Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends

The reality is that Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends is a perfectly serviceable game, of adequate playability and decent variety, provided you've never played this game -- in any of its myriad variations -- before. But assuming you have dipped your feet in the pool of endlessly-recycled Dynasty Warriors backwash, it's almost absurd at this point to have to pay 30 bucks for either the PS2 or Xbox 360 flavor of what is barely more than preconceived, half-assed, tacked-on downloadable content.