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The next Dynasty game from KOEI is called Dyansty Warriors 4:Empires and is based more on strategy than the other hack and slash games in the series. You command an army and you have to lead them to the conquest of China. The game focuses on some smaller kindgoms such as the Yuan family and the Nanman as well as wu wei and shu. Obviously you have a larger force depending on your kingdom and the difficulty varies accordingly. You decide which of the 24 regions in China you wish to invade, or which kingdoms you want to be your allies in order to defeat for example Cao Cao. There are also new playable warriors and more officer abilities- from powerful new Charge attacks to taunting “Challenges.”
Redesigned based on fan requests, the new Character Edit mode triples the number of character models and voices players can use to create their own warrior, plus player-created warriors can use any weapon in the game.
The game’s new VS Mode combines the furious multiplayer action of Dynasty Warriors 4’s VS and Challenge Modes into one. In VS Mode, players can now send attacking soldiers to the opposing player’s screen by defeating enemies with a Musou attack. Gamers can pre-order the game now at ebgames.com, gamestop.com, amazon.com, and mediaplay.com. The game is due in September 2004.
Redesigned based on fan requests, the new Character Edit mode triples the number of character models and voices players can use to create their own warrior, plus player-created warriors can use any weapon in the game.
The game’s new VS Mode combines the furious multiplayer action of Dynasty Warriors 4’s VS and Challenge Modes into one. In VS Mode, players can now send attacking soldiers to the opposing player’s screen by defeating enemies with a Musou attack. Gamers can pre-order the game now at ebgames.com, gamestop.com, amazon.com, and mediaplay.com. The game is due in September 2004.
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Changed my mind about using Guan Yu. Use your best Wei character. They should be maxed or you will have trouble. Set it to Hard difficulty. There are a few things you should know before attempting this:
Every soldier is vital. Remember, privates as just as useful as Lu Bu, and a lot easier to kill.
Don't kill the gate captains. Try and get the most enemies out of each gate, and then move on. If the gate captains are left alive then more enemies will come on to the battlefield, and also your allied generals will waste hours trying to kill these guys.
Don't kill officers unless absolutely necessary. These will also hold up your officers, especially seems as a lot of them need to killed to access Fan Shui Gate.
Stay alive. Don't get yourself killed trying to get too many KOs. You only need 1000KOs, and there are plenty enough around to give you that lump sum.
You can't switch off Bodyguards. They will kill enemies, so kill them first. As soon as you get into a rabble, they'll be killed quickly.
Save often. This is a great way to restore health and musou. Also, there is a chance you will get killed, and you don't want to get caught cold by Lu Bu.
With this in mind, start the level. Go South down the path and kill as many enemies as possible from the gate and the battlefield. AVOID killing Li Meng, as he will hold up Cao Cao for at least 10 mins. Don't worry if you only have about 30 KOs at this point, as you can easily make it up later.
Carry on down the path killing anyone you see until you get to Xu Rong's area. Get the max out of the gate, and try to shoot the archers on the wall from afar, as they will really annoy you. Don't hesitate to find health if you go below a third of its max. Unfortunately, you have to kill Xu Rong to progress. However, luck turns your way as Yuan Shao tells Cao Cao to wait after Xu Rong is defeated. You should have about 150 KOs at least. If not, don't panic. SAVE. There is a memory card round the back of this gate.
After this, instead of cutting down to Hu Lao Gate and Lu Bu, head north to Fan Shui gate. Li Jue is the officer here, but make sure you kill his officers Guo Si and Jia Xu and all of his men before traversing Fan Shui. Again get the max of the gate. Try to get as many KOs as you can between Fan Shui and the end of the "Wei path". Try to get to 350-400 KOs at least by the time you jump over Fan Shui.
DO NOT kill Hua Xiong, as this will open Fan Shui, and the Wei forces will attack Hu Lao Gate. Head slightly north of him to the gate under Yuan Shao's starting position. Here you can kill 80% of Hua Xiong's extensive force as well as his officer Hu Zhen. This was the place that boosted my KOs count a lot, up to about 650. Again, if you have lost any health and a meat bun is on offer, take it, as you never know whether you're going to need it.
Now head East to Wang Fang's position. Here, you can wipe out another 10% of Hua Xiong's force as well as Wang Fang's. Again, get the most out of the gate, but you can kill the gate captain if you wish. This should get you up to at least 750 KOs, and there is still at least 500 KOs left in the level! Now head West to Zhou Cen's position. There is a gate part of the way over which gives a lot of KOs. If the amount of men runs out, don't kill the gate captain, cause more will appear on your way back. Go up and massacre Zhou Cen's troop, and go back down to the afore-mentioned gate. This is where I obtained my 1000th KO, but it doesn't even matter if you only have about 750-800. Any less than 600 and you should consider retrying. By now, a message should have appeared announcing an enemy ambush. You should take care of this, cause Yuan Shao can be killed by this meagre force.
Canter down to Fan Shui Gate and kill Hua Xiong if he's still alive, he was for me. Go down to Zhang Liao's passage where you can gain another 100 or so KOs. Kill Zhang Liao and carry on past Lu Bu to Hu Lao Gate. If you STILL don't have 1000, you can get 50 outside Hu Lao Gate and 100-200 more inside. Kill the gate captains and Diao Chan if you can. Dong Zhuo shouldn't have many troops left now, so leave Hu Lao Gate. Use the save point next to the gate as Lu Bu could well kill you.
I'm not sure if you need to kill Lu Bu to unlock him, but I did, considering it seemed it would be a bit pointless to waste an hour getting 1000 KOs if I didn't get the reward. Here is my strategy to defeat him:
1.Use arrows to defeat any of his remaining troops near him.
2.Don't let him get a hit in.
3.If you see him using a Musou, hold L1 to block immediately.
4.It will take a long time, as Lu Bu has about 200 healing items in hard, unless you want to keep using 3-hit combos, which increases the risk of him hitting you.
Go back to kill Dong Zhuo.
When you get 1000KOs, all of your remaining allied friends' morale will increase to max.
Changed my mind about using Guan Yu. Use your best Wei character. They should be maxed or you will have trouble. Set it to Hard difficulty. There are a few things you should know before attempting this:
Every soldier is vital. Remember, privates as just as useful as Lu Bu, and a lot easier to kill.
Don't kill the gate captains. Try and get the most enemies out of each gate, and then move on. If the gate captains are left alive then more enemies will come on to the battlefield, and also your allied generals will waste hours trying to kill these guys.
Don't kill officers unless absolutely necessary. These will also hold up your officers, especially seems as a lot of them need to killed to access Fan Shui Gate.
Stay alive. Don't get yourself killed trying to get too many KOs. You only need 1000KOs, and there are plenty enough around to give you that lump sum.
You can't switch off Bodyguards. They will kill enemies, so kill them first. As soon as you get into a rabble, they'll be killed quickly.
Save often. This is a great way to restore health and musou. Also, there is a chance you will get killed, and you don't want to get caught cold by Lu Bu.
With this in mind, start the level. Go South down the path and kill as many enemies as possible from the gate and the battlefield. AVOID killing Li Meng, as he will hold up Cao Cao for at least 10 mins. Don't worry if you only have about 30 KOs at this point, as you can easily make it up later.
Carry on down the path killing anyone you see until you get to Xu Rong's area. Get the max out of the gate, and try to shoot the archers on the wall from afar, as they will really annoy you. Don't hesitate to find health if you go below a third of its max. Unfortunately, you have to kill Xu Rong to progress. However, luck turns your way as Yuan Shao tells Cao Cao to wait after Xu Rong is defeated. You should have about 150 KOs at least. If not, don't panic. SAVE. There is a memory card round the back of this gate.
After this, instead of cutting down to Hu Lao Gate and Lu Bu, head north to Fan Shui gate. Li Jue is the officer here, but make sure you kill his officers Guo Si and Jia Xu and all of his men before traversing Fan Shui. Again get the max of the gate. Try to get as many KOs as you can between Fan Shui and the end of the "Wei path". Try to get to 350-400 KOs at least by the time you jump over Fan Shui.
DO NOT kill Hua Xiong, as this will open Fan Shui, and the Wei forces will attack Hu Lao Gate. Head slightly north of him to the gate under Yuan Shao's starting position. Here you can kill 80% of Hua Xiong's extensive force as well as his officer Hu Zhen. This was the place that boosted my KOs count a lot, up to about 650. Again, if you have lost any health and a meat bun is on offer, take it, as you never know whether you're going to need it.
Now head East to Wang Fang's position. Here, you can wipe out another 10% of Hua Xiong's force as well as Wang Fang's. Again, get the most out of the gate, but you can kill the gate captain if you wish. This should get you up to at least 750 KOs, and there is still at least 500 KOs left in the level! Now head West to Zhou Cen's position. There is a gate part of the way over which gives a lot of KOs. If the amount of men runs out, don't kill the gate captain, cause more will appear on your way back. Go up and massacre Zhou Cen's troop, and go back down to the afore-mentioned gate. This is where I obtained my 1000th KO, but it doesn't even matter if you only have about 750-800. Any less than 600 and you should consider retrying. By now, a message should have appeared announcing an enemy ambush. You should take care of this, cause Yuan Shao can be killed by this meagre force.
Canter down to Fan Shui Gate and kill Hua Xiong if he's still alive, he was for me. Go down to Zhang Liao's passage where you can gain another 100 or so KOs. Kill Zhang Liao and carry on past Lu Bu to Hu Lao Gate. If you STILL don't have 1000, you can get 50 outside Hu Lao Gate and 100-200 more inside. Kill the gate captains and Diao Chan if you can. Dong Zhuo shouldn't have many troops left now, so leave Hu Lao Gate. Use the save point next to the gate as Lu Bu could well kill you.
I'm not sure if you need to kill Lu Bu to unlock him, but I did, considering it seemed it would be a bit pointless to waste an hour getting 1000 KOs if I didn't get the reward. Here is my strategy to defeat him:
1.Use arrows to defeat any of his remaining troops near him.
2.Don't let him get a hit in.
3.If you see him using a Musou, hold L1 to block immediately.
4.It will take a long time, as Lu Bu has about 200 healing items in hard, unless you want to keep using 3-hit combos, which increases the risk of him hitting you.
Go back to kill Dong Zhuo.
When you get 1000KOs, all of your remaining allied friends' morale will increase to max.
If you could give me a strategy i would be grateful :^)
Yeaaahhh! I got Lu Bu again on DW2 on Hard! It took me like an hour, as you have to kill basically every1 in the level. I ended up with over 1250KOs. If you want a strategy for getting Lu Bu or details on my exploits, or indeed any DW question, don't hesitate to ask.
Skyline, I have a solution. There is an alternative code that works on 1 version of the game and 1 code that works on the other version.
You have to go to the mode select menu that I mentioned before and instead of inputting the code I gave you before:
Square,R1,Square,R2,Square,R2,Square,R1.
Try using this code instead:
Square, square, L1, L2, R1, R2, square, square.
This is the only code that works on my game as well.
You have to go to the mode select menu that I mentioned before and instead of inputting the code I gave you before:
Square,R1,Square,R2,Square,R2,Square,R1.
Try using this code instead:
Square, square, L1, L2, R1, R2, square, square.
This is the only code that works on my game as well.
ill try it. I might have got it wrong, but I'm sure it works.
Check back on the thread about 8 for more info.
Check back on the thread about 8 for more info.
Everytime i try it, it never works.
i'll check today, but im fairly sure its at the screen where you choose modes
ie. musou mode, free mode, options.
will verify when i go on PS2.
ie. musou mode, free mode, options.
will verify when i go on PS2.
See ya, cheers.
Question for tomorrow.
Where do i type these codes in?
Specifically, please give me instructions. Dont say on the main menu either.
Question for tomorrow.
Where do i type these codes in?
Specifically, please give me instructions. Dont say on the main menu either.
i can quickly give you da code:
Square, R1, Square, R2, Square, R2, Square, R1 -Unlock All Characters
Hope I helped.
Use Guan Yu on Hu Lao Gate and don't kill any enemy officers, as this will unleash the allied forces. Make sure he is maxed and just hang around Hu Lao Gate until about 500KOs, and then mop up around other parts of the level. Don't kill gate captains either. When you have killed every1 to the north, go back to Hu lAo Gate until u have 1000KOs.
See Ya.
Square, R1, Square, R2, Square, R2, Square, R1 -Unlock All Characters
Hope I helped.
Use Guan Yu on Hu Lao Gate and don't kill any enemy officers, as this will unleash the allied forces. Make sure he is maxed and just hang around Hu Lao Gate until about 500KOs, and then mop up around other parts of the level. Don't kill gate captains either. When you have killed every1 to the north, go back to Hu lAo Gate until u have 1000KOs.
See Ya.
why? What time will you be on then?
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