Going into 'Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition,' I was glad to finally get a "complete edition," but my expectations for the game were not all that high.
This staggered releasing of incomplete games, (well before the era of DLC) coupled with a fatigue of a basic formula made it easy to stop playing the series though I did play one 'Gundam' version on the PS3 just to see what is was like. When 'Dynasty Warriors 4: Xtreme Legends' hit, I played it once, and was shocked to find it only contained the expansion content. When 'Dynasty Warriors 4' came out, I decided to wait until the inevitable expansion. I played so much 'Dynasty Warriors 3' I had to hack my PS3 memory card so I could have different save files in order to have room for each character's Story save. 'Dynasty Warriors 3' expanded on everything with more characters, battles (old battles were redone), weapons, and a two player mode, but it also was followed up by an expansion. The battles were epic, great at telling a story while providing a grand button mashing challenge. You see, 'Dynasty Warriors 2' on the PS2 really hooked me. And you can still run away to try to find health, hoping that the time spent looking doesn't mean a defeat-inducing event. You can still saunter up to an enemy officer, knock he or she down and then run around to their backside to be able to immediately hit them in the back when they stand, unleashing your charged Mosou attack whenever you feel overwhelmed or to make the best use of a 30 second attack times two power-up.
You still race around the battlefield using your mount, and watching out for unexpected events or changes that require your immediate attention. You still face battles knowing that it's important to keep your allied officers alive while taking out enemy officers amid the thousands of lesser enemy soldiers.
Though this latest game adds lots of wrinkles, such as another metered attack, Rage, the basics from the PS2 era could be enough to play well. In the Story Mode, you pick one of three houses (or the new Lu Bu campaign), pick one of the 82 characters and proceed to fight in large-scale battles against thousands of enemies all themed after 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' As on the PS2, you have a basic strike attack, a charge/heavy strike attack, jump, and a charge meter-based Mosou attack as the foundation of combat. Even in moving to the PS4, 'Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition' maintains the basic winning formula pioneered on the PS2 with 'Dynasty Warriors 2.' (This is a franchise that is numbered differently in Japan and is really the seventh numbered title, a fact which is occasionally made obvious in the game's UI.) Regardless of mode, you play in third person as one warrior on a large battlefield.
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