You can also collect parts to build completely new mobile suits, which allow your pilots to use different MS's when you unlock the ability and the license to do so. These pilots level up independently from their mobile suits, which are improved by parts you get as spoils of war from completing objectives. There is a wide selection of characters for you to choose from, a roster including almost every major character from almost every gundam anime (that?s allot). DWG2 adds it's own wrinkle, as most games do, with the booster button which allows you to rocket around the battlefield or perform body slamming booster attacks which can be chained from and into combo attacks, forming a complex dance of death for mowing through the hundreds of enemy Mobile Suits in your way. You run around the flat battlefield which is usually only slightly interesting to look at, and KILL EVERYTHING IN YOUR WAY. Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 does not divert from that, returning to a Pre-DW6 combat system (no Renbu here!) where light attacks are chained together with charge attacks to form combo moves used in various situations.
You are a titan amidst a sea of mooks, and it is your job to slaughter hundreds of these mooks and their slightly less mooky leaders on a mission to accomplish whatever goal it is your after - usually the end of war and violence(?). but it's awesome.ĭynasty Warriors games have followed the same basic formula for a decade. Musou has let nerds be Master Chief, since long before Master Chief ever existed. You fall into a rhythm as you raze all in your path to the ground, burning through button patterns with instinctive reaction. What they don't understand is that playing a Dynasty Warriors (or Musou, in Japan) game is about the experience of mowing through crowds of enemies, laying waste to them with your combo attacks.
The game play is shallow and repetitive button mashing, the graphics are bleh, the voices are lousy, and no matter how many of them are made the formula never changes. Non Koei-heads often have difficulty understanding why people continue to buy and play Dynasty Warrior's games.