Samurai Warriors 2
Samurai Warriors 2 takes you back in time, to an era where honor and swordplay defined everything. Long before the twilight of the samurai, Japan was ruled by powerful leaders hungry to unite the land under one banner. The samurai and ninja who defended their land and honor became legends. If you prove yourself worthy and honorable, you can join them. Team up with friends for two-player Co-op play or compete with them at Sugoroku, a bonus party game for up to 4 players Challenge an opponent in two-player Vs. play exclusively through Xbox Live
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars button mashing fun but woeful graphics
Graphics dont have to be amazing for a game to be fun but sheesh, the graphics here are genuinely poor. The framerate is soid and the character animations are OK but everything else is Playstation 2 quality. The terrain is bare as can be, and the polygons are few. You have been warned about the graphics!
The gameplay is buttonmashing with some lite RPG elements. It is fun though it will eventually get boring. The camera can sometimes be annoying. You’ll pull off a special move and the camera will have you facing away from the enemy after that move. And of course the enemy will come in from behind and hit you hard. You can defensively roll away but it still feels cheap when the enemy does it. The game is worth [...] bucks but honestly, not more than that.
4 Stars Took a good game and made it better.
When I got my hands on the first installment of Samurai Warriors, I thought it was a lot of fun. When I got this one, I was shocked to see how much they had improved on the original. The combat system is much more fluid and intuitive. The in-game store allows players to spend money earned in missions to customize the characters to better match the player’s own style. There are more playable characters than before, and individual story modes allow for quite a lot of replay value. Sadly, Koei removed the irritating character creation feature from the first game rather than fixing it. One of my favorite features, and the reason I bought it for Xbox 360 rather than PS2, is that the Xtreme Legends expansion pack is an Xbox Live downloadable patch rather than a separate disc that has to be swapped in and out during game-play. Some may consider this game just another hack-and-slash-fest from Koei, but as a fan of samurai, ninjas, and killing virtual opponents by the thousands, I highly recommend it.
4 Stars Samurai Warriors II
This game is a lot of fun. I would recommend it to people who enjoy playing strategy games.
4 Stars great beattem up
if you like beaten the tar out of who ever in front of you then get it if your looking for super inavation well look some where else i like this cause it reminds me of those dynasty warrior series if you like that then buy this like i did ok take care p.s. gundam style game thats out seem pretty cool
3 Stars If you’re even considering it, that means you’ll probably dig it
By that title, I mean that if you haven’t already played Warriors to death by now, if you even think you might want more, then you won’t be disappointed with this game, because it is the best Warriors title to date. And if you’ve never played Warriors before but want to try the series out (or even if you tried and didn’t like DW5:Empires), the gameplay and presentation aren’t exactly next-gen, but can still suck you in just as well as it could when the series began. I enjoy playing this game more than previous Warriors titles as well as Ninety-Nine Nights, and keep coming back to it even though I’ve unlocked just about everything.
While there aren’t as many characters as in DW, these are all quite different from each other, each has a unique story mode (except for 2 who didn’t need one), and they’re all fun to play as. Most of the new characters’ stories unfold after Nobunaga’s death, which was the climax of the first SW. The new special move that replaces the near-worthless bow adds another much-needed layer of depth to their moves, and some are really funny (like Nene’s ability to turn into an enemy soldier).
The gameplay and engine are fundamentally the same from previous Warriors titles (which is the main reason I only gave it a 3-star overall rating), but the little tweaks make for a much more satisfying play experience. The difficulty is just right (that is, it’s not hard for the wrong reasons, like enemies just having too much health or allies dying too fast). The segmented musou bar adds flexibility to your attack timing. You can rotate the camera fluidly with the right stick. Your bodyguard is actually pretty helpful. The English voices are actually not bad (I’m not cringing every time Okuni or Ranmaru talk anymore). You can make an interim save any time in the middle of a battle. There’s no hard cap on your characters’ skills.
Survival mode is a bit more interesting this time around with its variety of missions you can undertake as you make your way up the floors.
The new game mode, Sugoroku, is rather blah except in small doses. It tried to borrow from both Monopoly and Mario Party but lost a lot from both in the transition. It’s also slanted towards more speedy characters since the mini-games are usually races, though it really comes down to who gets the best dice rolls and card draws.
My major gripe with this game, and it may only be my personal problem, is that I can almost never maintain a connection to a game over Xbox Live. I almost always get the “connection lost” message before the fight even starts, and then the battle gets recorded as a loss for me! This is the only game where I have such a problem so I doubt it’s my connection, and it’s a major bummer because I enjoy the online battle mode. The format is weird and subject to exploits, but if your opponent fights honorably (as a samurai should), then it’s quite fun.
My minor gripes are the fact that sometimes characters still fade-out when they shouldn’t, and some of the unlocks are an unnecessary chore.
All said and done, it’s still by and large a formulaic Warriors game, so you know what you’re getting into. If that’s okay with you as it was for me, then you won’t be disappointed, either.
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