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While Samurai Warriors: State of War marks the debut of Koei's samurai-themed action series on the PlayStation Portable, the game really might as well be a sequel to the publisher's first Dynasty Warriors game, which was released during the PSP launch last year. Granted, that could have been said about the console Samurai Warriors game, as well. Like the Dynasty Warriors games, Samurai Warriors is a hack-and-slash action series that revolves around a number of fabled warriors from Sengoku-era Japan, fancied up to the point of making them crazy caricatures that couldn't possibly resemble reality. And like ... Expand full review
For the sake of argument, let's assume that you aren't intimately familiar with the ins-and-outs of the Warriors games. In the Samurai Warriors series, you pick from one of 19 garishly dressed warriors from ancient feudal Japan and set forth on a quest to conquer Japan's various territories and clans while representing one of the clans. The storylines in the console versions are done with CG cutscenes and some fairly cheesy voice acting with even more cheesily melodramatic writing, but on the PSP, the stories are told exclusively with slides of talking heads and text. While the absence of the slickly produced cutscenes is unfortunate (but understandable), the lack of voice acting isn't a detriment by any stretch of the imagination, though the lack of the high-energy, wailing guitar soundtrack from Dynasty Warriors is a bit of a bummer.
No doubt, if you enjoyed Samurai Warriors on consoles, you'll take at least something positive away from State of War. It's very much the same formula translated reasonably well onto a handheld platform. The trouble is that the formula itself is no better off in handheld form than it was on consoles, and the action becomes utterly stagnant after a short while. Though good third-person action games of this ilk aren't exactly in abundance on the PSP at this time, it's still hard to recommend State of War to all but the most dedicated fans of the series.
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