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Fu Xi, Taigong Wang, Taira no Kiyomori, Nu Wa, and the SW2:XL Cast added!


FU XI


My armor matches my sword now.

NU WA


Nu Wa's back and she's pissed that her hand maiden is serving Orochi

Whining about the new movesets SXH, just play with the old ones! All of them!

Now if they'd only add Ma Dai, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, Deng Ai, Chen Wu, Guo Huai, Wang Ping, Xu Sheng, and Nobuyuki Sanada to this.

quote SadXuHuang

We could call it WO2 since it seems to have a new storyline, but the official title is...

English translation:
"Warriors Orochi: Rebirth of the Demon Lord"

Even though it is Koei shamelessly milking the franchise (WO was supposed to be a PS2 farewell!), I'm still excited. Partly because with no PS3, I can't enjoy the half-made DW6. SW2:XL just became almost obsolete with their new cast members joining WO2.

The biggest draw of WO:RotDL--

VERSUS mode!

Look at the screen below Nu Wa! Looks like that mode is DW/SW returning to its PS1 roots of a side-view fighting game! Now like Marvel vs. Capcom or Tekken Tag with allies you can swap in.

Other new stuff: (info stolen from KW)

• New Fighting System:
  • Assistant Attack - ally pops in for a cheap smack
    
    
  • Combination Attack - All 3 characters you choose appear at the same time and release an ultimate musou attack.

• New Modes:
  • Versus Mode
    
    
  • Survival Mode
    
    
  • Dramatic Mode

• New stages, and the new characters (some may be still hidden!)

Ahhh, an awesome thread. Great scans of the new characters. I really love Nu Wa's new look and Taigong wang sounds like he could be an interesting character with an interesting story though I'm not really very fond of his look in that picture.

As of today, there are 88 characters. This is what nearly 90 characters look like:

Shu

Zhao Yun
Guan Yu
Zhang Fei
Zhuge Liang
Liu Bei
Ma Chao
Huang Zhong
Jiang Wei
Wei Yan
Pang Tong
Yue Ying
Guan Ping
Xing Cai

Ahh awesome, a full list of all the characters.
One thing i am curious about is why characters such as Xing Cai were cut from DW6 but kept in this game, unless it is somehow related to DW 6's move to ps3.
Glad to see all my favourties from the last game still in there.
Though i wonder how many of those will be starting characters and how many will have to be unlocked.

I hope in this game characters are a challenge to unlock. Not just finishing a level, finishing it in style, like how you unlocked Musahi Miyamoto on the first game. It may have been annoying when one of the guys died but hey it made the game last longer.

i think there should be a mix, like in WO1, were some were unlocked simply by completing missions and others were unlocked by completing certain objectives in the extra levels. Hopefully they will use a similar system but maybe with a few more characters being unlocked with harder challenges. Though i am hoping there will in fact be a few more starting characters than in the first game, just so there is a little more choice in the early stages.

For the second time, this game has NOTHING to do with DW6. It is just all the PS2 characters in one game.

That would be nice. I'm really glad they are making new characters for this game. What sort of challenges would you like to see people being unlocked by?

Opening Lu Bu and Tadekatsu in the last game was great, more characters being opened as a process through more than one level would be good IMO, that'll make it longer and harder. Perhaps all the levels would be from one musou though so that a character will join a specific faction.

Also, since the characters are already in factions, won't they want to fight with you? Unless they want to defect, there wouldn't be any "winning over a characters heart" type missions as they're already all happy where they start...so I'm not quite sure how characters would be unlocked when you already start with them as such...if you know what I mean...

Yes, since the members of each faction was already decided on where are they going to be, will all the characters be intially unlocked from the start? Or maybe some of the characters will be captured again, and then you have to rescue them, thus unlocking them afterwards?

the hand maiden of nu wa is da ji???
But i remember is another person....or not?

quote BrokenKnights

For the second time, this game has NOTHING to do with DW6. It is just all the PS2 characters in one game.

quote Balambgirl

The story worked well as the 'rescue' of the characters added some more interesting stipulations to the missions, like the rescue of lady No in the Wu story in WO, i thought the challenges like defeating all the messengers made it more interesting.

Time to add another character to the list!

New Character: Yoshitsune Minamoto




It is like he has the Cao Ren version of a Gundam Beam saber...



credit BlackKite of KW for the info:
Introducing the Gold Saint, Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Details on Versus & Survival Modes. Apparently, Survival = Versus until you are KOed.

Also, details on useable items that can be used after getting by pressing L3. Why am I reminded of Naruto: Narutimate Hero? (Ultimate Ninja in US)



This message was edited by SadXuHuang on Feb 27 2008.

I loved unlocking Keiji! Musahi was a different story though.