Easily the best Dynasty Warriors Game in years. Takes the old formula and upgrades it into something truly amazing.

User Rating: 8 | Gundam Musou 2 PS3
By *owtlaw1 | Review Date:
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 is much more than what it sounds like, a Dynasty Warriors game with Gundam characters. It is a game unto itself where timelines are merged, characters from one Gundam universe must ally with those from another in order to protect not only themselves, but Earth as well. Bonds are forged while they fight in either the name of peace, or for their own selfish goals, and for once this is a true statement. As you progress through the game, shooting down enemies and saving allies, the game actually keeps track of these actions. Your relationship with other pilots will either grow, causing them to come to your aid in battle at which point you can do devastating Specialty moves together, or decrease at such a rate that the second the enemy pilot hits the field they will come straight at you with a level of bloodlust which blinds them completely. This within itself makes it an evolution of gaming, where no longer will the AI continue to be your friend if you ignore it's pleas for help or pays no mind to the fact that you seem to constantly go after a single enemy pilot.

Yet even with the relationships put aside, and the fact that the game has so many missions and unlockables that one can easily spend over a hundred hours playing, the gameplay has gotten a good tweak as well. The thruster gauge, an indicator which allows you to dash across fields, has been lengthened so that you can get from Point A to Point B with ease, as long as you are willing to go through hundreds of enemies on your way there. Also using your thrusters you can now lengthen a combo by merely thrusting at the right time, causing a thruster combo which can send an enemy flying through the air so that you can continue to pummel them without an ounce of mercy. Also, if you cross beam swords with a rival pilot you will enter a real time button combination, the buttons are chosen at random, and the victor will push back his enemy and get a few shots in at the same time.

Sure, at it's heart the game can feel like just another iteration of Dynasty Warriors, but if you give it a chance it truly is much more. Yet for those critics who will only focus on the parts which are similar to the others in the series, let me ask you something. What is so different from Halo 1 or 2? What about Madden 2008 and 2009? In the very least this game takes the old formula and truly does everything possible to make a game which is amazing, instead of merely placing a 2 in front of a name which we already know and praying no one notices that there is truly no difference.

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