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The Best Game From Koei

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think it is one of Koeis' best games ever. Saying this, I have only read the instruction manual and I love it, as I am waiting for the game for Christmas. I think Koei should keep making Dynasty Warrior games. In Dynasty Warriors 4, I have defeated 3,555 Nanman troops and 1,081 yellow turben troops. I love Dynasty Warriors 4 and I can't wait to get Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires.

Best Dynasty Warriors Game Ever!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This may be challenging at times but you actually get to use the good edit characters and they can be in the endings. It is the best one by Koei, Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires was too easy even on the hard setting. This game provided me with hours of fun. I created Scythe, she became Empress of China one time. I admit this one was part of the Dynasty Warriors 4, which wasnt as good. This game provides the challenge and decent gaming thrill of the overused Dynasty Warriors series. I played Dynasty Warriors 4-5 Empires and Samurai Warriors and SW Xtreme Legends. I learned that once it gets to Xtreme Legends to stop buying the game.

An Element of Strategy - Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Having been a big fan of Koei and the Dynasty Warriors series, I was particularly looking forward to DW IV since I was beginning to get tired of the hack and slash gameplay of DW. In certain way, DW IV fulfills my need for something new but it fails to be a truly awesome game because Koei did not capitalize on some of its potentials.

Strategy is important in DW IV in the form of bases. To win most scenerios, you have to take over enemy bases or defend against your own. Therefore, you can kill everyone on the map and still lose, which makes the game very realistic. Also, you are able to recruit all kinds of officers into your army, whether they are from Wei, Wu, Shu, or some other region. This means you can customize your army to your liking. Furthermore, before each battle u can choose which general in your army you want to be, which gives variety to the game and is kind of cool.

The downside to DW IV is that to some people, it gets real old real fast. The map of China is not divided into very samll pieces and does not change, which means you'll be fighting a lot of the same battles over and over again. This repetitiveness is of course not new to most DW fans. but once I had to defend against both Liu Bei and Cao Cao, both of whom took turn invading the same territory for 10 turns. Imagine having to fight the same stage 10 straight times...

Another downside to this game is the lack of co-op, which I thought is one of the best elements of the DW. Japanese dialogue kind of makes up for single player, but Koei still stubbornly kept information on all weapons and kingdoms, which in my opinion no one really bothers to read....

Anyway, I think the game is a one timer, beat it once and that's it. Kind of a transition between the old and the new. But hey, whatever floats your boat....

Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: August 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was so awsome that I could not keep my hands of the controller. This game is way better than Dynasty Warriors 2, 3, 4 and 4XL(extreme legends)

My Question

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: June 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Do you know if you are playing 2 player if u get 2 be on the same team?

One of the funnest games I own

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires (DW4E) is one of the funnest if not the funnest PS2 game that I own. It takes a number of the characters from the Chinese book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and allows you to play them and fight out epic battles. The style of gameplay during battles in DW4E is the same as all of the games in the Dynasty Warriors series - hack n slash, meaning that you basically run around tapping your attack buttons and killing hordes of enemies and finding powerups on the battlefield. After each battle, depending on how many enemy soldiers you've killed and how many "worthy opponents"(opposing generals) you've defeated and how many casualties your force took your warrior will level up. Here is where DW4E is different than the rest: Outside of battle there is a map of ancient China and it is divided into territories controlled by different generals. From here you will choose which region to invade or defend and also your generals will present policies to you to act out. Policies range from healing armies, recruiting local generals, forming alliances, building new items, trading items, building smiths to improve your weapon levels and so on. One of the best features is that you can choose to play any of the generals in your force during battle, which means you can play every general in your force during every different battle or just stick to powering one up. The entire Empire element adds alot to the original DW4 and in my opinion, makes DW4E a better game entirely. There is also an advanced character edit mode -- you can create your own general using quite a few different models and fighting styles. Also, if you've played DW4 and have used the character edit option, you'll notice that your created character will only have a silouhette for a portrait. Not so in DW4E. The created characters look and act just like the real generals (although they don't have as cool of outfits as the real generals IMO). There is also a VS. mode allowing you to play head to head with a human or CPU player with 4 different modes (to be honest I haven't really played the VS. mode much). And like all Dynasty games there is an Archives that will allow you to view artwork and backgrounds of each general. If you are a fan of addicting hack n slash action with a mild strategic element involved (believe me it is MILD, not hard to figure out at all and DOES NOT affect gameplay if you're not one who likes that sort of thing), then pick this game up and give it a try. If you are a fan of the Dynasty Series, this is a must have!

Pros:
-Empires mode adds a whole new spin on gameplay
-Advanced character edit gives you more options and makes you feel more a part of the game due to character portraits
-Archive mode allows you to identify more with each General
-Replay value is high due to being able to conquer the map using lots of different combinations of Generals
-Graphics are good and the soundtrack is even better - never gets annoying and doesn't overpower the gameplay
-Play as any general in your force at any time - even the generic looking men (the ones you will most likely use as liutenats)
-Recruit your favorite generals to create an army full of favorites

Cons:
-Too many generic looking generals/liutenants - there are only 3 different character styles for the generic (not main) generals

$$$DYNAST WARRIORS 4: EMPIRES$$$

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is game is very fun. It is a great game, as it can kind of teach you about the ancient civilizations of China and how the feudal hierarchy works. It is also great for gaming freaks or it can be something you can take your anger out on, because sometimes there is a great big group of enemies and you just rush through and slash them all down or use your musou attack and massacre a dozen at a time. It is a great game.
You also have other features like VS mode where you can fight against a Player 2 in different verse modes, and Edit Mode where you get to create your own custom character and add details to it, including what kind of weapon he/she holds, voice, clothes, and more. There is also an art gallery where you are able to view people in the game.
But, a game always has its down-sides to it, and that is why I rated this game's overall four stars. One of the cons is, when you are fighting, and archers some distance away are shooting at you and you keep getting stunned right there on the spot, and just when you are getting out of the stun, another one hits you, and the other archer right next to him hits you, and the other archer, and the other archer... It takes a while for you to get all the way up to them and slash them. Another con is the sorceresses. They are extremely annoying. They come in about groups of five or so. They keep hitting you with their spells and you keep falling down, just like the archers, except sorceresses are more powerful. They are also worse. They keep stunning you right there on the spot and you can't get up off the ground for like thirty seconds, because everytime you get up, another spell hits you and you fall back down again. Soon, you are forced to waste away your musou gauge for that little group of five sorceresses, and if you don't want to waste it, then you will be wasting your time running up to that group trying to slash them, and when you are one inch from them, they hit you again, and they run away to give you another distance to run to hit them. The last con, is when an enemy officer is riding an elephant and they just happen to corner you... This is the worst con in the whole game... They will run up to you and you will fall down, and push you up to a corner, and since they are after you, they will keep riding into that corner with their elephant and you will keep getting hit over and over and over again, and you can't escape because the elephant is so big you can't even move. You are just stuck there until you lose that battle. It is very cheap. That is the reason I rated this game four stars. It is still a pretty good game, but watch out for these.

Fun slasher game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

_Okay. So I bought this game mainly on the basis of my friend's recommendation. I was extremely happy with it, and surprised by the sheer fun of this game. Kill hundreds of enemy soldiers using many many unique weapons and styles of combat, and conquor China. I won't go into every specific detail about gameplay, but I will say this was a very well made game. I'll break it down in an attempt to overview important buying info.

-Graphics: Good. Not great, but good. Game experiances phantom slowdowns every once in a while though. Not -often- but so far three times in the time I've played it. I've beaten the game once, and I'm halfway through it again.

-Music: To be honest I've never noticed the in-game music. Too busy slaughtering unworthy minions. I really like the menu backround music though. Catchy.

-Gameplay: It's been said in other reviews that you will encounter enemy officers so absurdly cheap that they will juggle you from full health to nothing without you ever hitting the ground. I bought this game assuming it was an exaggeration by frustrated gamers. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE :( Okay, with that out of the way, comes the other incredibly annoying point in gameplay. Archers/sourcers. Ranged attacks that will range from knocking you back (stopping your momentum), to knocking you straight on your butt. Absurdly cheap and annoying and they appear in large groups. Good news is that they don't deal any appreciable amount of damage and can be disposed of quickly enough. Bad news is that they tend to appear alongside cheap officers.
__Okay, those points made, comes the good news. Officers are (keywords here) *not commonly* that cheap. The game makes it however so you have to be just as cheap in defeating them to stand any chance. But it's possible. Take note that charged attack combos are your friends. And for fair warning, I just went around, killed 820 minions in a battle (took 25 minutes), then got double-teamed by two such cheap officers.
___My last issue with gameplay is arrows. You get a bow and can use it at will. Aiming and firing is quite simple, and it does a decent amount of damage. The main use for it is hitting distant archers or dismounting people riding on war elephants. (you get to ride elephants and horses in this game, yes). What's my beef? You get a very limited number of arrows to begin with, and finding them in battle is rare. I don't see any point in making a rarely used weapon even more worthless. It'd be *balanced* if you had unlimited, since I can take out literally 40 enemies for the time it takes to kill one via bow and arrow. So they really limited something already limited.

-Controls: Almost everything you'd want or need. Except the gaurd button. You are given a button that gaurds you against pretty much all attacks from the front. One would assume this would mean from just the very front, but apparently not. Enemy officers can block attacks even from the sides. You however, can only block attacks from the few pixels in the center of the screen. In other words, does not work 99% of the time. This would be a most negligible point since I've only ever needed to block against officers. Namely, the cheap ones. However, they can block with almost invernerability, while you can't ever block their attacks. Makes those cheap guys even more frustrating.
__Last point on controls however, you do get a taunt! Very funny, especially when you kill two or three people by taunting. In this catagory I'll list that the camera is of course in third person, and it works well. Gaurd button also functions to reorient the camera behind you, which you will need to do from time to time.

-Replay: A game's true value will always boil down to it's replay value. I think the replay value is high. You can always start a new conquoring campaign. And campaigns will always be different every time. The other empires struggling for control will do different things each time, form different alliances, invade different areas and all that. Plus...the campaign mode comes with a "fictional" mode, where you start a campaign with RANDOMLY placed enemies. That just makes it all so much more interesting.

-Edit character mode: The product hilight makes much mention of the character edit mode. It's slightly overrated however. The game gives you access to MANY, MANY unique weapons, which is a big plus. And any custom character can use any weapon. But when it comes down to making your stats, you get only 7 different pre-made sets to work with. Something I found out is that character's run speed, not listed in the stat sets, is also effected by what you choose. Anyway, when it comes to your character's model, the options you get for dressing them up is vastly limited. Definitely better than nothing, don't get me wrong. But for a system that supposedly has been upgraded from a previous game, couldn't they give me more than 3 different heads for my chosen body type?
__In basic, it's nice, but don't expect as much as you'd get from the latest Wrestlemania game.

-Multiplayer: Weak at best. Don't get this game expecting it to be a fantastic multiplayer game. You get four different verses battles, none of which is particularly exiting. Co-op story mode would have been very easily programmed in, and this game would have been fantastic with it. Oh well.

-Other notes: This is definitely a slaher game, but it has its strategy elements to it. Pick who you bring into battle, what political moves you make, manage your gold. How you use your leadership may make your life incredibly difficult or easy, depending on what you do and what sort of luck you have that game. Remember things are different each time, so choose your decisions wisely.

_I gave this a fun rating of 5, because I think it is, but overall is 4 due to cheap officer fights. A little bit of cheapness here and there wouldn't be aggrevating, but spending 25 minutes decimating close to a kilo of troops to be gang-raped by two cheap officers? That's just not cool. As I said before, luckily it doesn't happen often, but if you play through the campaign mode it will happen to you, no doubt.
_I would rate this title a definite buy. How it stands against other Dynasty games I do not know, as this is my first. If that is the information you seek, I'd advise reading articles posted by others who have played them. Standing alone, this is a very fun game however.

The Best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

get this game and be happy until Dynasty Warriors 5 and if your as anxius as me you cant wait to have DYNASTY WARRIORS 5

The BEST Dynasty Warriors game until Dynasty Warriors 5!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the best Dynasty Warriors game I`ve played!! Taking over regions makes the levels sooooo much more CHALLENGING! And instead of just going and killing the leader you have to take over part of the region to make the leader come out and fight.And the new endings are cool but some of them are hard to unlock.Its cool how when you take over a region you get to hire the officers from the enemies team and make them be on your team but you need gold Its like money to hire the officers some officers are like 3200 tokens of gold while some other officers are as cheap as 1200 tokens of gold.The cheap ones are the worst,their weapon may be high in attack but there not that great.In this game its like a real war you can form an alliance with the enemy for up to 8 turns and they will help you in attack or defense.When you make a game you can choose a fictional or historical game,In fictional mode you can choose who want to be your leader like Lubu or Sunce but on historical mode you have to choose a certain force to be on like Dong Zhou or Sun Jian.On fictional mode when you choose a region you get 2 other warriors on your team beside the leader you have to choose a good region with good peeps if you dont you may have a hard time beating the game but thats okay the more challenging the better the more experience the better so you can be ready for DYNASTY WARRIORS 5!!.Dynaty Warriors 5 comes out soon I hope. I cant wait for this game I hear its going to be sooo cool!!With tones of new features its bound to be GREATEST GAME EVER!!! Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires is much more fun then Dynasty Warriors 4 Extreme Legends I didnt find this game as fun as Dynasty Warrior 4 Empires plus on this game you can play different peeps lik Cao Pi or Zhang Lu those kind of peeps,its cool being new peeps instead of being the same peeps over and over again. Once again this is the BEST Dynasty Warriors game I`ve played..........Until Dynasty Warriors 5 finally comes out and we all will be playing our PS2 for hours upon hours upon hours. Cant wait for DYNASTY WARRIORS 5 It will be the coolest game ever yeah!!! :) :) :)

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