Onimusha: Blade Warriors

by Capcom

Product Features

• Choose to be noble heroes like Samanosuke Akechi and Jubei Yagyu -- or become an evil sub-character or monster from the series
• Fight in beautiful interactive backgrounds -- fantastic graphics and realistic lighting create lifelike game worlds
• Customize your characters' powers as you go - strengthen your equipment, boost your Genma power and more
• Four exciting story modes - Story, Fighting, Mini-Game and Practice
• Team up with up to 3 other players for lightning fast multiplayer battles that show off your warrior skills

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000TSR7Y
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,385 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Game Informer Review

Until now, PS2 owners have had very little in the way of good four-player games (other than sports) to throw in when there are more than two people in the room. Blade Warriors, while by no means revolutionary, is a good solid multiplayer brawler that should keep you pounding each other to bits well into the night.

If you've ever played Super Smash Bros., you'll immediately be comfortable here – even the fighter select screen is strikingly familiar. Barring a few elements, such as a life bar and combo attacks, gameplay largely follows in SSB's footsteps. Not that it's necessarily bad, but this is a very derivative title. Not in every way, though. Souls drop when you hit or KO someone, and they can be collected to refill your health. Arenas are fairly three-dimensional, which can make it tough to line up ranged attacks, and everything from models to effects is very easy on the eyes.

Though play is for the most part frantic and fun, Blade Warriors does fall flat in a number of areas. The camera and character variety are both suspect, and combos are nigh-impossible to break up. Fighters don't have nearly enough moves, either. On average, I found myself doing the same four-slash combo all the freaking time.

If you're one of those people with more than one friend, this is as good a way as any to get your brawl on with a PS2.

Concept:
Use your favorite Onimusha characters to unlock other Capcom heroes (and villians), and control them in a giant slugfest

Graphics:
Sharp, varied backgrounds and excellent models

Sound:
Umm, sword clangs and battle cries. Mega Man EXE and Lan are annoying as ever

Playability:
If your square button is feeling lonely, this will reacquaint you with it

Entertainment:
Definitely one of the top PS2 four-player titles

Replay:
High

Rated: 8 out of 10
Editor: Adam Biessener
Issue: March 2004

2nd Opinion:
Going into this review, I was prepared to nominate Capcom for a Darwin Award. Applying the Onimusha license to gameplay that cannibalizes the Super Smash Bros. formula is equivocal to pouring Coke on your Wheaties. As asinine as Blade Warrior's concept is, you can't help but become completely entrenched in its simplistic, yet frantic hack n' slash frays. Strategy laden multi-tiered environments, character-specific special moves, and four-player support pretty much round out the elements that Capcom has so blatantly stolen from Nintendo's popular series. Although very similar in design, Blade Warriors doesn't offer a robust selection of character types, nor reasons for people seeking a single player experience to invest more than a few hours of playing. Fun as it may be, it doesn't have the legs or chemistry of Super Smash Bros.

Rated: 7.5 out of 10
Editor: Andrew Reiner


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Product Description

Onimusha Blade Warriors -- Command a legion of noble, powerful warriors from the Onimusha Warlords series, in this 3D fighting game. Select your warrior and fight alone or against other warriors, in epic battles that will test your skills to the limits!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Multiplayer Gameplay, April 19, 2004

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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I'm a fan of samurai games as well as fighting games. Onimusha Blade Warrior is sort of like Super Smash Brothers with sharp swords.

While some might think of this as a bad thing, I thought it was a brilliant idea. Instead of bouncing around with Yoshi and Link and other cartoon characters, I get to have the fast paced multiplayer fun of the Super Smash Brothers gameplay, but with more rich, robust characters. You get to build up experience and weapons as you go, choosing from a wide range of characters. You can be a young woman, a zombie, a fat old man, or many other characters in between.

There are five levels of difficulty, so even if you get through the entire game on easy you still have quite a lot of challenge ahead of you. There is a full tutorial to get you going, and then quick play as well as campaign play. You can even bring your fully developed campaign charcters into multiplay and see how they stack up against your friends!

There are nice cut scenes that move the story along, and good graphics in general. I do have to say that I had several issues with the control of the characters. Up lets you jump up to higher levels, but down just lets you squat in place. Other keys seemed very un-intuitive at first. But like all games, the more you play it, the more you get used to what the game requires of you.

You can unlock new backgrounds, characters and weapons as you go, and there's a fun variety to work with. This isn't a complex, strategic game like Halo or Splinter Cell, but it definitely is a fun way to blow through a couple of hours of free time with friends.

Recommended!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well, its pretty cool, but..., March 25, 2004

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This review is from: Onimusha: Blade Warriors (Video Game)

the wacky weapons??...hm...
Being a hardcore fan of onimusha, I kinda expected it to be kinda gloomy, u know what Im saying?
Well, other than that, I thought it was really cool...
cant wait until demon seige comes out..

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Super Smash Bros. Rip-Off ever!, April 8, 2005

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D. Walker "DjGoat" (Right here at my computer) - See all my reviews
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Yes, I think I need to say that this is an SSBM ripoff, but that's OK! Because SSBM is such a good game, adding swords and different characters is COOL! So go ahead and buy it... even if it IS an SSBM rip off!