Warriors: Legends of Troy

Warriors: Legend of Troy is a game steeped in mythology, that attempts to be epic, yet ultimately proves a tad too repetitive.

Devotees of "hack'n slash" will enjoy, but do not find anything new to what Tecmo Koei has been doing for a long time.

Warriors: Legends of Troy brings some novelty to the hack'n slash genre successfully distinguishing its gameplay from the previous Koei productions, but it lacks in some important areas like the only one mode available and short longevity.

Not nearly brave or daring enough, though. [Issue#69, p.86]

You could easily rent this game over the weekend and be done with it.

We fall in the middle of the two camps and found Troy a welcome, but ultimately underwhelming attempt to evolve the franchise beyond its thumb-numbing roots. If Koei Canada can further refine the combat, add some multi-player - this game screams for co-op - and polish up the presentation, we're willing to plunge our bloody sword into a sequel.

I can forgive the shonky voice acting, the monotony of the slaughter, the lack of free roaming. I can ignore the dull challenges, I can even forgive the second rate graphics, this is a slasher game and there is plenty of stabbing and hacking to keep you going, but what I can't forgive, in the end, is the dreadful monotony of stun to finishing move and back again.

In a genre overlaoded with turds this one floats to somewhere near the top of the pile. [June 2011, p.98]

It may be surprisingly faithful to the original transcripts, even if it gives very little information regarding the Trojan War, but that is the only positive aspect of this new, "western oriented" button masher from Koei. This recreation of Homers Epic is extremely shallow and repetitive, offering nothing new to the genre.