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Bladestorm is not just Dynasty Warriors in Europe with a attempt to be a hybrid of third person action and real-time strategy, but perhaps it would be better if it was...
It looks like Dynasty Warriors and you control a central figure who leads the troops into battle, but from there the two series diverge somewhat.
The game focuses on the famous war between England and France, but youll play a custom-created mercenary who can fight for either side.
On the battlefield, your performance (and that of the troops under your command) is reflected in real-time morale of both sides. Youll be able to control a variety of different unit typesfrom cavalry and basic sword-wielding grunts, to archers, and more advanced strike units.
You cant run around attacking at will by yourselfyour character does the same attacks you issue your troops to do. While the action is fast-paced, the gameplay isnt twitch-based. Once you get used to this odd style of gameplay the game makes sense, but unfortunately, its still not very interesting. The battles quickly start to feel repetitive, and the sides arent very different. The biggest problem, however, is the poor AI of both sides. Like most Dynasty Warrior games, the challenge is in overwhelming numbers and most of the action just feels mindless.
The visuals are decent, though again, it looks only slightly better than Omega Forces other titles. Characters are remarkably well detailed, but the locations are rather bland. The English voice acting is often laughably bad and the soundtrack is mostly forgettable.
Really feel that this pretty much just a recycling of their old games, combining kessen strategy with dynasty warriors action, and sticking a new (and rather uninspiring) surface of england vs france. This time they've just thrown away the storyline of Three Kingdoms and The Greatest of Heroes (DW Three Kingdoms) which is probably half responsible for the love from the millions of DW fans in the first place.
Good Luck to Koei if they're going to keep coming up with such unoriginal games, but it is an improvement.
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