Good but lacking in areas.
posted by Buck22184 (COLUMBIA, MS) Apr 12, 2011
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Story wise this is the best DW game in my opinion being that it stays very close to the true story of the Three Kingdoms but can be slightly different depending on who you are playing with. The story mode is different in that you dont choose a character and play 6 battles and you are done, you go through the story of each faction with many more battles but you do not choose the character you want to play with it depends on the battle who you are. The thing you will find different with the stories is that characters will die through the story unlike some before. The main thing that is lacking to me is character weapon originality. Yes many have there old weapons back like Zhang He with the claws and Xiahou Dun with the sword. But any character in the game can use almost any weapon depending on male or female and some weapons are not wielded well by certain characters but besides a special combo that each character has the weapons are mainly the same. For example Xiahou Dun, Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Sima Zhao and others main weapon is the same sword and the combos are the same except for the special which can be very similar to. It is like this for many others to. Another disappointing thing to me is there is no choosing the horse you want. Yes all the characters have their horses from the previous game and Red Hair looks awesome but from looking all throught the game I can't find anywhere to equip a horse that can level up. Another thing missing is a free mode to battle whatever battle you want to be in whichh realy sucks. Althought the game takes a step up with the story telling side, and goes back to the roots with weapons and combos, which still lacks originality, and graphics are no better than before if not worse than the previous game especially during game play. This will be fun for fans of the series to see the new story mode but it can also be very disappointing to, don't look to be overwhelmed and you won't be disappointed.
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