Warriors: Orochi 3 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

For the common people who know about Koei's game play, they might think this as just an average hack n slash, which to them, is boring. BUT, if you really engage yourself into this game, this game is helluva good time.

The story is actually really good. Here's the gist without spoilers. Some time after Warriors Orochi 2, a giant Hydra comes out of nowhere, and starts killing everyone. Orochi's previous lackey, Kiyomori Taira, is also mind controlling some of the named (playable) officers, and add them to his ranks. There are three survivors, Hanbei Takenaka, Sima Zhao, and Ma Chao who decide a last ditch effort. They fail however, and are rescued by the time traveler Kaguya. Now they are traveling through time, undoing the spell of Kiyomori, and saving people who originally died.

The game play is the regular hack n slash that fans will love, but others will not. The game play is pressing X over and over, then the occasional Y. At VERY rare times you need the Musou attack, which is either crowd clearing, or owns a single enemy. This formula is somewhat changed with the 3 character teams. With 120 characters available, and 4 different types, there are tons of teams. These teammates can save you for when you're knocked back, you can switch with them to continue a combo, and they can do a collaboration attack. The 4 types are Technique, Speed, Power, and Wonder. Techniques can sidestep, Speed can double jump, Power can beast through attacks, and Wonder can break guards.

The music is also really good, with remixes of the original stages from the Dynasty and Samurai Warriors games.

I mentioned that this game involved time traveling, but some people are just destined to die not matter what. Now the redux stages are the stages that allow that character to not get injured, and that causes them to join.

My only complaint is the peons are too weak, and the officers are too strong. 9.5/10