Cut From The Same Cloth | Samurai Warriors 4 Review

<p>Tecmo Koei has been giving gamers the <em>Warriors<&sol;em> series for quite some time now&comma; through four gaming generations to be exact&period; The games have taken us from China to Japan and even to Hyrule&comma; and they rarely change their formula in the games&comma; which has made them quite successful&period; <em>Samurai Warriors 4<&sol;em> is their latest release and it certainly stays true to form&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;ve not played a <em>Warriors<&sol;em> game before&comma; you will not have a difficult time getting into the swing of things&period; The game is one huge hack and slash&comma; combined with some RPG elements that gives you bonuses for replaying levels over and over&period; Hardcore gamers love this series because of how many hours they can lose to the game&comma; and casual gamers can pick up a controller and make fifty guys go flying into the air with the swing of a pike&period; The<em> Warriors<&sol;em> games&comma; whether you love them or hate them&comma; do have something for everybody&period; We were lucky to be given an advanced copy of the game&comma; however not all of the gameplay elements were unlocked in the download&period; So I am reviewing what I was allowed to play&comma; and I will explain what else will come with the full release&comma; even though I never got to play it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unlike <em>Dynasty Warriors<&sol;em>&comma; which takes place in China&comma; <em>Samurai Warriors<&sol;em> takes place in Japan&comma; which is nice&period; One can only hear about all the battles in China during the Feudal Era so often&period; With <em>Samurai Warriors 4&comma;<&sol;em> I got to learn about all the battles that took place in Japan&period; I do realize they have been sensationalized&comma; but there are some facts drifting around during the narrated cut scenes&period; <em>Assassins Creed<&sol;em> takes characters from history and plugs them into the game&comma; the Warriors game does the same thing&comma; only you get to play as those characters&comma; not just assassinate or befriend them&period; So&comma; in a way&comma; as you play <em>Samurai Warriors 4<&sol;em>&comma; you are getting a Japanese history lesson&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;11&sol;05062105&sol;samurai-warriors-4-playstation-4-screenshot-02&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68949" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;11&sol;05062105&sol;samurai-warriors-4-playstation-4-screenshot-02&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Samurai Warriors 4" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"337" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The controls are quite simple and easy to pick up&period; Square is your normal attack that you&&num;8217&semi;ll repeatedly press to down enemies&period; Triangle is your power attack that takes more damage off of foes&comma; and flings plenty of them into the air&period; Depending on which character you are playing at the moment&comma; triangle could be a hyper attack for certain characters&period; R1 is special skill which uses a meter that builds up as you kill countless minions&comma; and L1 is block&period; Nothing too difficult there&comma; which is a good thing&comma; if you had to fight hundreds of enemies at the same time with horrible controls&comma; the game would suffer greatly&period; Anyone could pick this game up and have some fun&comma; they may not be proficient at it&comma; but they&&num;8217&semi;ll enjoy slaughtering hundreds of people&period; That is one of the huge draw to this series&comma; hardcore gamers can unlock everything and shoot for every trophy&comma; where casual gamers can plan and blow off steam from their day&period; Everyone is a winner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unfortunately I was only able to play the first level in all the character&&num;8217&semi;s story modes&period; This allowed me to learn about feudal Japan&comma; and a lot about the game&period; Controls are easy to pick up&comma; history is easy to pick up&comma; and the game looks great&period; Tecmo has always had very pretty graphics&comma; so seeing them on the PS4 hardware makes them even better&period;  You can also take two characters into the level and switch off between them to defeat your foes&period; This helps you obtain the objectives faster&comma; and will help you win your battles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While you play as one character&comma; the other one goes on a path and does its own thing&comma; when you take over&comma; you are where they are&period; So if your second character happens to be at a mission point&comma; you can switch to them and beat that mission before any time limit runs out&period; This duel character enhancement to the game makes Story Mode much more enjoyable and easier to maneuver through&period; Story Mode is probably tent-pole to this game&comma; this is where you power up your main character and unlock weapons&comma; moves and mounts to use when you replay levels&period; Tecmo loves to make sure that as a gamer&comma; you get your sixty dollars worth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;12&sol;05052618&sol;samurai-warriors-4-2&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70237" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;12&sol;05052618&sol;samurai-warriors-4-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Samurai Warriors" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The three modes that I was unable to play seem pretty interesting to me&period; In Free Mode&comma; you can play any story level with any character&period; This means you can level up your characters without having to grind over and over in their certain story levels&period; In Chronicle Mode you can take a character into Feudal Japan and run missions and level up more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Finally&comma; in Dojo Mode&comma; you can create your own character and use them in the game&period; All of these modes add hours more onto an already monumental game&period; I cannot imagine how much more time I would have put into this game&comma; had all the Modes been available to me&period; The <em>Warriors<&sol;em> games are yet to let me down&period; I am fairly new to the series&comma; but when I hear about them&comma; I get a little excited to play them&period; I hope that Tecmo Koei has some more of these entries up their sleeves&comma; so that I can set them next to this game on my shelf&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;