Mech-A-Rad | Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn Review

<p>This reviewer is a Gundam newbie&period; I have never played a Gundam game before nor did I ever watch the Anime when it was on Cartoon Network&period; Oddly enough&comma; these factors made me the perfect person to review <em>Dynasty Warriors&colon; Gundam Reborn<&sol;em> as I had no prior biases&comma; which may have sullied my thoughts on the game&period; The perfect game for a first timer&comma; the game includes six campaigns that go through the the history of the Gundam universe&period; The first campaign puts you in control of  Amuro Ray and the first Gundam ever&comma; RX-78-2 Gundam&period; What is a Gundam you may ask&quest; Think of it as a giant robot that can be piloted to fight&period; Think <em>Pacific Rim<&sol;em>&comma; but with only one pilot and instead of fighting Kajui&comma; you are fighting other Gundams&period; The campaigns up to Unicorn all take place during the Universal Century&comma; the rest in their own universe&period; This adds both continuity and diversity in the game&comma; once you grow weary of the Universal Century you can play in other universes with different Gundams and different enemies to fell&period; <em>Dynasty Warriors<&sol;em> games have always been filled to the brim with content and <em>Gundam Reborn<&sol;em> is no different&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are two modes to this game&colon; Campaign and Ultimate&period; Campaign mode is pretty straight for ward&comma; you are given the aforementioned six campaigns to play through and these are short snippets of story from the anime&period; Ultimate mode is where you can pick Gundams from any universe and play missions to gain bonuses and unlock other Gundams&comma; people&comma; items and so on&period; As stated earlier&comma; you get bang for buck with any<em> Dynasty Warriors<&sol;em> game&period; After playing through the campaign missions&comma; if you have a friend who is as into Gundams as you&comma; you can co-op the campaign&period; The same goes for Ultimate Mode&comma; every level you beat you unlock in online co-op and add hours more onto the already over 40 hours of content&period; However&comma; this game does get repetitive as you go through the same maps to accomplish the same missions&comma; so that can get very tiring&period; If you have extreme game OCD though&comma; this is definitely a game you need to get on your shelf&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;07&sol;05090447&sol;1549537&lowbar;432934040180342&lowbar;342100087587867018&lowbar;n&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63703" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05090447&sol;1549537&lowbar;432934040180342&lowbar;342100087587867018&lowbar;n&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Dynasty Warriors Bago Games" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As you go through both modes you begin to gain Plans that upgrade your Gundam&comma; with some of them upgrading things such as armor&comma; weapons and speed and you are allowed to combine them to make your Gundam the most powerful on the playing field&period; The more enemies you kill means more loot dropped to upgrade you Gundam&period; Also make sure you leave no crate whole for they hold skills&comma; materials and plans to make you even stronger&period; You can also pick up material while battling and these materials are used to upgrade your weapons&period; The more you pick up the better you can make your blaster rifle or your sword&comma; so keep an eye out&period; All of these upgrades make the levels so desirable to replay because you want to become the strongest Gundam you can be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The controls of this game are simple and very easy to master&period; Tecmo Koei was very smart to make them simple&comma; if they were more complicated it would make the campaign mode a chore instead of a treat&period; Circle is the standard attack button and you&&num;8217&semi;ll find yourself mashing that button a lot&comma; sending hundreds of mechs to their doom&period; Triangle shoots your long range weapon&comma; X is run&comma; but you don&&num;8217&semi;t really need to run as you can use your boosters to traverse the games&&num;8217&semi; map quicker&period; R2 activates your special move that is different for each mech you have and for the different partners you will have&comma; R1 is float&comma; which allows you to take out the pesky enemies above you and R3 is lock on&comma; which comes in handy when you are fighting a boss as he won&&num;8217&semi;t be able to hide from you in crowds of other mechs&period; A huge glowing arrows shows you his location so that you can take him off the field&period; This game is very easy for beginners to use and for seasoned players to enjoy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The graphics that welcome you into this world are great&comma; the detail on the Gundams really pop off the screen and that screen fills up fast with enemies you need to slay&period; Sadly the enemies all look alike with just color variations&comma; so that&&num;8217&semi;s disappointing&period; However&comma; the Gundam bosses you fight look pretty good as you battle&period; The cut scenes are pulled directly from the anime and look a bit dated at times&comma; some of the cartoons featured date back to the 70s&period; However&comma; Retro isn&&num;8217&semi;t a detriment to me&comma; I love the old stylish look of the cut scenes&comma; it makes the game stand out&period; When you play Ultimate mode though it is quite funny when they match up older anime with newer anime&comma; you can totally tell the decades that separate the actual characters&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;07&sol;05090455&sol;DynastyWarriorsGundamReborn&lowbar;KeyArt&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63695" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05090455&sol;DynastyWarriorsGundamReborn&lowbar;KeyArt-1024x635&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Dynasty Warriors" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you are new to Gundam the universe&comma; <em>Dynasty Warriors&colon; Gundam Reborn<&sol;em> is a great starting point for you&period; Seeing that I am one of those newcomers&comma; the more I play the more I want to find out about this anime and the world&period; For fans of the Gundam series this is a great game that takes you through important story points throughout the anime&period; It is a win&sol;win for both parties&period; The only two negative factors that I could find with this game is the fact that it is downloadable only in the States&period; This means that if you hard-drive is almost filled&comma; you won&&num;8217&semi;t be able to enjoy smashing Gundams&period; The other detriment is the fact that when they localized the game they didn&&num;8217&semi;t record English voice-overs&comma; so you&&num;8217&semi;re stuck reading the translation as you listen to Japanese&period; This does make me want to learn Japanese&comma; but I don&&num;8217&semi;t like having to battle while also reading what my next objective is because it&&num;8217&semi;s being barked to me in a language I don&&num;8217&semi;t understand&period; These two little problems should not stop you from purchasing <em>Dynasty Warriors&colon; Gundam Reborn<&sol;em> though&comma; I knew next to nothing about Gundam when I fired up the game&comma; and now I want to know as much as I can&period; Every day I find myself being pulled away from other games in my library just so I can see what happens to Amuro next&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;