Dynasty Warriors has come a long way. Every DW that came out, has improve somewhat but the fans still buy the game and play it. There are pros and cons of the Dynasty Warriors series but DW6 stands out somewhat.
To much as my surprise, the game is good. I've played the game numerous times and i've wrote down the pros and cons. It could have been improve so much (ex. glitches). Here is my honest review of Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires.
Pros-
* Create your own officer. Change the tone of your skin, hair, voice.
* New weapons. You can customize your weapons and make your officer powerful.
* New power skills. You can have your officer use fire, ice, rockfall, recover by simply holding a button and hitting the button that you wish to use. Ex. if your officer has the ability to use blizzard,(using XBOX 360) hold down the left trigger and hit either A,X,Y,B. The special powers recharge and you can use them as many times as you can.
*Oath,Friends,Married. You can bound an oath to any officer. When you are playing as an officer, you can have up to 3 friends that you can deploy them in battle. Getting married is somewhat fun.. Your spouse can raise your lvl or give you items to help make your weapons powerful.
*The officer mode is great. You can now serve a ruler and have he or she boss you around. You can join whomever ruler you please. Also you will be risen higher rank if you complete a task. The ruler can assign you missions every time there's a war council. You can suggest rules and also who to attack if you disagree. The mercenary mode is where a list of officers and roaming officers placed missions for you to complete if you wish to do so. If you complete them, you can be there friend and have great benfits. Random events will happen in the game too.
*Surprise attacks. When your in battle, you now have the change to do an surprise attack meaning that you can take a base with ease by setting the base on fire and the enemy will be confuse. The downfalls is that you can only do it once and if you get caught by an officer, The countdown will stop and you will have to do it all over again.
*Clothing and BGM (Background music)> If you don't like your created officer clothing, you can now change it with ease. You can change the BGM when your free and when your in battle.
Cons-
*The glitches are a pain! Sometimes I see my foot literally in the ground and my hands not holding my weapon. Once in a blue moon, i would die because of the glitches. In one battle, i sent my officer to defend a base and all he did was walk outside and not move. I ran to him and when i did, he went to defend the base.
*The acting can be improve soo much! The people who did the voice acting for the created officers did such a bad job that some of the voices just wants to make you put your head in the wall.
*When in ruler mode, Officers can freely join your army. Whether you like it or not. I had one time Yuan Shao join my army seven times and i dismiss him. So if your looking for a certain officer to join your army, your percentage of he or she joining your army is low.
*No more ambush cards, netraul bases etc. Koei took out the cards like that and gave you similar cards but it doesn't really do much expect for the fire attacks.
*Limited seranios. The game only gives you The yellow turban rebellion, Chi Bi, Guan Du, Three Kingdoms and A Land in Chaos.
*Over time when you don't battle, the surrounding armies will increase their lvl making them stronger. So if your army is around lvl 20's and you haven't battle for a long time. The surrounding armies can be in the beginning 30's or so. Invading is important when in ruler mode.
*The difficulty. Easy, Normal, Hard, Master and Chaos. Easy and Normal is like in regular Koei game. For beginners. Hard is a tad challenging and is for intermiate players. Master and Chaos is for extreme hardcore Koei fans. Master is BEATABLE! Chaos on the other hand is almost impossible. I died everytime in a battle and it's extreme hard to survive!
*Missing musuo officers and no new officers. Jiang Wei, Da Qiao, Pang De, Liu Chan, Guan Tong, Zuo Ci, Zhu Rong, Xing Cai.
*Lag. Playing co-op can be a challenge. The lag is unbearable and can kill or save you in battle. The appearing and disappearing officers and troops is also a pain and can kill you if you are not careful.
*Level 1 again? When you beat an seranio and you want to play a different seranio, You can keep all the weapons and horses, but your lvl is reset and your training abilities is reseted.
*When in ruler mode, you can only have up to 15 officers. Think of it as Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires.
Overall-
I rate the game 3.5 out of 5 because the game can be improve. It felt like the game was made in a rush and i felt like koei didn't take the time and really look in the game. Think of this game as DW4E and DW5E combine into one. If you still want to play this game, i recommend to rent the game before buying it. The game is great but has it's flaws.
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