Samurai Warriors

In an effort to rekindle everything we loved about Dynasty Warriors, without being redundant, Koei introduced to us a new game utilizing the same fighting engine as the DW series, Samurai Warriors. Much like its predecessor, we are taken to a historical period of weapons and warfare, although it's no longer in Ancient China, but in Feudal Japan now. I was mainly inspired to purchase the game because I'm an enormous fan of the Dynasty Warriors series, and I knew this title would be just as good, if not better.

While not identical to Dynasty Warriors, it's virtually the same concept, although the game has become a bit less of a hack and slash now, and requires you to clear various missions around a map for best performance during a stage. I personally enjoy most of the missions, they give you more of an outline as to what you need to accomplish and where to go, but at the same time, it gives you less opportunity to rack up a nice number of KO's, which the series has always...

THE GOOD:
The Characters
the stages
the moves

THE BAD:
The castle stages
the 2p musou
the female characters are kinda weak

SUMMARY:
A pretty good game and the characters are pretty fast. The moves are good and easy to combo with. The stages are kinda cool because you have missions to do and it gives you exp and you get stronger. So the characters are fast to max out. The only things I don't like is the castle stages because you have to run around in a maze trying to get to a stairway. You have to do that for 4 times until you reach the last one and defeat the commander there. The 2p musou is not that good because if I have red health than my friend don't charge his side of musou bar. The female characters are pretty weak and you have to pass their storymode to get strong generals like Nobunga Oda and Keiji Maeda

THE GOOD:
Refreshing change of location and time period
Uses the same engine from Dynasty Warriors
More RPG-ish in building up characters

THE BAD:
Stupidly and needlessly difficult
Fire only affects you which is ridiculous
2 player musou attack

SUMMARY:
This is a long review, you have been warned. =P

After 4 games and 2 expansions for Dynasty Warriors Koei decided for a change of location and time period from 2nd Century China to 16th Century Japan. This means that there's all sorts of new names to learn for people and battles. But Nobunaga Oda will be a familiar name to some people who've played the Omunisha series, otherwise unless you are well educated in this period of Japanese history then it's another learning curve.

So at first you might be a bit disillusioned after having played so much Dynasty Warriors that you don't know things off by heart. But although the characters may...

THE GOOD:
-New characters
-Interesting story
-Chaos mode is actually hard

THE BAD:
-New combo system
-Castle levels
-Missions inside missions

SUMMARY:
I found this game to be pretty good, and although there was so many great new things, some new ideas really bring it down. The story is now 1400 years later, in Feudal Japan. This is interesting seeing how they have muskets, castles, and new technology. Sadly, the musketeers fire way too fast, and the new castle levels are far too tedious. I highly doubt any sane ruler would build his castle like the way in the game. They should've just called it a maze. The new characters are nice, but there's only 15. This can be changed however, with the new Create-A-Warrior mode. You can create up to 15 CAW's. Unfortunately, you can only choose the model, so your not able to customize. Koei also implemented NPC's with unique models. While that's nice, we should get...

THE GOOD:
The characters are cooler than the Dynasty Warriors, the hard mode was actually hard..Chao's is a real challenge..well unless you know how to use Kuinochi, Noh's second outfit, the stories of the characters, and finally it was based on Feudal Japan instead of Feudal China...

THE BAD:
Oichi, Goemon, Nobanaga looks like Cao Cao, Ranmaru looks like a female in the first form..but really is a male, the seiges on castle got teadious, Oichi's second outfit..she looks like freaky rat...:/ finally the Muskets...those things get on your nerve so much on Chaos...>.<

SUMMARY:
Well this game was a alot of fun for me and my friend John, we spent more time on thie than we did than Dynasty Warriors 3. We took the time to build up our characters to the max, the highest items, and highest weapons...well everyone except Oichi and Goemon..those two were orrible characters...Goemon is alright but just looks...

THE GOOD:
random castle generator,great detail, great story line,and accurcy on the JP history. great voies acting

THE BAD:
how hard it seams to just make your own chacter. not that many levels. 2player musou does not work enless both of you have it fully cargered and it work at the same time so usly lose musou. the alliy troops and offercer are still not agressive and end up traving all over the map for a guy how say's that he's going to die.

SUMMARY:
This is a must buy. I loved the DW series and this one fits in just as good.it is difficult to make your own officer, you to do all this traning and you cant save so if you fail the trials then you have to start all over. other than that the game is good and looks good to. like the charcater abilitys where they can be upgrated and also bought. and the story line is great and works great with the real jp history.I also like the new vs mode where its army vs army,not...

THE GOOD:
New features, charcters, enemys.

THE BAD:
Same style of gameplay as DW Series.

SUMMARY:
KOEI Corparation released a few weeks ago Saumrai Warriors for the Playstation 2 System.

At first glances of the box cover, it surpizing looks very simular to the KOEI's Dynesty Warriors Series. Me being a DW(s) fan, I'd was eager to see how this one would compare to them, and see if I would enjoy it.

Gameplay:
The gameplay of samurai warriors is much like dynasty warriors. You screen view is in a 3th person view, and your on a huge battlefield with alot foes and allies, a health bar, Ko count, etc. Within the game, your tasked to do certian missions to complete the charcters stage. Weather it was defeating a certian foe, or vanishing enemys, it was the good old style of play that I liked in the DW Series. However there are new features that set this apart from others. New things inculded are new...

THE GOOD:
Well this game's best feature is that it's got all the good parts of the DW games with some new things of it's own to make it unique and different. The characters are all extremely creative, and diverse. What may look like very few at first glance turns out to be alot more as you play through the stories of 15 differen't and creative soldiers of old japan. As usual the majority of the characters are real, and are mostly true to their real-life characters. Most characters are likable in different ways. One of the more satisfying things to know is that unique characters for a sequel already make appearances with their own designs and characteristics. The stories of each character are much shorter than those in Dynasty warriors (5 missions). But each battle has more depth to it, as well as the character's status growth. Your character will gain points in battle that you can invest in improvements in varying things, from the range of your attack, to the...

THE GOOD:
New characters with a fresh new feel

THE BAD:
The time limits in the stage make you rush through the stages.

SUMMARY:
Finally after the long wait and also the delay the game Samurai Warriors is out.

This game is receiving lots of bad reviews because of the repetitive-ness of the game. Well the DW (soon to be SW) will be like that. It is supposed to be repetitive and i found these games to be fun if you have a rest in between and start again after an hour or so.

Everything is pretty similar to the DW series, also produced by Koei.

To me the game does not get repetitve and i love it

Gameplay 4/5:
The gameplay is excellent in Samurai Warriors. The controls are the basic Square for Attack Triangle for Charge etc. You go around killing people and it's just plain fun and enjoyable to take out stress on the small little people.

You will also come to find the castle...

THE BAD:
same game engine

SUMMARY:
When I first saw the game, I knew what I was looking at. It was a less than original Dynasty Warriors in Japan by Koei. Koei, as usual, rolled in one more game with the same gameplay with totally different scenarios from a different country (like it did with its Nobunaga no Yabou and Genghis Khan). The idea looks totally bleak to me and the claims of it being on a new level from dynasty warriors simply makes me yawn.

What makes me buy this series was that boredom was killing me. I didn't figured out it could dragged me from the graves and worked on it day and night. The graphics is pretty much the same, the game engine was a big setback. Then when I was playing the game, the fat guy threw me off my footing like I never tried before in DW series.

The fat guy, was actually a squad leader type known as Sumo. Uniquely, he was appealing to me as a new difficulty level in the game. Yes the game...