Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
- Become one of history¿s greatest warriors and fight as a team to conquer heavily¿armed fortresses, infiltrate enemy strongholds and more.
- New aerial combat! Fight in the air and on the ground! Enemies will make gifted use of the terrain and space, and attack from nearly every management.
- New ¿Fury¿ transformations give characters even greater supernatural abilities and attacks, including lightning quick alacrity and the ability to glide.
- Build and modify weapons using supplies gathered during battle. Equip your warrior with any weapon you make.
Product Description
With DYNASTY WARRIORS: Strikeforce up to four friends can join together online and experience Tactical Action combat in whole new way. As a team, players will travel to different cities throughout Imperial China to go aboard on quests, and use coordinated assaults to conquer heavily?armed fortresses and colossal beasts. Up to four players can engage in cooperative and competitive battlefield action online! New quests plus downloadable add?on make pleased. Online play supports VS. and Co?op play, as well as voice and text chat. Meng Huo joins the chaos as a new playable character. Access new officer cards for upgrades
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After playing Dynasty Warriors 6 and enjoying it thoroughly, I saw an add for this game and thought that it looked really excellent. I knew that it had originally been a PSP game and I was pleased to see that they had redone it for the PS3, or so I thought. I recieived the game and as soon as I started playing it I realized that not anything had been redone at all, it is simply a PSP game place on a Blu-ray for the PS3. The world is not a full map, it is made up of different small areas that must each load on their own. The graphics are those of a PSP game as well, it is simply not a PS3 game at all. As far as I am concerned this game is a flop, I paid the $50 price tag for the game expecting a PS3 game and got a PSP game. If you’re looking for a PS3 quality game then don’t buy this title, but if all you want is the PSP game, then by all means it certainly delivers.
EDIT: A few people have said that the graphics in this game are better than those of the PSP version and they are right, the graphics are better. But, I feel that its like comparing upscaled DVD to Blu-ray. Yes, the upscaled DVD is better than non-upscaled DVD, but a Blu-ray is much better than either. I reflect that this game is an upscaled DVD trying to pass off as a Blu-ray because no where does it state that it is a game ported from the PSP. As far as make pleased goes, this game is a departure from the normal dynasty warriors stylishness of “kill thousands of men because you can”. The focus of this game is visibly not killing as many guys as you can, since it lacks the mainstay of the DW sports meeting; The K.O. counter. This game is more of an RPG spinoff of DW. The player goes around completing missions and gathering materials to enhance your weapons and abilities at the various NPCs in town. The world is not a giant map like in the previous sports meeting, the map is divided into a bunch of small areas, each with load times to get into the next area. There are some asinine abilities that are added to this game, like the ability to glide at will even when not in “fury mode”, but I suppose that is knit-picking. In my opinion this game is not up to snuff as a PS3 game, because it is nearly a direct port over from the PSP, and it is pretty obvious once you start playing. The game is basically a poorly done action-RPG using the DW world and characters. As far as I am concerned this game is not very excellent in comparison to any of the other sports meeting in the DW franchise, especially the other titles for PS3; DW6 and DW:Gundam1&2. The main point of this review is to tell people who may not know otherwise, that this is not a game born for the PS3, it is a game ported over from the PSP. If what you want is this game and you know what you’re getting then you might reflect its splendid. I feel that this game is not what it could/should have been using the potential of the PS3. If what you want is a excellent Dynasty Warriors game for the PS3 then I would recommend going with DW6 or DW:Gundam2 over this game.
Rating: 2 / 5
It’s overpriced.
Wait, before you lambaste me, let me clarify. I played the PSP version extensively, hours and hours on end, got farther than I even remember getting. I didn’t like it at first, thought it didn’t have that Dynasty Warriors feel, and that KOEI or Tecmo was trying too hard to make the game hard, thinking the increased challenge would increase the game’s regard. Sadly, that’s the polar contrary thing to do if the game itself isn’t fun. It’s really not fun, until after you’ve had a chance to build up your character to some decent levels to where you can fight off enemies without dying at every turn, then the game turns it up a notch and you really can let loose some doom.
Those who have not played the game, skip to the very bottom. I’ve got something for you.
The PS3/360 versions of this game, despite what others might tell you, are 100% identical in gameplay to the PSP version. Meaning if you’ve played the PSP version, you already know what to expect on this version; from Bi Xie to Golden-haired Thunder to the Phoenix to the Golden-haired Turban battles…all are perfectly identical to the PSP version. That’s both a excellent and a terrible thing – it’s excellent in that if you liked the PSP version you’ll like the next gen versions if you can excuse the fact that the graphics are visibly PS2-ish. It’s terrible in that really, these versions of the sports meeting should be 30 bucks AT MOST. I can in fact tell you the reason they cost more.
The PSP version supported multiplayer via adhoc, meaning if you and a couple of buddies all had PSPs in the same room, you could set up an adhoc network and go at it that way…reflect of it as a wireless System Link setup. The PS3 and 360 versions take this a step further by using the PlayStation Network / Xbox Live to allow friends to battle online together, up to four at any given time (Which I find to be a bit overkill, more on that later). This is certainly a cool feature; even the demo lets you do this to get a taste of what it would be like, and if you’ve got friends who are on the fence because “it doesn’t feel like Dynasty Warriors”, you should introduce them to this mode and I guarantee they’ll be hooked. The PS3 obviously gets a slight nod here for being free to play online, but it’s clear that they added a $20 premium to the game because of the online gameplay. That’s their prerogative, but it’s really infuriating.
Before you question, no, you can’t cross platform. Meaning you can’t use your PS3 version to connect with a friend that has the 360 version. When you want to set up online, you’ll make your own “online city”, and then invite a friend to that city. The invite is sent within your friends list or within the ID system of the PlayStation Network, up to three friends can join. You can’t send invites via email, for example, and there doesn’t seem to be any other way to send these invites, so no cross platforming, which is okay. Latency is certainly an issue; I have a NASA-quality connection of 20Mbps down/2Mbps up, and my connection was fine, but my friend had 7Mbps down and probably 512Kbps up, and I noticed him stuttering at times. It didn’t detract from the experience with just the two of us, but keep in mind that most of these types of peer-to-peer networks will generally use the lowest connection alacrity to determine the experience, so if you’ve got four people going to battle, make sure they’ve got excellent internet.
Speaking of the number of people, I mentioned earlier that I’ve played the PSP version extensively. I’ve played that version by myself, never did multiplayer (my friends are not local), and I got pretty far by myself. I also mentioned that there will come a point where you can handle any scenario thrown at you, for the most part. Because of this, you could look at the difficulty level like this:
1 person: Extreme at first, Tough after gaining some levels, but not impossible nor a breeze
2 people: Tough at first, still tough after gaining levels, but eventually you’ll breeze owing to things
3 people: Tough at first, a breeze thereafter
This is because of the nature of the game. With the exception of a brilliant few stages where you have to pass objectives to open the path forward, for the most part you could do small more than alacrity to the bonus objective, pass that, then kill the final general and get mass amounts of points. Lather-rinse-do again on the same stage, and eventually you’ll be at a level where you can dominate your enemy. Two people make this even simpler; the experience and items you gain in multiplayer carry over to the release player and vice versa from what I can tell. I might be incorrect in this assessment, but it appears as though the character increases are cumulative. My friend and I are waiting for a significant price drop and then we’ll be buying copies to test that theory, but that’s what it looks like.
HAVEN’T EVER PLAYED THE GAME?
That’s okay. What I said above still applies; it’s overpriced. If you’ve at least played Dynasty Warriors you already know what to expect in terms of selecting a fighter and going out to fight hordes of mindless minions. What Strikeforce does is challenge the way you accomplish the task by presenting it like a cross between a role playing game and Dragon Ball Z. If that sounds perplexing, don’t feel terrible…it’s an odd mixture. You’ll pick your character, and you brilliant quests at a message penetrate in the town. These quests vary from thug defeat to reduction peasants. Each time you complete a quest you’ll be rewarded with experience and cash, which both can be used to build up your character. You can also buy materials in the battle which are used, in conjunction with the cash, to build and buy accessories or enhance your weapons. Each warrior has two weapons, a primary and a secondary, to use in battle, and generally the primary is the stronger of the two. The secondary weapon is nearly always quicker and lighter, and more effective against wizards and the like, though that doesn’t stop you from using it other places.
You can take accessories that will enhance your abilities even further. Those who remember Dynasty Warriors 3 and 4 might remember the various elements that were presented in the game. With these accessories, you’ll be able to add these elements to your attacks. It might seem pointless, but these elements can mean the difference between total defeat and simple victory. Also, the Musou has been changed, to a two level stylishness…the first is an “enraged” mode (thus the DBZ reference), the second is the actual Musou attack. In rage mode your attacks are significantly stronger, and if you have an element like fire on your weapon, your character might add projectiles to his/her standard attacks. While in rage mode your Musou bar will go down, so this should be saved for the most hard of fights.
In town you can buy various items like meatbuns; they are sometimes found out in the field, but you’ll abide by in this game that the level of difficulty makes it nearly a condition for you to buy items beforehand. If you try to rely on what’s in the field, you’ll find yourself face down frequently. While you do get 3 lives (instead of the instant death of the previous sports meeting), you will find some quests that will fail you after one death, so better safe than sorry: spend the cash and get some meat buns. There are other items that enhance your weapons as well.
The difficulty in the game is sincerely ramped versus other Dynasty Warriors. This is in part because the enemy generals can also go into rage mode, causing your attacks to not stun or knock them down, and their energy is often so high that repeated attacks don’t appear to be doing much hurt at all. There are also oversized “character helpers” throughout the game, like Lu Bu’s Bi Xie, a giant lion, or the Golden-haired Turbans’ Golden-haired Thunder, a giant mechanical lightning generator. These add to the difficulty by giving another way for you to die without even realizing it. You can’t focus on the generals if these helpers are alive, so the game encourages you to take them out first, but doing so might cost you the bonus for that quest, so be careful.
Is it a terrible game? Not at all. It’s a lot of fun multiplayer. It’s fun release player. But it’s overpriced at retail. Certainly wait for a price drop before buying this, because unless you’re just addicted to mindless fun, the game is just not fun enough to warrant its contemporary price point, and despite what anyone tells you, besides the multiplayer it’s the same exact game as the PSP version (currently available for 20 bucks).
Rating: 3 / 5
Recieved the game (PS3) on the 22nd, and have been playing it off & on for some hours now. It’s pretty excellent if you like fighting sports meeting w/leveling perks or are just a fan of the Dynasty Warriors series.
I myself have only DW6, DW:Empires and now this one on console. I’ve played some of the grown-up sports meeting on my PC, so I am a small bit used to the series, albiet not an expert. So far this is pretty fun, not overly complicated but also not too unadorned. The audio is well done and the graphics are nice although alot of the enemy troops look like clones, this does work well enough for this game as it can get pretty hectic and quick & furious with alot going on at once, it hasn’t hiccuped or slowed down at all-plays smoothly. The jumping and fighting in the air is pretty cool, especially since I am using an archer as my primary weapon is a bow. Can pull off some cool double jumps and start firing away in flight, and since I’m basically starting out, I have been fighting mostly ground troops. Jump up on a few ledges and leap off from there spraying arrows into the crowd not more than, this is works well when they start climbing up the ledges/areas after you. The controls are simple enough, well positioned and very open (just a tap on a button and it responds instantly). I havn’t tried online yet as I am just starting out and checking out of what small I can see of the map so far & getting a feel of the game. The towns offer storage, blacksmith, shrines, guards, merchants,quest boards and more. I reflect I counted 8+ or so NPCs I could cooperate with at the beginning town of the clan I chose. The map can be zoomed in and out, you can change secondary weapons with a button press. So far a excellent hack n’ slash fighting game that expands more as you go up in experience, to distribute skills as you see fit for your chosen character. There are 3 clans, each with 10 I reflect different characters to choose from that are all completely different from each other, although some seem like hybrids of the primary “class” types. DW:Strikeforce allows you the option of installing it to your hdd. The animations are excellent, the graphics look nice especially the special effects. This was a topic that I had plotted to write up a proper review after I play this some more and experiment, but alas there is no review yet. I reflect it’s safe to say people that like KOEI sports meeting will delight in this very much. To me this one is better than DW:6 and DW:6 Empires. There seems to be more options available and more flexability in Strikeforce. On the PSN store there are addons, if I remember correctly. I will edit this mini review as I play it more, so far the missions are fetching, assassinations and diversions that I have seen with some mean arse bosses, again I’m still new to Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce and never played on the PSP, but looking at it’s reviews (around 80%+) and much better graphics, the full console version is much more in depth and of course much better looking. I loved Dynasty Warriors 6 over Empires, and this one seems more like DW:6 in gameplay, but just better all around. Much more polished in every way. If you like the series, this game won’t let you down. I nearly want to say it’s DW:6+, but it is much more that that with the much wanted/requested online co-op/multiplayer options. Ok back to my mission of explorational slaughterfest.
Rating: 4 / 5