Never played these games before, looks kinda fun to be honest. :)

Do you fight with your own army in the game or do you fight alone?

deleterguy

You fight alongside an army against an army, but you only control one character in a battle. In story mode, this character is chosen for you (in DW7) but in chronicle mode you can pick one of 63 different characters. You cannot change your charcter mid-battle and you don't direct troops. Generally you just masacure their troops and officers and rack up hundreds (even thousands) of kills. Normal enemies generally just stand there and let you kill them (though some try to fight back. All the worse for them) but officers can be quite a challenge, especially on the higher difficulties. I can't give all the details as I have yet to get DW7, but what I've said applies to most past DW games.

I think it's fun but if you've read any of the earlier pages, you will notice that opinions on this differ. If you're not sure rent this game or see if there's a demo of a previous one available. I think there is a DW gundam one on XBL, but they're very different games. For one thing, that one has robots. I didn't like that one but I think the gameplay might be similar.

Got to use the Falcon and Tiger a bit.

I actually like the Falcon. He seem to be a bit more active than the wolf or tiger. Though it's weak.

The tiger is just a more powerful wolf. Still it's nice to have some extra help. I think it might be a bit more aggressive compared to the wolf.

timmy00

It seems like the guardian animals are just there for fun, rather than actually helping you. I kind of expected this but it would have been nice if they were useful and did have deffinate plusses and minuses. But hey, this games all about random fun really. Did I read correctly that you can have both a mount and a fighting animal. If so, I can see a bear-panda combination in my future...:D

Well I got my first uniques Guardian animal. A bear. :3

The bear work similar to a horse. You can mount it and attack people. While it's cool riding a bear, I prefer to take a horse. It's faster to kill people with your weapon and you can jump while on the bear.

timmy00

The fact that you can ride a bear is sweet. I can't wait to put Xu Zhu on one and ride against Lu Bu. WHOS LAUGHING NOW?!!!

I'm a PSWii owner

SuperFlakeman

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How in the world can somebody play one of these repetitive button mashers for more a few minutes?

GreySeal9

I don't know somebody could NOT think button mashing is dull.

Button mashers are inherently dull as you are pretty much doing the same thingover and over and over ad naseum. There's no nuance, no real challenge, no surprises.

I mean, I sort of agree with your second sentence in that button mashing may not be a dealbreaker if it's just relatively small part of the game and there's much more to the game, but this is not true as far as Dynasty Warriors is concerned. The game is composed almost entirely of fighting. Atleast God of War (which I don't like either) has a little bit of variation to it.

How in the world can somebody play one of these repetitive button mashers for more a few minutes?

GreySeal9