Post by Sands on May 28, 2013 23:18:12 GMT -5
DW7 Empires was recently released on PSN, and as a huge fan i was REALLY excited in my pants.
Normally Dynasty Warriors is a hack and slash game where you play as an officer in 1 of 4 kingdoms. (It was 3 until DW6 added a new kingdom)
Wu:
Wei:
Shu:
Jin:
And the random assortment of other officers and rulers:
Yes that's a lot of playable characters.
The story is the same in every DW game thats ever been released.
You can also look it up in Chinese history.
3 kingdoms all fighting over control of China. Eventually forming 4, the chaos raged on for almost 100 years. With the coming and passing of great heroes and tyrants, you can relive every major battle they fought.
Normally DW is a hack and slash, where the player chooses a character, and dives into the ranks of thousands. Toppling entire armies all by there self.
But in the case of the Empire series. You can take charge of your own destiny. You might choose to live out the chaos as an honorable warrior, or mercenary. Or you can rise up as a ruler, become emperor, and take China by storm with your own banner. Its entirely up to you.
The game includes character customization. Your empires colors will reflect that of your character if you are the ruler. Choose one of dozens of fighting styles, and switch at any time. Make your character fight the way you intend to. Fast and agile, slow and powerful, aggressive, defensive, or just be balanced and all around. Maybe your a wise strategist? Affluent ruler? Maybe a Brave but humble warrior. These things and more are all included in the creation.
Now we get to the Empires game mode. You chose which timeline you want to start in. From the Yellow Turban Rebelion (The very beginning of the chaos) Or the Rise of Jin, and the final conflict. Then the player can choose to play as any officer or ruler of that time, or play as a created character at any setting.
The game also allows you to tweak things during your play through. Like if you want the characters you created to appear randomly throughout the world. This function can be applied to officers that other people have created online.
Then you begin the game and jump into the hilariously infinite hack and slash that is Dynasty warriors. I would try to explain how all the game play works. But i might need like 3 or 4 posts to include everything. To put it simply, your either a free officer, a subordinate, or a ruler. And you can imagine what those titles include.
If your interested i implore you try the demo. I'm pretty addicted myself. I need to finish this step in so i can go frikin play some more.
PS: Lu Bu rapes your ass.