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Let’s face it, it would hardly be a game worthy of the Dynasty Warriors name if it didn’t contain bits where you hack through hundreds of helpless copy/pasted cadavers-to-be so you can acquire bases, join the dots and take the enemy’s main stronghold. Your eyes are focused on unlocking strategems you can use in the game’s battles rather than some grand, Civilisation-like scheme for cultural domination.Īnd there are many, many, many, many battles. Sure it’s fun assimilating spaces and spreading your colour across the realm, and the spice of well-considered territory-taking is certainly there, but what you choose to buy into largely boils down to a fancy veneer on stat-bar improvement. Calling it “diet” would be a disgrace to the overused identification. Unfortunately, this side of the game is never as intricate as you’ll will it to be. Invest money into local businesses to improve your income, spend your food resources on training your troops, or attack a neighbouring region in an attempt to weaken their forces – every turn brings change in the make-up of the realm and advances your current tale of domination. Progress takes a turn-based guise and anything you choose to do will move the calender forward by a month, so it’s up to you how you play. The emperor has final say over what your faction and its commanders should be doing, while a vigilante fights for themselves meaning they can align and break away from factions as and when they choose. Who you are depends how much say you have over your in-game actions. Instead you’ll be playing a role, from either ruler, sub-ordinate or a personal vigilante unit. Starting the game you’ll dive straight into the Empire mode – as aside from creating your own commander to play with, that’s all you can really do – but you won’t be thrust straight into battle. GAMEPLAY: The strategic promises of Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires are encouraging. Dynasty Warriors is an audible dead-end in serious need of fresh inspiration. The music in the interim sections is alright, but the constant, unrelenting amateur-level guitar harassment and aggressive drum-pounding form an acoustically-monotonous wallpaper around repetitive enemy squeals and hit sounds. SOUND: One of the biggest issues I’ve had with the Dynasty Warriors franchise is the painfully forgettable power rawk that has plagued its battles for far too long. The simple fact that the game can looks alright while pushing its hundreds of men – men on horses, men carrying flags, men getting thrown through the air, men running and men dying – all while only taking a minor hit to its framerate, is commendable and absolutely fine.
Like the Taylor Swift of the gaming world its looks induce wrinkly-nosed shrugs of indifference – your oculars shan’t be offended, but neither will they be wowed. GRAPHICS: Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires looks fine. The stories here include The Yellow Turban Rebellion of 184AD, The Alliance Against Dong Zhou in 190AD, the Battle of Guandu in 200AD, the Battle of Chibi in 208AD and Coup d’etat in 249AD. The game gives you five plot-focused scenarios to get through, as well as a custom mode that lets you play world domineer with your own unique setup.
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Where Empires differs from the main series is that, aside from the opening framework, just how you achieve victory and unite the world is entirely your own choice. Taking rough cues from the old Chinese text, ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, Dynasty Warriors tells the tale with an eye for the eccentric. STORY: Aficionados of the mainline Dynasty Warriors games will know exactly where the plot is based. The series’ trademark mass slaughter is interspersed with moments of decision making and resource management, alongside a little diplomacy, with game progress dictated by the Risk-like assimilation of territories. Every off-shoot comes with its own foibles and quirks, and yet for their multitude it’s hard for a disconcerting onlooker to pick up on the changes beyond aesthetics.Įmpires promises something more strategic. For a series so often critically divisive it’s frightening both how popular Dynasty Warriors is and how much of it actually exists.
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