STACK #130 Aug 2016

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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 Luffy and friends have finally brought their pirate antics to PlayStation 4, replete with arm-and-leg-slinging chaos, witty one-liners, and lots and lots of dead baddies. By Alesha Kolbe

you're playing, to perform a combination attack. Up to four players can be summoned in this way, and the final attack becomes more and more powerful with the more players involved. In addition to the main story, there is also a Dream Log mode, in which characters and items are revealed and unlocked as the player progresses through the mode's many battles. You can then use the characters you've unlocked to revisit the story chapters later, in what is called Free Mode. The game features a decent amount of pre- rendered and animated manga cutscenes, with fully-voiced character conversations to help you

In Pirate Warriors 3, players travel with and gather every member of protagonist Monkey D. Luffy's Straw Hat Pirate crew, and enjoy the beloved tale's epic landmarks and battles. The game's 'beat-em-up' premise is perfectly suited to the ludicrous nature of the One Piece franchise. Assuming the role of Luffy and his friends, players must fight thousands of enemies and rally their own gangs to control points and take out adversaries.

B ased on the successful anime One Piece , which follows Luffy and his pirate crew on a quest to become the Pirate King, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 allows you to relive the original story from back in Fuschia Village, all the way to the nefarious Donquixote Doflamingo's island, Dressrosa.

get a grip on each level's story arc. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 is a welcome return to the Pirate Warriors series. On PS4 [what we played it on] it offers a faithful visual representation of the One Piece franchise. For those who spent hours on end smashing through the first two games, you can now embrace and indulge in Luffy and co.'s lunacy on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PS Vita from August 27.

The third instalment in the franchise retains the gameplay of the previous entries, whilst improving on the smaller things. Luffy can now use any Haki on command, and Straw Hat member Zoro can choose the amount of swords he uses, allowing for more adaptive gameplay. A welcome new addition, however, is the ability to perform a Kizuna Rush. This move summons another character alongside whoever

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