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Oct 28 2005
Dynasty Warriors Review
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| Summary: A pretty decent game that is more strategical than the others, but has a few big problems.
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For a launch title, just being a game that wasn't racing or sports was pretty cool, but the positive parts end there.
While Dynasty Warriors does have similar graphics to its home counterparts, the whole game feels like a weaker experience. Character models are jaggier, the draw distance is much worse, and the game suffers horrible lags at times.
I have more than once found myself geting angry at the game for slowing down and causing me to miss the opponent, which at some times has even effected the outcome of the game.
While I have to appreciate the fact that it was my first experience with a fully 3D portable game (as this was my first PSP game) the fact that the textures sometimes temporarily dissappear is somewhat annoying.
Overall, Koei should have worked more to make a game that runs good and looks good, not looks good but runs bad or runs good but looks bad.
The sound is one of the few strong points of this game. It has the standard Dynasty Warriors music which is a mixture of guitars and flutes, and overall sounds very good on the PSP.
The effects of weapons and "musou" powerups sound as good as ever, making you think you are playing the home version, if it weren't for Koei's mistakes on the graphics.
The only really bad thing about these sounds is that there are no voices whatsoever, which helped alert you of sneak attacks in the home version, since I would often get too involved to notice a small text bar.
Controls are another one of the few strong points about the game. It controls much like the home version despite the PSP's limitations.
Analog stick controls, dpad selects generals, and the face buttons are various attacks and jumps. The shoulder buttons are used for ranged attacks and other functions which I never really used.
In all, it's a pretty easy game to control, now if only Koei worked on the rest of the game, this would be awesome.
Here is another thing that brings down the entire game. The load times are often 30-40 second long when loading a battlefield, and all this loading does is bring you to the map and equipment screen. Then it's a 5-10 second load for each sector, which is about 1-5 minutes long depending on many factors.
Not only is this somewhat annoying, but after all that loading, you still get a laggy game.
Dynasty Warriors is slightly more strategical this time around, which works out good and bad.
Pros
• It's not the same exact game like all of the other DW games were.
• The game requires a little more thinking this time.
• Different environments change the fate of battle.
Cons
• Annoying load times for short battles.
• Smaller battles and battlefields.
• Less "free-roaming" during the battle.
Now while this is pretty good, the game is also backed up with over 200 generals and 42 characters which you can unlock. Not that you'll really bother to do it all, as the game's ending is always the same with each character and the levels often repeat themselves. Not to mention the fact that most of the generals are very similar.
Overall, this game will be appealing for a few weeks, but will lose it's charm and you won't really play it too much, unless you hate the excess of sports and racing games on the PSP.
Since PSP games don't really seem to be dropping in price, I wouldn't suggest buying this game new. If you are a fan of the series, or just want a game to occasionally waste time playing, by all means, go out and buy a used copy. If not, then maybe you should rent it first, as it is a decent game, but is filled with alot of problems, most likely due to laziness in developement.
In terms of PSP games of this genre, you might as well wait until Kingdom of Paradise or Samurai Warriors comes out, unless you desperately need it.
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this game is up for 10 dollars in kb toys store i belive.... but in stores only
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oh and including
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Dynasty Warriors
Gretzky Hockey
Spider-Man 2
Tony Hawk Underground Remix
World Tour Soccer
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Well then, people should go out and buy it then, it's woth $10.
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Your welcome. I figured I should start writing reviews for older games, just to tell people how they have held up over the ages.
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I've got it, but didn't pay $10 for it. :/ Good review, and nice point about the graphics, like this game the least out of my collection, up there with ape escapeedited: Dec 05 2005
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