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Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce Updated Hands-On |
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Last time, Koei stopped by to give us an idea of how the multiplayer will work in its upcoming PlayStation Portable game Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce, in which four players can team up to fight endless enemy hordes via ad hoc. This time, we're playing on an updated build to see how the action-oriented single-player mode works. The PSP demo is also available on the PlayStation Network in case you want to get a head start and see what the game has to offer. The story is split into three kingdoms, so we decided to start with the Wu Kingdom and picked Xiao Qiao as our fearsome warrior.
For those familiar with the characters, Xiao Qiao is hardly the most vicious-looking fighter, but she's still incredibly fast and deadly with her pair of war fans. Each warrior has his or her specialty primary weapon, but the secondary weapon can be switched so that you can have access to a variety of weapons, including the handy long-ranged type. You have a fury gauge under your health bar that is constantly building as you take damage and deal it, and once it's full you can enter fury mode, which gives you more speed and the ability to fly. When playing solo, the large-scale action still feels intact, but the battlefields are more confined. Furthermore, depending on the mission, you're not always going to be up against a mob of generic fighters. It actually takes some maneuvering and finesse to take down these enemies instead of plowing through a wave of fighters and racking up that kill count.
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