Samurai Warriors 2 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

If I wanted to go into full detail, it would exceed the limits of this tutorial, so I'll make it short and sweet.

Graphics and sound are quite poor; no improvement over its last-gen counterpart. The same could be said about the voice-acting. While it is superior to Dynasty Warriors, it's still kind of laughable. But at least there is a little more charisma behind the lines.

The gameplay, I don't really know if it differs from the original or not, because I've only seen videos of the original. But it looks to play pretty much the same. Perhaps I should go into detial about that one.

The game consists of a campaign mode, which has a story for every warrior you unlock(with minor exceptions), and along their story, you play through the famous Feudal-era wars that this warrior participated in, level up substancially, and accquire weapons, guards, mounts and the like.. to add a bit of variety, there is no repetitious re-use of moves like the Dynasty Warriors series. Everyone is a unique fighter, and there are three different move-set layouts. Other modes onsist of free-battle, survival and challenges.

But to me, the story is where the game's MAJOR redeeming factor comes into play. There is little fabrication in the campaigns of these warriors. Nobunaga Oda really was an eccentric, power-hungry war-lord who's life was of conquest, and his nickname literally did translate to Fool of Owari. Naoe Kanetsuge was an adobted son/retainer of Usuegi Kanetsuge. Date Masamune did go on to conquer many out-lying islands and was a feared, young general. Maeda Keiji covered the rear guard of his retreating Lord, and broke an entire formation with but eight men. There are even legends surrounding his prize mount, Matsukaze And the great, legendary liege of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Honda Tadakatsu, was revered as Samurai among samurai, the man who beat death itself, and is most noted having fought over 55 battles without sustaining a single strike or injury.