At its best – and Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires is usually at its best – the moment-to-moment play represents the very best of the Warriors series, where you’ve got a half dozen different objectives in front of you, and you know that the succcess of the battle very much rests on your sword (or whatever other wildly creative weapon you take into battle).īacking this up is some light strategic elements that have been designed to appeal to people that otherwise wouldn’t play too many strategy games.
The goal is, rather than successfully follow the story of the battle, to capture these key points, boosting your force, and both foil your opponent’s manoevers while making sure yours succeed. Where a historical battle, as depicted in a standard Warriors entry, might involve a fire attack at a certain point of time, or reinforcments arriving somewhere else on the battlefield, in Empires, you and your opponent both set tactical manoevers, and then clash on battlefields that are covered in bases and other key strategic locations. See, unlike the main Warriors games, where each battlefield offers up a story that follows along with a historical conflict, and that meant that you were at its mercy, the Empires games are largely story free, and instead it allows you to write your own journal of conquest and heroism. I think I might just love this one the most. I’ve played dozens of Warriors games at this point, and for the most part loved them. The good news for them is that Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires is a more traditional Warriors experience, and it is brilliant. Sadly, it also fell flat with many fans, and did so in a big way. All that remained was an assault on Cao Cao’s position…ĭynasty Warriors 9 was a noble experiement by Koei Tecmo to bring open world gameplay to the Warriors series. At that point, the tables were thoroughly turned and we were just about successful in our defence. A single good counter-attack and your entire assault is over. That’s the downside to massing your forces in one spot. Luckily, at the last moment I completed my objective and, dramatically barrelling into the small mob of commanders that had pinned her, I was able to unleash a fireball that cleared the area. While I set about capturing key points on the battlefield to initialise a fire attack that would even the odds a little, Lady Sun was doing an admirable job of holding back a major assault, but it was starting to go south.
A large force led by Cao Cao had attacked one of my more remote territories, and the task of holding down an entire flank was left on her.
My spouse (Lady Sun Shangxiang, no less!), who I had been wooing for years before finally tying the knot, was in trouble.
0 kommentar(er)
