Its been awhile since the last review but what can I tell you, college is a bitch. Now then, the review.....

Samurai Western

Samurai Western is brought to us by the same two companies, Acquire and Spike, that gave us the first two Way of the Samurai games along with there new third party company to help bring it to the States. This game is somewhat of a really distant cousin from its Way of the Samurai relatives, in the sense that its made by the same two companies, PS2 exclusive, the games share some certain items and characters althought used in a different sense, but the game is still able to remain its own.

Story
A samurai named Gojiro comes to the Wild West in the 1800s to kill his brother, Rando who left the honorable path of the samurai and started to work for a man named Goldberg as a hired gun. Goldberg is in the process of building a utopia in the American desert and kidnaps a town of people to work as slave labor. It really isnt that deep of a plot, infact its vagely similar to just about any kind of anime plot but not as drawn out.

Gameplay
Sadley there is no free roaming in this game, its composed of set levels that can be played over and over again for attemping a higher score. Gameplay is similar to Dynasty Warriors, badguys are everywhere and you must kill them all until the game thinks its time to stop. Thats one of the weird things about this game is that is that you get part of your final score based off how many kills and how long to beat the level but for some reason the level stops after you killed a certain amount of enimes but there is no exact number of people of kill. Anyways, as you can guess by the title that you are armed with a sword while the evil cowboys are armed with guns ranging from revolvers, shotguns, rifles, and sub machine guns? Also fat old women throw TNT and bombs at you, very annoying. Now dont think that your going to get shot all to hell every single time because Gojiro poses the power of "shoot dodge", with just a tap of the R1 or circle button you can spin out of the path of bullet, you will do this a lot in later levels as you hack and slash your way though hordes of enimes. Swords, as you progress through the game you will unlock more swords from low stance, high stance, sheathed, one handed, to double swords. Depending on the stance of you sword your holding at the time will determine the special ability you can use when you fill up the "MP" bar when you kill enough enimes. Boss Battles, can be annoying espically when you have to fight them and constint spawning enimes along with them shooting you from every direction, which knocks you on the ground making you helpless as a turtle with no chance to get up and before you know it your dead.

I wish I could say more but there really is much more to say, so heres a video to give you people a clue of what the games like.

Overall Opinion
Samurai Western did have some more pontintial than what was final product. The plot could have been more developed. Game could have been longer. And the thing about part of the final score about how much time you took and number of kills should have been fixed. If you like anime then maybe you'll get a small kick out of it or if you in the mood for a mindless hack and slash game but want something different the Dynasty Warriors then you may like it to, just dont expect to much. Overall I would give Samurai Western a 2 out of 5.

Well thats it for now, if you have any comments or suggestions just say so below and I'll see what I can do. And remember "Try it, before you buy it".