While the environments are displayed correctly into the distance, people as little as ten feet away from your character will simply not display, and I did not find any option to tweak this shortcoming. The seemingly large battles in the game (one of the draws of Dynasty Warriors 6) are not presented as such, as you will commonly only see troops (both friendly and enemy) located immediately adjacent to your character. Probably the worst aspect of the graphics in Dynasty Warriors 6 is the horrible amount of pop-in very close to your character. The environments are not distinctive, running the gamut from “generic desert fort” to “generic mountains.” The camera is not located out far enough, leading to a lot of confusing battles with tons of people obscuring the view of your character. The rank-and-file troops are terribly repetitive, faceless cannon (well, sword) fodder. First, the highlights: the character models and animations are well-done, at least for the main characters and the various friendly and enemy officers. This is the first “next-gen” (meaning “almost as good as the PC”) game in the series, but Dynasty Warriors 6 is quite behind the curve in terms of graphics.
The graphics are, in a word, disappointing.
Plus, this is Dynasty Warriors 6, so it must be super awesome by this point, right? And extreme violence is always fun, killing untold numbers of opposing forces with the press of a button. Preferring strategy games as my weapon of choice, you could say good fighting games are very-real-time strategy games, countering opposing moves with split-second decisions. While the PC is certainly devoid of many fighting games, there’s always room for some compelling action on the system of the discerning gamer. It is, just like Out of Eight, big in Japan (actually I am big in Canada and the Netherlands, apparently), responsible for selling a lot of “PlayStation 3”s, whatever those are. What say you? An action-heavy fighting game, sophisticated it is not: 5/8 The Not So Good: Extremely repetitive and shallow gameplay, chaotically confusing, laughable strategic elements, no online components, poor performance and severe pop-in The Good: Straightforward controls and combat, objective-based battlegrounds, player-guided character growth, challenge mode, constant action, same-computer cooperative play
Dynasty Warriors 6, developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI.
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