Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2

by Koei

Product Features

• 2-player local co-op multiplayer support.
• Combines the fast-paced excitement and epic, cinematic action of the Dynasty Warriors gameplay with the rich storylines and characters of the Gundam universe.
• More mobile suits, plus stories featuring mecha from the latest Gundam series, including Char's Counter Attack and more.
• Play as any of your favorite Gundam characters utilizing customizable mobile suits.
• Engage in melee battles against the massive Psyco Gundam, which can quickly reconfigure their bodies into titanic mobile fortresses.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B001L8DKI4
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: April 21, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,409 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #20 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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Platform: PlayStation2

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Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 combines the devastating power of the mobile suit, the rich legacy of the anime Gundam universe, and the furious tactical action gameplay of the Dynasty Warriors series. For the first time, engage in melee battles against colossal enemies such as the Psycho Gundam who can quickly reconfigure their bodies into titanic mobile fortresses. Prepare to head off into the furthest reaches of space and wage war against legions of enemy mobile suits. Innumerable enemies. View larger. Huge boss commander mechs. View larger. On-screen chat with fellow pilots. View larger. Story An Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG) pilot who calls himself Quattro Bajeena infiltrates the space colony known as Gryps, the headquarters of the Earth Federation's dreaded Titans taskforce. Confirming that the Titans are developing new Gundam Mk II mobile suits, Quattro and his comrades capture some of the machines and then return to the AEUG flagship, Argama. They are accompanied by a young civilian named Kamille Bidan, a talented pilot with strong newtype potential and no love for the Titans. Evading the pursuing Titans and their allies in the regular Federation Forces, the Argama makes its way to the moon, where the rebels receive new weapons and supplies from their sponsors. After capturing several Federation warships, the AEUG gathers its forces for its first major offensive - a massive mobile suit attack on the Titans' terrestrial supply base, the underground fortress of Jaburo in South America. Gameplay Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, like its predecessor, is a hack and slash tactical action game based on several different anime within the popular and long-lived Gundam series. Action in these anime, and thus within Gundam 2, is based around combat that utilizes in-game mechanized mobile suits and the player's ability to pilot them in combat against hordes of similarly equipped enemies. The goal in this combat is to level up your chosen character and suit by doing enough damage against the low level enemies you face, and wherever possible, the huge boss character/mechs that are associated with the particular level you find yourself on. Gundam mobile suits feature laser swords, guns, as well as propulsion mechanisms, together which can be used in a few varieties of standard and charging attacks, as well as attacks designed to knock out all enemies within a certain range by charging a power gauge before acting. As you would expect, successful attacks against bosses require much more work and precision, and in many cases rapid input of button prompts flashed during combat. Multiple Play Modes Gundam 2 also provides players with a few different play mode options. 'Official mode' is a default campaign where players attempt to level up characters by playing through existing plot lines from the various anime subject matter. In this mode you can choose to play from either the good, or evil side of things, but the characters are set. 'Mission mode' on the other hand allows players to mix characters and scenarios from the Gundam universe and associate them in different ways for different outcomes. Missions here are divided into several different categories, with completion of missions unlocking further play opportunities and classes of mobile suits. Lastly 'Library mode' provides players with background information on all the pilots, mobile suits and battle ships in the game. Key Game Features: Combines the fast-paced excitement and epic, cinematic action of the Dynasty Warriors gameplay with the rich storylines and characters of the Gundam universe. More mobile suits, plus stories featuring mecha from the latest Gundam series, including Char's Counter Attack and more. Play as any of your favorite Gundam characters and mobile suits. Engage in melee battles against the massive Psyco Gundam, which can quickly reconfigure their bodies into titanic mobile fortresses. Customize your mobile suit with mecha parts collected during battle. 2-player local co-op multiplayer support. More Mobile Suits Than Ever Because action in the Gundam series is so heavily influenced by its playable mobile suits, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 has been designed to include more of these than ever before. Increasing the 19 available in the original Gundam game to more than 60, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 is destined to provide both newbies to the Gundam universe and longtime fans more of the mechs that brought them to the game in the first place.

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DYNASTY WARRIORS: GUNDAM 2 combines the devastating power of the Mobile Suit, the rich legacy of the GUNDAM universe, and the furious Tactical Action game play of the DYNASTY WARRIORS series. For the first time, engage in melee battles against colossal enemies such as the Psycho Gundam who can quickly reconfigure their bodies into titanic mobile fortresses. Prepare to head off into the furthest reaches of space and wage war against legions of enemy Mobile Suits!

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compares well with other KOEI Warriors games, October 26, 2009

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Bryan Rosander "Critical Gamer" (Orlando Florida) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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I've played Dynasty Warriors 4 & 5, Samurai Warriors 1 & 2, and Orochi Warriors 1 & 2. I haven't played Dynasty Warriors Gundam I, so I can't make many comparisons there. I'm an anime fan who likes giant robot anime in general and would like most of the Gundam series but hasn't seen much of them.

An SP (Musou) is like a Super move from a fighting game. It is more powerful than normal moves and makes your Gundam invincible. Every Warriors game has these.

Most of the character's in a Warriors game have a similar move set in terms of controls, though the moves themselves look very different and have different effects. Because of this, fans developed a special terminology shorthand to refer to moves of a certain type. Moves with higher C numbers tend to need more hits to pull off and tend to do more damage. C6 is usually the last move and is usually more unique to that character than other moves.

Each character in the game gets at least 5 personalized missions. These missions include conversations between your character and others before the mission as well as personalized and non-personalized conversations during the mission. Compare that to the Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi series which didn't provide much details on character growth or relationships between characters between missions and had weaker character relationship discussions during the mission. This variety means that there is an actual point to playing all the characters in the game, because you get new content, rather than playing the same mission with just a different character. I think Samurai Warriors 2's stories were better, but this is still a good recommendation.

In addition to those missions, there are a ton of other missions to unlock, of varying quality. Some of these missions allow a character to fight with factions from other anime series (or their own), and do personal missions for other characters. Some missions allow you to unlock different mobile suits for that character or build "friendships" similarly to the Dynasty Warriors 4 relationship system. This system allows you to check on your relationship status, however, and is used to get access to unlock other mobile suits.

Most of the battles in the game are somewhat randomized, where the game selects from a set of random events, usually involving the appearance of a group of characters trying to accomplish an objective. This means that in addition to the storyline characters you fight in that battle, a bunch of others might show up as well. This has a tendency to make all of the battles with random events seem a bit more similar, but it doesn't seem overdone. Some of these random events involve the appearance of boss-like "Mobile Armors" which are several times larger than normal enemies and very difficult to fight until you get used to them.

Some of the battles are part of an "Official" mode, which has pre-rendered cut-scenes and doesn't have the random events. The other battles are part of "Mission" mode, which has the random events and is the story mode for most of the characters in the game.

The battle system has a few differences from traditional Warrior's games. Rather than conquering Defensive, Supply, or Attack bases, you conquer fields. Fields are colored according to their team and can switch sides multiple times. Rather than just defeating the field's commander, you also have to destroy a certain number of infantry in the field to capture it. This makes it slightly more important to have a Gundam good at destroying enemy infantry.

Characters can earn skills randomly after fighting a battle. The skills that they can earn vary depending on the mobile suit that they were using. (They can pilot other suits after they get the "license" from a license mission). After they earn a skill, they can equip up to a total of 3 of them. As the character levels up, the chances of them learning a skill increase. Some skills are better than others and the better skills have a lower chance of being earned. These skills are equivalent to the skills in Samurai Warriors or Warriors Orochi.

Rather than upgrading weapons, robots get upgraded parts. Most robots have 5 different parts to collect, each of which can add bonus stats and an ability. The abilities are equivalent to the some weapon effects in other games in Samurai Warriors or Warriors Orochi, but I haven't seen one that adds the elemental effects. Some of them make individual attacks stronger.

Some of the new playable robots are equivalent to the infantry from previous games. They have poor movesets (a long square string, a C1, and a dash attack) and I don't consider them much of an addition to the game. There are also a some robots with a charge moves C1-C4, but they can't continue a combo like the normal robots can. Each of these types also have simpler SP (Musou) attacks that don't take up the entire musou bar. Some of these second group of robots are still fun to play, but are largely ignorable.

The Gundams with full movesets are a lot of fun though. They have added about 8 new ones. Like the previous Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, they can use a boost move to continue their combos as long as their boost gauge is full. This makes the combos a bit more fun. The boost gauge charges quickly as long as you are on the ground and haven't used the boost yet in that combo. They also have very different SP (Musou) attacks depending on whether you are jumping, on the ground, or are near an allied character.

The charge moves themselves are very fun and many of the robots have a very powerful C6 move which makes them very different from other Gundams. There is a lot of variation including grenades and bazookas (area of effect ranged attacks), small lasers (might pierce based on skill selection), big lasers (won't pierce, but are big enough to hit a couple of enemies, more powerful), as well as the standard dynasty warriors melee style attacks. In addition to those, there are a lot more unusual attacks, especially for C6 moves.

Overall, I like this more than Dynasty Warriors 4, 5 for the more detailed stories. The move sets are also more varied because they have multiple SP (Musou) attacks and better C6 moves.

I also like this more than the Orochi Warriors series. While there were a lot of missions in those games, once you played it through once with a group of characters, it wasn't much different when you switched to a different character. That reduced the replay value.

The Samurai Warriors series had very unique and well done story lines, movesets, and excellent production. I recommend picking up at least Samurai Warriors 2 before Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2.

For people who have played the first Dynasty Warriors Gundam game, this one does include some new characters and storylines. I was not able to get Dynasty Warriors Gundam because it wasn't released on any of my systems, so this release was very important for me to play any of this series. The mission mode seems very different from the first game's story, which I played 2 or 3 missions in, so it seems to add a lot of new content. Most of the Mission mode probably isn't as well scripted as the first game was though.

The movesets seem to follow the shows reasonably well (Except Domon Kasshu pulls out swords for at least 2 of his charge moves. Why?). Some of my friends complained about missing characters, especially the other main Gundam Wing pilots. The voice acting is pretty good, using most of the talent from the respective American releases. Characters stay true to their character and aren't abused. The game feels very much like a Koei Warriors game, so keep that in mind when you pick it up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, November 19, 2010

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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 (Video Game)

I AM A DIE HARD FAN OF THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I first got this game, I played it for 6 HOURS STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am only 11 so....GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars decent game, good multiplayer, October 31, 2009

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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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Overall, the game is pretty good

if you like dynasty warriors, then you like this game, but with gundams instead

the multiplayer is good, i like playing it as you can team up in like different co-op mods and battlt together or you can play vs. mode and battle each other

many customizeable gundams and pilots to choose from.

one thing i didnt really like is the camera view

overall its pretty good

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