It's difficult to choose between this and 5 for the best DW game, but very easy for me choose when it comes to personal fave.
This one strikes i think the best balance in terms of difficulty, gameplay, visual style out of all the DW games.
DW2 gave us the basic building blocks, but was insanely difficult due to the limtations on your character, no weapons, no items, and your movelist was virtually identical to the foes you faced.
DW3 adds layers onto this, but doesn't crank the difficulty down too much the way that future installments do. This is still a challenging game, but the balance is just right, enemies are capable of all the things you are, but they don't have the extra moves, the fancier weapons or the item loadouts.
All the characters are given their own unique movesets, final weapons, voice overs, and there's 41 characters to play as, and 13 of these are new ones, although they may as well all be new characters considering how basic the 2nd games moveslists were.
OST is one of the best, and is a perfect match for the arcadey action, and really does a great job of matching events in game, and encouraging you on, or demoralising you in the face of a challenge.
The only weaknesses i see, are the voice over, the storytelling, and debateably the fog. Personally, i write off the fog, as it's most likely a limitation of the hardware. As for the story and voice over, it's pretty bad, but it's extremely funny, it's kind of so bad that it almost comes all the way down to being amazing again.
This is the template i hope future warriors titles try for, this gameplay style, take away some of the overt-anime inspirations, ground the designs a little, power up the enemies to be more than filler.
This one strikes i think the best balance in terms of difficulty, gameplay, visual style out of all the DW games.
DW2 gave us the basic building blocks, but was insanely difficult due to the limtations on your character, no weapons, no items, and your movelist was virtually identical to the foes you faced.
DW3 adds layers onto this, but doesn't crank the difficulty down too much the way that future installments do. This is still a challenging game, but the balance is just right, enemies are capable of all the things you are, but they don't have the extra moves, the fancier weapons or the item loadouts.
All the characters are given their own unique movesets, final weapons, voice overs, and there's 41 characters to play as, and 13 of these are new ones, although they may as well all be new characters considering how basic the 2nd games moveslists were.
OST is one of the best, and is a perfect match for the arcadey action, and really does a great job of matching events in game, and encouraging you on, or demoralising you in the face of a challenge.
The only weaknesses i see, are the voice over, the storytelling, and debateably the fog. Personally, i write off the fog, as it's most likely a limitation of the hardware. As for the story and voice over, it's pretty bad, but it's extremely funny, it's kind of so bad that it almost comes all the way down to being amazing again.
This is the template i hope future warriors titles try for, this gameplay style, take away some of the overt-anime inspirations, ground the designs a little, power up the enemies to be more than filler.