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#6 - Dynasty Warriors 7 (360/PS3)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox360/606311-dynasty-warriors-7
Before this, I hadn’t played a Dynasty Warriors game since 4. I always thought they were pretty fun, but not something I cared to buy every iteration of, so I skipped 5, and then I got into the next-gen console cycle late so I missed 6. ZFS then coaxed me into getting 7 and here we are. Dynasty Warriors games are always mindless, but in a good way. There’s always something satisfying about mowing down hundreds and hundreds of dudes with minimal effort. Because I had been away from the series for so long, the improvements with 7 seemed pretty massive to me. For one thing, everything looks a lot nicer. There’s no more random fog obscuring everything and the animations are a lot more fluid. There are also a lot more characters to choose from, as if the series needed anymore.
Another aspect of the game I really enjoyed was the story mode. I’ve always been fascinated by the RotTK story, and Dynasty Warriors 7 does a much better job of fleshing that out that any other previous game in the series. There’s a lot of cool cutscenes, and you get a good variety of characters to play as, even if they don’t all quite match up to the time periods they’re supposed to be alive. Conquest mode, on the other hand, is pretty hit or miss. There’s some cool levels in there, but I really do miss Free mode. There’s also a co-op mode I tried with Dante for like two levels and it really sucks. Very laggy and just kinda ‘whatever’. Oh well, can’t win ‘em all.
I don’t know that I’m going to continue buying into Dynasty Warriors games from here, it’s not the kind of game I have a desire to play constantly, but it was nice to come back to the series after a while and see how it had evolved. The core gameplay is still the game - and that’s good - but the technical improvements make it a more enjoyable experience.
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