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The Story of the 3 Kingdoms

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of beat-um ups, strategy games, a mix of the two, or are just looking for some stress relieving slaughtering, then Dynasty Warriors is the game for you. Set in the beautiful era of the three kingsoms, three forces struggle for power. Cao Cao's Wei dynasty, The Sun clan's Wu Dynasty, and Liu Bei's Shu dynasty.
You start off with 9 characters, 3 from each army.If you have a Dynasty Warriors 2 save, you can unlock a further 6 characters automatically.You have a choice of 4 game modes, challenge, where you can do a time attack or endurance round. Vs, pit your battle skills against a friend in 8 different stages. The real meat of the game, Musou or story mode, and Free mode, where you can play on unlocked stages to your hearts content. Selecting a character on Musou mode takes you through 7 different battles. There are 20 unlockable stages altogether, and 3 which are mere fill-in campaigns, which aren't unlockable. When you go through the Musou mode, you start to feel, kind of at one with the character, if you know what I mean. You get to see friends and foe meet their end, and all battles are balanced on a knife point, proving the proverb that one man really can make a difference.
During the battles, the controls are very simple, unlike in Tekken, where you need to unleash combos by learning a difficult combinstion of buttons. You also encounter many enemy generals on the battlefield. A lot of which unlock as playable characters. Defeating an officer makes them drop a powerup for attack or defence or an Item or weapon which you can collect at the end of the battle. Each character has 4 weapons, the 1st and 2nd weapons are sometimes also used by other characters, but the 3rd and 4th are always unique. To aquire the 4th weapon, you have to switch the difficulty to Hard, and accomplish a special task in a certain mission. This is well worth the effort, as 4th weapons come with a fixed set of attributes, which reap powerful rewards. There are altogether 250 weapons in the game, and 25 items, 12 of which are special items, similar to the gaining of ultimate weapons, you accomplish a special task. The other 13 are boost ups for HP, strength and reach etc. When you start off the game, they will only improve you slightly, but as you progress to more difficult levels you can upgreade them. The span of the game is infinite, as you can play each battle, as two different sides, and in some cases three. But, it can get repetitive, as trying to win with 41 playable characters can get slightly boring at times, but on the other hand, every character starts on a different place on the battlefield, and this can quite often change the whole perspective of the battle. Each character is also splendidly diverse, as each have their own attacks.Some battles involve wars against people who have nothing to do with Wei,Wu and shu, but they are still unlockable, and you can also play on the side of these people. It is an extra challenge to find their best weapons, as there isn't always a clear indication of what level it will be on.
As well as all this, there is a database, where you can reveiw your items and weapons, and also look up teh history of all the officers involved in the game, and there's a lot!Strategy is a key part of the game, as messages flash along the bottom of the screen, saying whether an ally needs help, how the battle is going(You can check the progress with a map in the top right hand corner of the screen) and whether anyone has been defeated.
New to the dynasty warriors series, is the two player mode, and not only Vs, but in Musou and Free mode, you can battle on the same side with a split screen. The only disadvantage of this is that the visibility is reduced, as the number of people on the screen has to split between both players.
Overall, Dynasty Warriors three is a fantastic game, with wonderful graphics, gameplay and lifespan, it will take you months to unlock absoloutley everything. I give it a 5 star rating

DW3-SINGLE MOST ADDICTING GAME EvEr ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I realize that I'm writing this review in July of 2004,quite a LONG while after this games release, but that's besides the point. I honestly believe that this game bests DW4. It has 30 total characters (some rock, some aren't so great), tons of levels, and different storylines for each warrior. This game has got to be one of the most addicting games of all time. I got it when it first came out, and I'm STILL pulling it out and beating the crap out of enemies :D !!! To be fair, I'll say
DW4 is a great game, but I felt it lost that Beat-The-Crap-Out-Of-Them feeling that DW3 gave me- there was to much magic and cutscenes, and not enough ACTION! Although the graphics are improved, it just didn't measure up. DW3 also has several other fun playable modes. There is a challenge mode- Time Attack and Endurance (self-explanatory names:) and a versus mode 2 beat the living tar out of your friends in! Why we're on the subject of friends, I might also mention there is cooperative gameplay. This is extremely handy for unlocking 4th weapons, plain fun, and obtaining the MANY, MANY items in the game! This game can be found VERY cheap on the internet, and is DEFINITELY worth it. I enjoy it very much, and can't wait for the PSP version (and the psp itself for that matter :) to come out- I'll b waiting! Happy Gaming!

KC D

Socom 2 : SILVER-STREAK

Hack 'till you crack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A massive hack fest is probably a good description for this game. Although this game is based on ancient Chinese history, its main strength lies in the wonderful gameplay, the atmosphere, and massive character roster. This 3d beat 'em up game will sure to impress you in the beginning as you head into the battle with hundreds of allied soliders and start to slice through hundreds of enemies. The 80s rock guitar riffs will either get you pumpin' or get on your nerves. One great feature of the game is that your character will slowly develop like a traditional RPG; it would take you probably 5-10 hours to max out a single character's stats and get his most powerful weapon. With 40+ characters this game it is going to take a while for you to max out all of the characters. If you liked the gameplay for Phantasy Star Online this game is somewhat familiar in gameplay along PSO's hunter but you could do longer combos and more varity attacks/blocks. Riding a horse is a nice plus. Like PSO you also get to develop your characters and get random generated items/weapons which you could equip to boost your stats/abilities. It if unforunate that this game does not offer on-line play like PSO otherwise it would be great. This game does offer 2 player vs and co-op which really a double edged sword since the 2 player modes has tons of fog and sometimes enemies/structures just appear in front of you out of nowhere due to polygon drops. But the exictiment of kicking butt with your friend (or kicking your friend's butt) will far outweight the flaws of this mode.
Personally I am a fan of the Romance of the 3 Kindom story since the first RTK game. Dynasty Warriors 3 sure brings back some fond memories of the RTK2 days... ahh...
This game is a must buy for RTK fans, and I strongly recommend this game to any fan of 3rd person beat them up fans and PSO fans. If you dislike 3D beat them up games, the chances are that you will hate this game as well.

My Stress Reliever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Words fail to decribe the glee I feel when I rush into a raging battle, slaughtering 15 soldiers with my 60 lbs halberd. This game has provieded me with more entertainment then probably all my other games combined. Story, Gameplay, Graphics,Sound and Replay value are all great.

The Story is great, being that it's form the Chinese Novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This gives great color to the 41 characters, as each has his or her own personality. Extremely impressive was each in game cut screen changes dpending on which character you are, and each say something different(esspicially if you play Guan Yu on Wu Side at Fan Castle). I give that a 5.

Gameplay, simple to learn, hard to master. The fighting engine is in my book one of the best developed, and all those mass multiplayer online games should be taking notes. Knowing how to use certain combos, to defeat enemies not only can make them easier, but boost rewards as well. One downside is mounted combat is very weak, even with added bonuses. For the msot part the game is semi-challenging, however archers and crossbowmen seem too prevelent. This kind of annoys me because they hsave excpetioanl aim and do more damage than the dood with a halberd. 1 archer is more deadly than 20 or 30 guys, kinda gets on your nerves. I give gameplay a 4.

Graphics for the msot part are awesome considering the amount of untis on screen at one time. The charatcers ornate and descriptive down to the calligraphy on Xiahou Dun's Scimitar. Cut Scenes are excelent, however the fog gets a tad annoying, esspcially in 2 player mode. The main bug here is that sometimes if your swarmed in a co-op generals and more importantly archers tend to dissapear and re-appear behind, which makes them extremely annoying. Also the maps are my biggest problem, being that a lot of them can be sparse at time, while some can have great visuals. Also, i felt that they werent as well odne as the maps for DW2. Graphics earn 4-

Sound is well done. English dubbing is terrible, but your given a Japanese choice as well, which I thought was awesome. For the most part sounds are mediocre, good yelling, battle cries etc. Music isnt to bad actually, depsite what people say. It actaully sets the mood, like Chang Ban, when the music is on a high tempo as you flee the on rush of Cao Cao's larger force. Basically a 4.

Replay value is totally awesome. Being that you have 41 different characters, that means 41 different styles and weapons. Each charatcer has a 4th weapon, which is unique and mega uber, and sometimes posses a special element, like death. Theres also a buncha items as well, and finding special items by triggering certain events. The think that I like msot is that its not one of those collect 50 little stars and get a reward. Once you find it, your rewarded quite well. That with finding charcters, events, multiplayer, challange modes you find it there splenty to do. Only downside, is the maps can be repetive after 5 or 6 times. Replay earns a big 5.

The run down, buy it. I hardly ever say that about any game, but this one is so...fun.

Dynasty Warriors....3!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is certainly a game for the playstation 2 Xbox...etc. As like on DW2 you can choose any of the three kingdom generals. The kingdoms names are Wu, Shu, Wei. Other kingdoms are Yellow Turbans, Dong Zhou, Yuan Shao....etc. This game is a verison of the true story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Once you start you may choose a general from Wu, Shu, Wei. Each start out against the Yellow Turbans and soon each other.
For an example, if you play as a Wu general, you will indeed start out against Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turbans. Destroy him and move towards Dong Zhou. After finishing off him, you will fight against Wei and at Yi Ling and Fan Castle against Shu.
When you finish off Dong Zhou and start fighting the other kingdoms, that is when the game gets really cool. You choose a general and smash up the enemy's army and generals. On a scale I would say Lu Bu is the strongest and the ONLY ONE who can max out on everything. Zhang Jiao can only max out in attack. Next would be Xu Zhu the fat dude.
The final weapons are only 4 instead of 1. Each new weapon you get will add another attack. The number three is the true weapon they used and the forth is a better name and extra status to your character. Like said before Lu Bu is the only one who can max out though you need his final weapon with is kinda easy.
The music is about the same in DW2. Also there is a lot more stages with music. What would really aid this game a lot is if you can continue off of Wu Zhang Plains(final stage).
I would seriously buy this game if I were you and you like to enjoy slicing and dicing up soldiers. That is basically it.
There is a lot more characters. You can now play as Sun Ce, Wei Yan, Xu Huang, Zhang He, Xiao Qiao, Di Qiao...etc. Each character holds his own verison of moves. Zhou Yu has the best running attack (truly he does) and Lu Bu is made for clearing crowds. Hope you enjoy the review. This game is really great

Simple, yet SO addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In DW3, you play a character from the story of the three kingdoms in Ancient China and fight your way through hoardes of enemies in various settings to gain control of China. With only four types of attacks (regular, charge, musuo, and arrow), This game would seem to be highly repetitive and boring after about a half hour, but it is quite the opposite. The ability to unlock over 25 characters, collect weapons (each character has 4), and many different items to enhance your abilities, along with the variation of playing as a member of three different kngdoms, this game is very addictive. Get it. NOW!!!

Dynasty Warriors 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ah yes, Dynasty Warriors 3. Now, before I go on I shall tell you that I am a huge fan of these hack and slash games. I had Dynasty Warriors 2 and 4 before I got 3, but what the heck, I don't care.

This game is rather interesting. Particularly seeing how high a K.O count you can get (personal record: 2218). The one problem is it is really hard to get the final weapons for final characters, and say you wanted to act a specific character (I wanted Liu Bei) I had to clear the game twice in Shu Musou mode before I could earn him. It took a while.

I like the horses in this series of games, but here, in Dynasty Warriors 3 the quality of the horses didn't seem as realistic as in the other games. They moved oddly, were too thin and looked rather like foals, not warhorses. The manes of the horses stick up in the movies, like they've been gelled.

All in all (apart from the horses) I adore the game and I recommend buying it if you are into this sort of thing!

My favourite PS2 game so far...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Next gen consoles are a great idea - fantastic graphics, fast CPU's, etc... but rarely do I witness a game that makes it worth buying one of these consoles. Dynasty Warriors 3 is such a game.

A friend and I rented it out last week, and spent eight hours straight playing it. We only stopped because it was 6am and I had to study the next day.

As a one-player experience, this game is fun, with hours and hours of defeating weak opponents in order to charge up your musou for attacks on enemy generals. The game is quite large, and every level is a challenge. Choosing the best character is also difficult - should you go for speed and skill, or brute strength? I usually go for speed, as you need it sometimes to run away from enemy generals.

By far the best part about DW3 is the cooperative mode. It's fun spending half an hour hammering away at the opposition, then having to run the length of the map to help out a friend, only to require his assistance later on. And you can't help but boast when you've killed 400 enemies and he has only defeated 200.

I love this game. If I hadn't already spent my money on an Xbox, I would have seriously considered getting a PS2 and wasting precious hours away playing DW3. Over the past week when I've been studying law, I find myself thinking fondly of Dynasty Warriors 3.

If you cherish your spare time, don't go out and buy this game. But, if you want a fantastic two-player beat-em-up experience which far exceeds old memories of Double Dragon, Final Fight or Ninja Turtles, then buy this game.

Authentic Chinese Wailing Guitars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I know this review is coming way way late, but I'm relatively new to the Dynasty Warriors craze. However, it really has become my favorite toy. The game is an unbelievably potent catharsis, and it's so good that I want to put off getting the next installment (due out later this month) so I can finish up what I have left to do in this game.

It's been said this game is repetitive. Many times, it's been said, this game is repetitive. And some have even suggested one of the game's chief drawbacks is reptition. But come now, one must stop a moment to consider if this is really such a bad thing. Dynasty Warriors 3 delivers a lot of freedom in that it's just the game you pop on when you've had a long day and you feel like knocking the tar out of a few thousand hapless peasant soldiers. The story isn't the most gripping in the gaming world (which I think we can all safely blame on a humorously awkward translation of dialogue), but most of the characters (even the femmie guys) are pretty cool and, as with a fighting game, the fighting styles represented by the characters (in this case 40 of them) leave more than enough room for a player to find the character that best fits him/her.

Back to the question of whether or not reptition is bad... I don't think it is. This isn't a game like Vice City or Final Fantasy X that requires a lot of active involvement. Dynasty Warriors is a mindless combat game -- and there is a niche for things like that!! If you can cope with fighting battle after battle to decide the fate of the three kingdoms, then the game will reward you with as much replay value as you want to take from it... I guarantee you will lose sleep if you make it your goal to complete the campaign mode with all the characters.

Some have also drawn attention to DW3's soundtrack. Per the title of this review, this is also not something I find I have a problem with. I'm actually quite the fan of classical Chinese electric guitar wailing -- to those who are not I would recommend broadening your horizons a bit!! Seriously, though, I prefer the soundtrack of DW3 to that of Dynasty Tactics -- DT's music may be somewhat more authentic, but I don't think the choice made in scoring DW3 takes anything away from the enjoyment of slamming your way through hundreds and hundreds of screaming Yellow Turban soldiers while your ally generals stand there dumbfounded and issue stock-praises of your mad phat killing skeelz.

A kick a$$, beat em up, I'm gon mess u up game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Man, what I don't get is why all game sites out of a total game this a 78%?! What, they ran out of life!? I'n this game, who the hell cares about the story, u jes' play, kick some a$$, end of level, and keep on playin. This game is much better than what sites say. When u have your mushu meter full, and a whole force comes after u, u jes say bring da ruckas! I highly recomend this game to anyone who likes old fasion wars with swords, and for people who wanna kick sum a$$

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