Shinging Finger Surprise!
Alright then, first off i'm going to say that if your looking for a new great Dynasty Warriors game with an original approach! Well... you better keep looking. Not to say that the game is bad, but like most other games that i'm seeing out now a days, it's nothing new. If you use your imagination to swap out giant robots for Japanese men, then you wouldn't know it was a new game at all. That said, if your looking for something that you've done before, with a new storyline, then your in the right place. If your a gundam fan (like myself) then the game will be good enough to get you by, just on sheer fandom alone. The game delivers three main modes of play, Official mode, Original mode, and Verses. Official mode offers the player the storyline of their selected character, from the anime series that they are in. For example playing as Armuro, allows you to follow his storyline from the One year war. And while I havn't seen every episode of every Gundam series ever made, I noticed that in Armuro's story mode, it missed alot of important things that would make no sense to the player unless they heard it somewhere else. This of course doesn't come as a surprise as they "try" to compress his entire story line into 4 levels, and of course you can't get much in from that. Original mode is something that most gundam fans will enjoy more. As the name implies it follows an original story, that mixes in most of the main characters from all of the gundam series into one big mixing pot, where (for whatever reason) they are all present together and interact. The storyline in the original mode is that there is a bright red planet floating in space. At it's present course, it will crash into the planet earth and destroy it. All of the gundam pilots are drawn to this planet with the rumor that "Who ever controls the power of this planet, will have the power to acomplish anything", and of course all of the pilots of their own reasons for wanting this power, that ties into their own storyline. The reason why most gundam fans will enjoy this mode over the offical one, is because the pairings that they have in the three differant "teams" are very well chosen. For example you have Master Asia, Jerid, and Heero, all one side. And it's fun to see how they all interact with each other.
Verses Mode is nothing particularly special, it has an option of two differant PVP options, and one option which is basicly "Who can kill the most weak units" modes. This isn't too surprising concidering it's all still dynasty warriors.
Overall, it's a decent game, and I would suggest renting it before making serious decisions about buying, but even then I would think twice. The one thing that this game seriously lacks, is enjoyible replay value. Granted you will enjoy yourself playing through all the characters in their original and offical modes. But each character only get 9 or 10 levels (that's counting both modes) and then the only replay option you have, is replaying the same levels you've already done, just with all your current skills and parts. What this game lacked as oppose to games like Samurai warriors, is a free play mode where you can enjoy your characters after you've finished their storylines. The only benefit you get really, is that when you play that character in the levels you've already finished, you can play him in any other mobile suit that you've beat the game with. Which is cool, but in the end your still stuck playing the same level, with the same people.
In the end I would say that it's a good game, but don't buy it, save your money and rent it. After your done the story modes, you won't play it much after that.