Capturing a Missile Base field launches a missile at another field to do serious damage, capturing a Forward Base fills your partner gauge and causes it to regenerate constantly (more on that later), and capturing a Repair Hanger restores the armor gauge for all allied aces. No longer simply spaces to be captured which generate weak NPCs, fields now offer a variety of advantages and affects. The first of the major changes is in the fields themselves. Fortunately, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 is looking to break that trend, and offers some of the largest changes to the franchise since its inception. This sounds more tactical than it really is in practice, and Dynasty Warrirors often boils down to the simple hack-and-slash elements to really determine victory. Attacks are executed with a simple combo system, generally focusing heavily on melee abilities and chains. The game plays out on a battlefield divided into several individual “fields” which must be captured to shift a battle meter to your advantage. As you can imagine, there’s a lot to do, and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 offers more than 300 different missions in all.Īll the basic gameplay elements of the franchise return for Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3. Memorial Missions are unlocked after completing certain tasks and offer new rewards and more upgrades, Challenge Missions are extra-hard challenges, Friendship Missions allow you to find new pilots and operators, Relationship Missions let you develop further friendships with those pilots and operators, and Special Missions are for gold farming. History Missions replay various famous moments in Gundam history, and Collection Missions allow you to gather plans for specific mobile suits. Each pilot will have a set of story missions available to him as well as a variety of other mission types. Story Mode is played out exactly as it was in the previous Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games. Their communication is believable and in-line with their individual personalities, and the effect is heightened by the sheer volume of available pilots, partners, and operators, all of which interact both in and out of combat. As a Gundam fan who has seen the majority of entries in the metaseries, I was impressed with how well the characters were represented. More important than the story is the presence of dozens of fan favorite characters, and the ability to see them interact with one another. It’s a flimsy excuse for a mash-up game, but is there ever a good one? The story is told through several branching paths for groups of pilots which converge first into two branches (mostly representing “bad guys” and “good guys”) and then finally into one branch for the last few battles and the final boss. Various pilots from various eras and dimensions have been transported to an alternate universe (mysteriously full of familiar locales from their various realities), and seek a way back to their correct planes of existence. There’s a story behind Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3, but you aren’t likely to care about it. Through that lens I have found Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 to be a satisfying, if still somewhat flawed, experience. As a critic I try to review games for their intended audience, and as a long-time Gundam fan I believe that includes me. Both sides make valid points about the game, and the truth of the game’s quality is likely somewhere in-between the beliefs of both parties. That is fans love it, and critics hate it. Of course, again, all of this content is somewhat hampered by the fact that the game does get repetitive, and there are glaring omissions in the mobile suit roster, but there’s no denying it’s a massive game.ĭynasty Warriors as a franchise tends to ignite a love-hate relationship. The field controlling game seems almost perfectly suited to competitive multiplayer, and the franchise would do well to add it in the future. It does, however, highlight the lack of further multiplayer in the franchise. It’s not a particularly robust online system, but it does encourage cooperation, and the 15 missions available are fun. In addition, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 offers an online multiplayer co-op mode for the first time ever. The single-player campaign alone took me 35 hours, though it’s possible to complete it faster. More than 50 mobile suits, more than 70 pilots, and more than 300 missions total well over 100 hours of content to play and unlock. If there is a value standard for action games the Dynasty Warriors franchise would surely hold it, if it didn’t get so repetitive.
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