
While the normal soldiers can be easily dispatched with a few hits, the officers can take a beating and dish it back out as well. The officers all act like mini boss battles. Like with all Warriors games, the whole idea is to travel around the battlefield, taking out thousands of soldiers while helping your team advance by taking out the officers that lead their own armies. Talking with different characters can also open up more side missions for you to play as well. If two characters that have formed a bond fight together, their team attacks become more efficient.

Talking to characters forms bonds between them which can be used on the battlefield. This space is important because you'll want to talk to as many characters as you can. This will also be your base of operations where you can talk with your teammates, buy, upgrade and combine new weapons at the blacksmith and prepare for the next battle. From here you will be given various missions to complete to advance through the game. The game is broken up into chapters, seven in all with chapter four being the attack on Hydra, but since you went back in time, you start at chapter one. Since they have been sent back in time, the heroes can now try to figure out how to stop Hydra. That is until the The Moon Princess, Kaguya sends them back in time. Unfortunately for them, Hydra appears to be too powerful and it looks like the heroes are headed for certain death. Warriors Orochi 3 starts several years after the events of Orochi 2 and finds the main heroes of the game trying to stop a gigantic monster knows as "Hydra" from annihilating everyone. If you played Warriors Orochi 3 on last gen consoles, you will probably know what you are getting into as this "Ultimate" version is more like a Game of the Year edition with tons of additional content that wasn't in the original release.

Sure, the game does suffer from some technical problems, but the good thing is that the gameplay, for the most part, holds up really well and is incredibly addicting. The series at that point will probably be like Monopoly and won't stop until every game franchise under the sun gets it's own "Warriors" type game, and you know what? I will be there to play all of them because these games are a ton of fun and Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate on Xbox One is no different. Many years from now, I'm sure someone on this site will be reviewing Dynasty Warriors 24 or Warriors Orochi 17.

The "Warriors" series of games is probably going to be a series that will be around forever.
