IM PLAYIN takes a look at Dynasty Warriors Next on the Vita.
"After getting past the intro, the most welcome sight is the amount of options on the menu screen. Not only can you jump into the campaign but we are also treated to a conquest mode that will see you try to take over China as one faction pitted against enemies of your choice. We also see Coalition mode which allows friends to challenge and help compete missions together online. Not only do we have so many different modes to play with but Next also brings back the character creation tool! I have been missing this since 4 and I took the opportunity to dive right in to creating my own bringer of destruction. Created characters can be used in both the conquest and coalition modes allowing plenty of opportunity to try them out and level up. New Armour unlocks can also be acquired by levelling up in any mode or defeating enemy officers in multiplier mode."
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "the handheld was unable to attract certain types of software – western AAA development quickly evaporated, as did Sony’s own support, because there weren’t enough consoles out there for such titles to be profitable. But that doesn’t mean that every publisher failed to find success. Indeed, there are a number of franchises out there that have been able to appeal to the Vita’s niche and which have seen positive sales numbers and critical reception, leading to them becoming mainstays on the handheld.
It’s these series that I intend to examine in more depth this article – what they are, what entries we’ve seen, what success they’ve had, and what it’s meant for the console’s future. I’ll be using known sales figures where possible to back things up, hopefully demonstrating that the Vita has been a solid home for a number of great series despite its otherwise weak commercial performance on the market."
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awesome,I'm hesitant though.This may end up on ps plus...and I prefer to buy the "Masterpieces" with a physical copy
That and it'll take up a 10% of your hard drive at around the 45GB mark but yeah great game and pretty good price for those wanting digital version, got my day one edition for about £28 so I've not exactly lost a lot over 2 months.
Dynasty Warriors Next is one of the few Vita games that I honestly could not recommend to anyone.
This game, like other Dynasty Warriors games before it, is an action-based hand-to-hand combat game where you control 65 different historical figures from ancient China. This game revolves around three in particular – the power struggle between Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Sun Ce (Liew Bay, Tsau Tsau and Tsun Say, phonetically), almost 1900 years ago. I am a big fan of games steeped in history – even if that history is half-fictional like in the Assassin’s Creed franchise. This game had a very low standard by which it had to impress me; this should have been an easy sale. Not only did it fail to impress me, but it failed spectacularly.
I wouldn't go that far, but it is decent. Certainly one of the better games from the Vita's rather poor first year.
Gotta say, though, the upcoming DW8XL will blow it out of the water, assuming it doesn't have any major performance issues.