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WORST GAME EVER!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: June 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I played Dynasty Warriors 4 I thought the game was great and one of the best I ever played.(On my friends X-box) So I thought I'd buy DW4XL and get the original an an extra feature while I am at it. So I go home and play it and get three crappy new features only. Some stupid xtreme mode where you start with a crappy character and get absolutely NO health in the level. You get a stupid legend mode which has ONE level for each weak character and your experience doesnt travel over to xtreme mode. And arena mode which was the same as the old game. Plus, you dont get musou mode or free mode which was EXTREMELY lazy of Koei. It is extremely deceiving when you buy it and makes you think that it has all the features of the old one and new features but instead it just has 3 useless, stupid games. This is easily one of the stupidest games I have ever wasted my money on. I am going to return this and get the original as soon as possible. Don't waste any money on this.

Be warned.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: January 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have Dyansty Warriors 3 and I though I mine as well get a new one sience I like it.

I bough DW4:XL and though it was preaty good at first glance. Turn out that only half the feature are there unless you have DW4 to go along with it. It truely is a "expansion."

It would be a 4 or 5 with DW4 to go with it, but without it there just isn't a whole lot to do. Even if you have DW4 the convient task of proving you have it involves making the proper selections from DW4:XL, then opening the PS2 drive, putting in DW4, doing more stuff, opening the PS2 drive a 2nd time, putting in DW4:XL then doing more stuff... THEN you can play with the extra features. Perhaps the the companies that repair PS2 drives cut a deal with them to implement this less than convient feature... (Just kidding :)

Alone this game is a 2. Due to them trying to hide the fact that it can't stand completly on its own though, I only give it 1 star. I'm seriously considering taking my game into a local store that does trade-ins and exchanging this 30$ game for about 5$ worth of in store credit.

Wow this game sux!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 43
Date: August 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In the midst of my farting in the isle of the video game store i came across dynasty warriors 4 xl. Ohh i thought to myself, this sounds cool. Well, ladies and gentlemen it isn't!!!! The graphics suck and i even look more like a chinese warrior than these stupid imposter samurai wannabes. I hate the weapons, the characters, and most of all the people who have dumbed the American public by producing this game. I wish every copy of this game made was burned. The end.

gammers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably the most fun game that i have ever played in my whole life. Take it from me Im 35 years old and I suggest you do what I did and buy the game

Dynasties r amazing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i have rented and played many DW games. I love how u usually go around and help your friends in need. I mostly have loved them because of the coop mode. In this u have 42 stages for legendz mode so you will probably be wrapped up in it for awhile. If I was looking for a good slash game i would get this one

Why????

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i dont seem to understand why there isnt musou mode and free mode why do we have to load it from dw4.whys xtreme mode not for 2 players.whys trained up character from xtreme mode doesnt carry over to legend mode.This game will be extremely entertainning if it doesnt have all these stupid stuff.

Dynasty Warriors 4

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't the best, but it is a very good game. However, it's not like a sports game or racing game, etc., because once you beat this, you don't want to ever play it. That may not be the same for everyone, but to most, it is. The 1 and 2 player mode, where you work together to win, is very fun. Nevertheless, the 1 vs 1 (2 player mode) is not that cool. So, i overall rate this game a 4 out of 5. However, the XL version is much more promising and probably a 5 star game.

As tough as the first XL, but more well-thought out

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 39 / 40
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played DW4:XL for a solid day now, and I must confess that, wow, this is tough!
After complaints of the difficulty of DW3:XL, I thought that KOEI had given in to das man, and DW4 seemed much easier than either of its predecessors. In fact, I could (and did) play through the game on hard level with EVERY character, starting with INITIAL stats. No more, though, heh heh
If you didn't like the first XL, don't bother with this one. The Archers have returned and are as cheap as ever, and charged officers can lay even the best players low in a matter of seconds. Still, for those who enjoyed DW3:XL, you'll find a lot here.
Each character has a "Legend" mode, which is one level devoted to that character alone. I was quite happy with these in general (e.g. Jiang Wei must hold off the Wei army while keeping his stupid emperor, Liu Chan, from surrendering the city; Lu Xun attempts to navigate Zhuge Liang's Stone Sentinel Maze, fighting off the ambushes and traps along the way). The player is rated on how well he does during the level, and higher ratings (I think) can net new (level 11) weapons and higher level items. But man, is it tough!
Also, an extreme mode has been added. Here a player chooses one character and (with initial data and weapon) must survive a series of fictitional "Missions". There are no meat buns or the like to be found on these levels; you must buy such items with the points you accumulate during your travels. This mode is pretty fun, but I found it a tad too easy for my taste.
Of course, you can load old DW4 data and play through Musou and Free modes, but the real fun here is the "Legends" mode. The 42 new levels alone are worth the price of admission, IMHO.
BUT, if you were frustrated by the ridiculous difficulty of the previous XL ofering, DON'T BUY THIS ONE! No shame; at times, I wonder if expert difficulty is meant for fun or suffering myself!

An Awesome Upgrade!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 19
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

KOEI has done it again. They have managed to upgrade another Dynasty Warriors game into a masterpiece. This XL upgrade is wonderful. With XL all of the characters and boards are unlocked for you, so if you still have not unlocked some, this will do it for you. There are different modes to play with that were not on XL 3.

There is a LEGEND mode, which each character has a limiting factor, and does a board which is a "reenacment" of their life. It is very interesting. You also have the chance of finding an 11th level weapon, which I have not done so yet.

The boards are much more difficult, if you thought XL 3 was hard, then you have seen nothing. The challenge is not in hacking and slashing, it is in the storyline. It changes everytime you play the SAME board. Keeping your superior officer alive is very difficult at times, and trying to keep your teams morale up, is even harder. Some boards need to be played with two players, especially if you are trying to obtain 10th level weapons.

The graphics are great, but the same as DW4. This upgrade makes for some long challenging hours in front of your television. I would recommend that you not have school or work before starting, because this game is addicting indeed.

'Xtreme' indeed!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game is a great addition to Dynasty warriors 4. I got it for Christmas and have been playing it pretty much non stop. The main attraction is the ability to get level eleven weapons although unless you have help from the internet and a buddy willing to join in then getting the weapons will be almost impossible. It's no walk in the park even with aid. Let me pass on a trick I learned from the internet. Set the difficulty level to expert(the level required to get the weapon) then quit and set the level to novice then start a new game. Hit start and select at the same time to quit without saving and then continue your original game. I tried this and it didn't seem to work at first but although the difficulty is not novice it is not expert either, the enemies are slightly less aggressive so you can kill them easier.

The second best thing about this game is the Xtreme mode where you get to roam the land finding items and killing random officers and recruiting others to join your band, buying items and food between levels to keep yourself alive. The best moment comes when you can claim a kingdom for yourself. It doesn't seem to do much for you though. It only gives you a discount on goods when you shop there. If I'm a king then I want all my stuff to be free. As with the rest of the game this gets very hard especially since there is a somewhat severe shortage of food(I once spent 11000 gold on a meat bun!) You will also have to defend your kingdom every once in a while(if you live that long)by keeping your officers from being killed.

All in all, this is a worthy purchase even if you don't have the original game. For me the Xtreme mode alone is worth the thirty bucks but you should definitely buy if you have the first game(although having to keep changing discs every time you want to play the first game with level eleven weapons is a pain)

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