that may be so. but remember that the difficulty has rise. and that each character has it's own life gauge

quote Master Zhang He

I think they'll allow both characters to be the same person but you have to start with different characters. So, if you have like Zhang He, Cao Cao, and Sima Yi and player 1 starts with Zhang He and Player 2 Cao Cao and they both try to switch to Sima Yi, the first player to do so gets Sima Yi in his original attire and the second gets him in an alternate costume.

master zhang he (feel like im talkin to a general here) actually has a really good point like seriously though on 2 p mode they would have to raise the difficulty if it turned out to be like m.z.h. suggested for me to get interested in that or it would turn out like (on easy and normal) usual 1 slash n u kill like everything in the vicinity

It turns out BrokenKnights, sleva10, and Master Zhang He were on the right track. Listen to these koeiwarrior Musou Orochi owners commentaries on the subject:

Nouhime: 2 player mode is like the regular... DW / SW 2 player, BUT the 2nd player has the same characters as the 1st player. But with the alt costumes or whatever the 1st player has. It'd be really neat to share a 3 person team, but hm yes.

Divine Justice: Share the same three people. You can switch between them at any time regardless of what your friend does. I also think they have separate life bars and all of that, but I haven't played Multiplayer yet, so I wouldn't know.

Nouhime: what DJ said. I've actually tried 2 player and it's pretty eh yea. 1st and 2nd players are totally independent from each other. They have their own life bars, their own musou blah blha blha.

The only catch is that if player 1 chooses (for example) Ranmaru, Sakon, and Sanada as their team player 2 will have the identical team. So, in other words, if player 1 and 2 decide to play as Ranmaru, there will be two different Ranmarus in two different areas doing two different things unless the other player is creepy enough to mimic you.

yea, but the thing i'm not quite fond of is the alt costumes....the 2nd player will get the "other" costume the 1st player doesn't have.. so uh yes. It would be more unique if the 2nd player was able to choose their own team though.

That makes absolutely no sense. Shame on you KOEI. If both people are seperate why can't they just have differnt characters?? This is the first disappointing news ive heard about this game.

Thats my second disappointment with this game one more and I might not buy this game. I would have preferred to share characters or at least let 2p make his own team. I'm also disappointed with the fact that your other 2 team mates are not following you around, they just teleport when you switch them. I wonder if a petition could work.

well this suks looks like 2p gonna suk worse than ever T.T koei why must u toy with our minds so....lol

I'm holding out hope that for some reason that isn't the full jist of it, because it would seem Koei has made their first mistake in the process of the game.

I don't think the news is that bad...

If anything... it'll create more interaction between 1P and 2P:

1P: I got Zhang He!
2P: *stares* ...um, I want Yoshimoto Imagawa.
1P: Okay, and Pang De for the third.
2P: What? No! Get Gan Ning. We need speed and stealth to stop the flood attack I think happens on this stage.
1P: Gan Ning is like level 3 dude! Pang De is level 99! Maxed-out!
2P: Okay, compromise: level 30 Yue Ying or level 25 Nagamasa Azai?
1P: No, how about Ranmaru? It'll be "Team BEAUTIFUL!"
2P: I'm gonna kill you.

Do you see the opportunity for strategy? Instead of imbalancing the game with 1P picking 3 speedy characters and 2P picking a bunch of heavy-hitters, 1P and 2P have to think what is best for them to both use. Force players to use other characters instead of playing favorites too much.

Besides, 1P and 2P are still interlinked. 2P dies its gameover for both still.

Perhaps 1P and 2P can pretend it is one squad of three and force a "no doppleganger" rule...

No, now theres no strategy involved at all. Now 1P can takre Ma Chao, Lu Bu, and Musashi and 2P will get those three as well. In sharing the character at least you'd have to ration HP between the characters and in makin two seperate teams you would have to split the good characters. But now you can have two Lu Bu's roaming the map just annhilating everyone. I know if something is way too difficult me and my buddy are both gonna find ourselves as Ma Chao on Shadow Horse or Moon Child. I know that's really cheap but KOEI is letting us do it by implementing this lame ass 2P system.

I agree with you it is cheap and most likely this game won't even be a challange once you are maxed out.

I also read somewhere that they really dumbed down the AI.
And we were expecting something good from this crossover, KOEI can't get anything right.

Okay so is their a two player mode on all the vids I have seen on this game I haven't came across a two player battle yet.

;; I don't think it matters since I'm pratically the only one that plays the game in my place. Though, if I did have to compramise with my friend on which characters we would play I think I'd be royally screwed considering that she can beat me up. =x And~, I'm dead set on which teams I want. ^^;

I'll probably play this game with my brother, and I've promised him that he will be alowed 2 control all his favorites whenecer he wants 2... that means teams that include: Yukimura Sanada, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Pang Tong, Cao Cao and Hanzou Hattori. When i play with him its mostly 4 fun. And besides I do also like Pang Tong and Yukimura.
He hates Yoshimoto so i'm gonna be him just 2 bug his ass off^_^