack of musou, copy-cat characters, and flat removal of characters. As for me, I enjoy it greatly, and will continue to do so.

great game for Dynasty Warriors' fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been collecting all Dynasty Warrios for PS2 from series 1 up to 5, and now Dynasty Warriors 6 in xbox. I totally love it.
The only thing I dislike is the apprerance of Lu Bu is ugly (supposed to be very handsome guy), and the map is too small.

Koei Hits The Mark With This One!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've generally liked Koei games from way back when they made games for the SNES. I'm pretty much a long time fan. I was pleasantly surprised with the recent installment of the Dynasty Warrior series. In the beginning I noticed the change in how many of the characters look and their weapons. Liu Bei looks radically different as well as the leader of Wu, Sun Jian. Wei warload Cao Cao looks pretty much the same. It's still the same basic hack and slash, but the enemy NPC's are a lot smarter than they were on previous incarnations. The game is a little more difficult to play through than it was before. There are newly designed levels and a new design system for leveling up that was utilized by Final Fantasy X. A definite buy for Koei fans.

6th game holds up to its name.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Be prepared to spend hours upon hours with this game. If you have ever played a previous iteration of this series you will know what to expect. As an added bonus if you pay attention to the storyline you will learn alot about Chinese history.

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