Chaos Wars

by Game Stop Exclusive

Product Features

• Number of Player:1

Product Details

• ASIN: B001B3UL2C
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,397 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Finally, O~3 Entertainment (in association with Idea Factory) brings the original Japanese sensation over to eagerly-awaiting North American audiences, available exclusively at GameStop. Chaos Wars is an immersive tactical role-playing experience featuring your favorite characters from such games as; Growlanser, Shadow Hearts, Gungrave, Spectral Force, and many others. Get ready for the ultimate tactical-RPG crossover! O~3 Entertainment and Idea Factory bring together an ensemble of characters from some of Aruze's, Atlus' and RED Entertainment's most popular titles. Fan favorites from games such as Shadow Hearts, Growlanser, Spectral Force and Gungrave make appearances to help navigate through Endia, a world encompassed by the ocean. Transported by a beam of light while investigating a nearby cave, Hyoma and his friends are thrust into a magical world, filled with monsters and inter-dimensional travelers known as "Knights". Now, with the help of some new traveling partners, Hyoma goes on a quest to find his missing friends and return home safely...but leaving Endia proves to be much more difficult than anticipated!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Crappy voice acting, excellent gameplay, October 22, 2009

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R. Baldock (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Chaos Wars (Video Game)

Sure we all know that this has the worst voice acting in a video game but luckily the gameplay itself is rather quite enjoyable. It's fun how the story is almost similar to Cross Edge which is on PS3 but if you don't like the battle system in Cross Edge where you have the square panels to place your characters on and rather have it be more like the same battle style as like Disgaea or Phantom Brave then this is the game for you. This game is a retail exclusive to Gamestop but online sellers still sell it anyways and Gamestop has it for $10 now but I say once you overlook the voice acting or even just put your tv on mute, Chaos Wars is worth owning to JRPG fans. If you want better voice acting, better crossover characters to find in the game then maybe Cross Edge will be a better choice.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A game for fans, August 2, 2010

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Bailey Applegate - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Chaos Wars (Video Game)

The first and most important thing to know about this game is that it is for fans. It's goal is not to wow you with graphics, amaze you with story or even give you an impressive battle system.

The goal of this game is, simply put: fan service.

The entire cast save a few original characters are all hero's or villains from various games. Each hero gets an entourage of at least 3 other charters from his or her game and 1 or more villains. The charters bring their own problems and back story into the game, including their own style of combat. Uru (Yuri) turns into a demon god that can clean the field on his own easily, just like in his own game Shadow Hearts, Alice heals like you wouldn't believe, and Brandon Heat from Gungrave has some pretty massive guns with nice distance.

While the gameplay itself isn't all that amazing, it's simple and relativity easy to understand. Unlike other SRPG's Chaos Wars is very forgiving and rather simple, you don't need to be a master of strategy to beat this game. The story is simple and relies on the players willingness to write off how absurd it is in exchange for seeing your favorite characters again. And yes, the voice acting is god awful, I highly suggest switching to Japanese or just muting it all together.

Over all it's a decent play if you're a fan of one or more of the games below. If you're not don't bother, because it's not worth it.

Shadow Hearts
Growlanser
Blazing Souls
Gakuen Toshi Vara Noir
Spectral Force
Spectral Souls
Hametsu no Mars
Gungrave
Shinsengumi Gunraw Den

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No, the voice acting really is terrible, July 13, 2009

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illustrationism - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Chaos Wars (Video Game)

You'd have to be 6 years old to think that the English voice acting in this game is anything other than "bad". The first 5 minutes of a new game are unbearable - a lazy teen boy voice reading the script with no other music or sounds. The visual is a still image completely saturated in blue (no other color), and it slowly scrolls upwards as the teen reads the nonsensical opening lines, with uncomfortably long pauses between sentences. Then you get into the game to find out that all the voices are just as terrible as the opening voice.

Beyond that, there's no real way to tell what's going on in the game, as you have to just watch 2 still-drawn anime characters talk back and forth laid on top of a blurred background. There are more than 2 characters, mind you, but only 2 will fit on the screen. That's the way you follow the story.

I'm sorry, but this is nothing but an totally over-priced, low-budget game in the guise of a hip anime-inspired tactical RPG (which it isn't). I'm returning it today.