![]() ![]() By gathering and spending resources to develop your fledgling nation’s infrastructure, you eventually expand into other regions. It’s a small, but awesome improvement to the gameplay that will be likely go unnoticed by newcomers to the series.ĭW8:XL also features a mode of play called Ambition Mode, which places you in charge of a modest province during the Warring States Period and tasks you with creating a powerful and glorious kingdom strong enough to unify the land. Now, a simple press of a button has your officer whistle for his/her steed and allow you to reach your destination much more quickly. Before, when you were in a scenario in which you were required to run across the map in order to save your lord from an ambush, going on foot was perhaps the most aggravating aspect of Dynasty Warriors. In addition to being able to select different weapons for your heroes, Tecmo Koei also ingeniously added the ability to call for a horse without the need for finding/earning the item as in previous incarnations. ![]() Skills, weapons, and experience are shared, thus enabling you to jump into a new character easily and continue your rampage across ancient China. Instead of selecting a single officer to play the entirety of the campaign, you are given a small pool to select from before each stage begins. The same can be said for the character selection in the story mode. While each character has their own “specialty” weapon, the flexibility offered by switching weapons and movesets on the fly allows for a more varied style of play something that was often lacking in the previous installments. Unlike previous Dynasty Warriors titles in which the player was forced to play through entire campaigns with a single character/weapon at a time, this new system allows for the player to equip any two of their favorite weapons to their characters. Not much change here from any other Dynasty Warriors, but one can only change the hack-and-slash genre so much.Ī newer feature to the franchise is the weapon inventory system, which was introduced in Dynasty Warriors 7. The game controls are tight, responsive, and match the speed at which your warrior blurs across the screen, ending lives in awesome displays of supernatural power that would make most X-Men jealous. You will see dozens of enemies swarming you onscreen in one moment before sweeping them away in the blink of an eye with a Musou (special) attack. The story mode of Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends plays very simply: running/riding from tactical point A to B in a string of historic battles while pressing two attack buttons in combinations to unleash moves that the poor enemy soldiers have no chance to defend against. In this sense, nothing has changed in this iteration over its predecessors, but there are several improvements to the game that veterans and newcomers alike will appreciate while playing the newest edition of one of the most over-told historical operas. All in the name of your Lord and kingdom. By the end of each stage, it is not unheard of to have racked up a kill count in the thousands. Now, when I say “play”, I mean “carve swathes through literally dozens of soldiers at a time as you complete missions that bring your warlords closer to victory”. To those unfamiliar with the franchise (there probably aren’t too many anymore) you play as an officer of one of three factions in an era of China’s history known as the Three Kingdoms Period-following the fall of the Han Dynasty: the Wu, Shu, and Wei. I’ve been out of the series for a while, but what I found in the latest edition by Tecmo Koei surprised me in a very good way. I thought I was done with the Dynasty Warriors franchise with Dynasty Warriors 4. Yet somehow the prospect of re-assuming the role of an ancient Chinese general in Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends and single-handedly demolishing entire armies was too great to resist.
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