It’s a structure that Koei has religiously adhered to for years now, and aside from a few minor tweaks to gameplay, it remains unchanged here. Players will do this over and over again, with almost no variation except for environment.
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Those sections are full of fodder mecha for your chosen giant robot, and as you obliterate the endlessly respawning waves of enemies, you eventually conquer areas and force a boss to appear at the enemy headquarters, who, upon defeat, signifies the end of the level. Instead, simple combos send the chosen mecha of choice wading into the thick of dozens of enemies, killing them with just a few blows.īasic gameplay sticks true to the Dynasty Warriors formula in that you wander a large map divided into smaller sections. The timing, intricate combos and elaborate strategies of something like Devil May Cry aren’t on show here. The game is a hack and slash in the most basic sense of the genre. That’s not very helpful for the uninitiated, but to those who are, it means one thing running around with a single, heroic character, beating the crap out of thousands of enemy minions.
The shortest possible way to describe this game is… It’s Dynasty Warriors. The authenticity is there, but when Amuro Rey is shouting “This Nu Gundam isn’t for show!” for, literally, the 100th time, it’s definitely wandered in the area of Too Much Of A Good Thing. During combat, all the Gundam characters will shout things out in keeping with their character, but the repetition becomes excessive. Where things become disappointing is in the obvious lack of time for recording dialog. It’s also obvious that Bandai has had some eagle-eyed franchise/continuity people watching over the sound effects as everything from the after-burners to the distinctive sound of the Zeta Gundam’s XBR-M87A2 BOWA beam rifle are faithfully reproduced. On the one hand, Koei has made the wise choice to include an English dub for people who can’t stand reading, while retaining the option to switch to the original Japanese voice track so purists can still enjoy Amuro Rey screaming “Gundam hasshin!” the way he’s supposed to. The audio side takes a similar approach, with a certain amount of Gundam Geek Cred to keep fans happy, that wears out its welcome with constant repetition. Players will be broadly exposed to everything the game has to offer in the opening chapter, with forest, desert, urban and space environments and then be subjected to them again and again for the remainder of the game. Where the game stumbles in the visuals is the bland environments. There’s also a lot of classic anime artwork to represent the various characters using the JRPG old school “talking heads dialog box” approach. DWG3 uses the cel-shading technique to good effect here, likely helped by the simple geometric shapes of the various giant robots.
They work even better if you’re actually a fan of the franchise, with an eye for details of the various giant robots on display. None of this will make any sense to people not familiar with the Gundam franchise, which should be your first major clue as to whether this game is for you or not.Įsoteric-at least for non-Gundam fans-narrative aside, other elements of the presentation work very well.
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The end result is characters from various original Gundam “Universal Century” series now rubbing shoulders with characters from Gundam Wing and Gundam 00. A strange signal that somehow distorts the space/time continuum has sucked in the various Gundam heroes, villains and mecha that came out to investigate its origins for a Japanese take on The Secret War of Marvel fame with Crisis on Infinite Earths from DC. The story of DWG3 is an obvious rationale to get various characters-and perhaps more importantly, mecha-from the numerous Gundam series all collected into one place to duke it out.
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