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Dynasty Warriors 2 strikes big in the U.S.
I purchased this game along with my PlayStation 2 for Christmas. I was NOT dissapointed at all! The game has excellent graphics with an excellent story line to bring the history of China back to modern day life. Choose one of the Dynasty Warriors and become a legend of China. Fight through ( 5 ) different stages destroying hundreds of troops, privates, seargents, majors, captains, generals, and other feirce warriors. I would have to say that this game is the most addictive game that I have on PS2 for now. I have Madden 2001, TimeSplitters, Smugglers Run= 2 thumbs down, and Dynasty Warriors 2= Great game. I love hopping on a horse and just slicing through a salvo of troops. I have already unlocked alot of characters. By the way, if you want to defeat Lu Bu, then just keep your block up. Press the attack button after the first block while holding down the block button too. It's Lu Bus ONLY weakness. I hope this revierw is helpful. Now go to the battlefields of china and become a legendary hero!

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Nice combo of real-time strategy and hack-and-slash fun.
Dynasty Warriors 2 is one of four games I currently own (including Tekken Tag, Ridge Racer V, and Madden 2001), and quite frankly, Dynasty Warriors has been the only one I've played on PS2 since I bought the game. By way of history, I'm an old gamer, and have been playing Koei games since "Nobunaga's Ambition" back on the NES, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms through its various incarnations. Koei took a SimCity approach to ancient warfare in China and Japan and the results were city micromanagement and hexagonal warfare with many of the characters currently in Dynasty Warriors 2. And they're all here...Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Lui Bei, Zhao Yun -- except this time they're full size animated characters with individualized weapons and attacks. Zhang Fei uses a snake spear, while Dian Wei uses a huge axe, and so on. The action is fast and furious, but also progresses better when a plan is executed. By looking at the map prior to game play, or pressing "start" during game play, the player sees where the enemy generals are fighting (knocking them out opens gates, and drops morale of the enemy boss). There are also smaller maps (pressing R2 switches overhead perspective) showing where the flow of the battle is going (the enemy is orange, the "good guys" blue). I have come to depend on these "onscreen" maps, as you can get lost without them. Hints that I've noticed: 1.) it's hard to do, but try to keep your bodyguards alive, otherwise you're fighting solo...try to build them up in the "free" mode so they get tougher; 2.) take out archers ASAP...they become a huge pain in the neck; 3.) try to team up on tougher generals with another good allied general on your side -- you can sometimes just swoop in after the target is banged up and finish him off with a special move; 4) break all the boxes and jars for saves, health and "mosou" (special move) power-ups. Graphics-wise the game is excellent, with little pixilation, beautiful scenery and cut-scenes. Drawbacks are the repetitious nature of free mode, the fact that levels 3 and higher are VERY hard (at least in normal mode), and the annoying ability of the tougher generals to FULLY re-heal in a second. In any event, Koei has set a great standard for other games to follow and here's hoping they move into similar PSII simulations for perhaps the American Civil War, Waterloo, WWII or other scenarios.

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What a great game.
This is it, the first Dynasty Warriors for the PlayStation 2. This game is so fantastic, and so addictive.

You take command of one of the legendary warriors of China's Three Kingdoms period, and run through famous battles, killing as many enemy troops and officers as possible. It's a very simple concept. You simply run around and kill people. Why is this so fun? Well... because you're running around and killing each other. What could be more fun?

This is the first game of its type to be on such a large scale. At any given time, there could be thousands of troops on the field, and hundreds in your sight. Depending on your character, you can use a spear, sword, axe, mace or a number of other weapons. What fun!

You are part of one force, Shu, Wei or Wu, and pretty much, you try and destroy the other forces. The game is fairly linear, so you dont choose your battles. Only your character. Even the choice of your force is out of your hands.

Yet still, even after doing every battle 20 or 30 times, the game is still so exciting. It's different everytime. The enemy acts differently, your allies act differently. Anything could happen.

I so highly recommend this game. At this point, there are a number of expansions, but this one is the cheapest, and its a classic. Some stages are best in this game. Its definitely worth checking out.