Dynasty Warrior: Strikeforce

Yup, its one of the newer games in Koei's Warriors serieses...(Orochi, Dynasty and Samurai)

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce is based on Dynasty Warriors 6 (which is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms novels, which I have yet to play. In fact, the only other game in the Warriors series that I played was Warriors Orochi. Although it's based on DW6(no...why take out Xing Cai!!), its nothing like it...hell, its nothing like the other Warriors games....

Firstly, its more of an RPG than a hack-and-slash game. There's no army on your side, no officers, no one what so ever, you're on your own. So you're up on your own against a large number of guys who respawns without limit. There's no base where you can kill the base captain to stop the flow of troops. The map is divided into section, a quick loading everytime you enter that section. And there's equipment too. Its not like previous Warriors game, in that you have a sub weapon, and you can change your weapons. E.g, you can see Zhao Yun wielding a sword. Though his main weapon, Spear, is fixed, the subweapon can be changed.

Secondly, the AI is freakingly IMBA, since the game is designed for four players playing simultaneously. And the units can FLY, (float...as its called ingame...) and theres no way to control the camera aside from the D-pad which is kinda worthless. Though there is a secret to defeating this IMBA AI on single player. First, find a spear character, or equip a guy with a spear. Make sure it has the Arbor Orb(poison)...when attacking, jump, press TRIANGLE like hell, since the spear's reach is longer, it will likely collide with the opponents. When they jump nearer, quickly land, by pushing down the analog and pressing TRIANGLE. And then jump when they land..this way, they cant touch you, while poison and your berserk attacks are doing the job.

Thirdly, you can use MUSOU attacks like before. Instead, you have to be "AWAKENED" to use your musou attacks, and the musou attacks are I think random...sometimes its swinging the spear in arcs, other times, its charging at a guy... I think the AWAKENED thing is ridiculous...since when did Zhao Yun (guy in poster) have ice sticking out of him? Since when did Sima Yi glowing in Blue colour??

Finally, the storyline is in itself ridiculous... it follows the novel more than the actual history, and those who didnt fight, like Diao Chan and Yue Ying, ended up fighting...and there's a giant Tiger called Bi Xie, and Dragon called Tian Lu, phoenixes and a bunch of other myth things...what the hell happened to DW???

But those aside, and shutting an eye to previous DW, or rather thinking of DW: Strikeforce as Strikeforce, unrelated to DW, that way, its actually fun...I've only been playing for 2 days, and Im almost finished....wow...Im really good....(lol)