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hmmmmm i guess im first to review this item

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i own the second dynasty warriors and i am anionxiously awaiting the third...i here there is like 48 playable charactors in this 1 and in some levels you can ride on elephants as well as horses...there are no new levels but each player gets 4 different weapons...(you have to find the 4th 1)...the is also several different 2 player modes like co op and deathmatch.all in all im trusting it will be an awsome game!

True Stress Relief

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Here is a game that will be extremely fun. Dynasty Warriors 2 was a great game that had a lot of fun action. The third installment will build on this will 2-player co-op mode, more characters, moves, and above all else...ELEPHANTS!!!

This should be a fun one to pick up and play by yourself or with a friend.

A third one, eh?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, All I can say right now is "WoW".... I own the second Dynasty Warriors and I absolutely love it! But now that the third one is on it's way to the U.S, I might just have to cancel my date with MGS2. Although this game seems pretty interesting, there could be some flaws, such as the same amount of levels. The second DW was interesting knowing that different characters could go to some different levels, but the last level was always the same......kinda depressing if you ask me. But now that I know that you can ride wicked @$$ elephants, I'm most likely to buy this game, and I hope you all do too:)

The best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Dynasty Warriors 3 is the best in the series.there will be over 20 playale levels and 40 playable characters!!! All the same charactors with many more. Better attack moves and more troops such as elephant troops, so you can trample over people what fun!!over all this is a amazing game!!

***Dynasty Warriors3***

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably the BEST ONE in the series!!!Koei have out done itself again!!! Now, you can play up to 40+ characters(of course some of these characters are only accessible by secret) And, you can now play with two players, with a new type of calvary, the Elephant troops!!! This game will be soooooo awsome!!!! You MUST GET ONE!!! I know I will!!! Hey people!!! Now that I got the game, I must add more!!!! People can be such meanies!!! First of all, they all have the same type of weapons, just that there will be upgrades! And only one costume!!!! where do people find there info! GEEZ Anyways, I have every single characters, there are 41 people!!!!! Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Lui Bei, Wei Yan, Jiang Wei, Zhao Yun, Pang Tong, Huang Zong(can't spell...), Zhuge Liang, Xiao Qiao, Da Qiao, Sun Shang Xiang, Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Gan Ning, Lu Meng, Taishi Ci(ugh can't spell), Huang Gai, Sun Jian, Zhen Ji, Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, Sima Yi, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Xu Zhu, Dian Wei, Diao Chan, Yuan Shao, Dong Zhou, Zhu Rong, Lu Bu, Nu Wa, thats all I can think off now...I know there is more then that, but I can't think right now...Oh well, the ROCKS so there!!!!

killing an entire army by your self

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has to be the best one yet. Elephants,bone crushing attacks,better musou attacks, plus 2p co-op or vs,this is the best game in the kessen dw series

Yeah, I know, I've already reviewed this game but I'm back.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 36 / 45
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Some would claim that Koei's Dynasty Warriors 3 doesn't advance all that far beyond its predecessor. They point to the similar action-oriented gameplay, and graphical presentation that's fairly familiar. I dismiss their arguments with a wave of my hand, pointing my finger firmly toward the sight of Liu Bei striking down the ranks of his foes atop an elephant. Yes, you can now ride elephants in Dynasty Warriors. This is extremely cool.

There are more additions to go along with that, naturally, although the overwhelming coolness of the elephants dwarfs most other improvements -- even the new two-player split-screen mode. There are new characters, including Meng Huo and Princess Zhen (who is looking exceedingly fine, thank you), and much longer combo strings for taking out large groups of enemies. Basic combos now stretch out to as many as six hits, and you can chain the triangle-button charge attacks into regular combos for as many as eight or more. Other special attacks include passive maneuvers (indirect defensive attacks like the back-elbow in Double Dragon), and the "Power Guard" technique, which responds to attacks with a strong riposte. The key to victory is still teamwork, though, relying on support troops to back you up as you charge through the bad guys.

The environments are more varied and interactive in the sequel, to go along with the improved graphics. Textures and effects are brighter, especially when heroes finish off combos with big special moves (Zhen cuts loose an explosive energy halo), and the new attacks mean a wider variety of character animations. The battlefields are presumably bigger, although that kind of scale is difficult to judge, and there's much more variation in terms of scenery and elevation levels. There are more constructions like walls and bridges, trees and other background elements filling space, and more different landscape themes -- the effect is to provide both greater variation in strategies and more interesting backgrounds to look at.

The new split-screen multiplayer mode allows cooperative play in the main Musou mode and the kill-everything-that-stands Free Mode, as well as a variety of one-on-one Vs. modes. The Musou mode has also been spruced up with a variety of character development elements, whereby players can earn new items and weaponry for their characters. Defeat an enemy general who wields a famous sword and you can take it for your own, earning an attack bonus in future battles. Other items improve speed, defense, and the like. Items can also evidently effect your luck in finding and using a mount, be it equine or pachyderm.

New characters take the field as part of an entirely new army, although it will take someone with a bit more familiarity with the Three Kingdoms cast to peg them precisely. Sun Shang Xiang is one of them, though, and like the other characters, she's sporting at least two different costumes and weapons options (in this case, a long sword to go along with her old weapons from Dynasty Warriors 2).

The cast is likely to greatly exceed the original game, and there will be plenty of fighting to set them all to, especially in the multiplayer mode. Dynasty Warriors is still about the kind of fun you can have as a one-man army -- or perhaps a one man, one elephant army. Later this year, we'll be sure to make some time for a little more stomping across the battlefields of third-century China.

Nice chances

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Now that I have the game, I feel that I can review this.

I played it last night, and the first thing I noticed is that battles are different from the first game. They are no longer linear battles where you basically go through all the generals on the map and then kill the enemy commander to win. Now it's much easier to just go straight to the commander and get the kill -- on some of the maps. Like the first one, I played Xiaohou Dun and Zhang Jiao (the enemy commander) was right in front of me. Finished him, and finished the map.

That said, it's actually a more difficult game than the predecessor. The AI is much smarter this time, and the enemy soldiers do attack quite a bit now. The biggest improvment in difficult is that the enemy generals now have moves that are difficult to counter -- you might actually have to use the block button (gasp!) whereas in the previous game it was basically useless. The good thing is that enemy generals no longer recover health when they get knocked down, so you don't have to worry about keeping them standing while smashing away. Also, it's not as easy now to go in by yourself into a group of enemies and just kill them all -- you have to be careful or you get killed very quickly. This is all on normal difficulty.

The maps are much improved, with actual terrains instead of a big, flat map like in the last game. Now you're always going up and down slopes, and the surrouding is generally more detailed that the last one. Also, there are more events in a map as far as I can tell, and there are also more varieties. I've only played on four stages so far, but they have all been fairly different, making a nice change from the last one.

There are a lot more characters now, and finally, the levels you can play with each character in the musou (story) mode actually corresponds to history. Zhao Yun, for example, no longer shows up in the Yellow Turban Rebellion map because he never fought there in history! This is a nice touch that I thought should've been fixed in the last game where people who shouldn't show up did.

I haven't gotten to the elephant yet, so no comment on that.

The items/weapon system seem to work well, although I haven't gathered too many of these so I don't know how important they might be, but I suspect they'll turn up more in the later levels and will show their usefulness. Once you get a new weapon your attack pattern might change. For example, for Zhao Yun the inital weapon is basically the same as the last game, with the same combo. But with newer weapons the combo can change to a 6-hit combo with different moves. So when playing it is important to look for these things, or else fighting might get very difficult since the enemy defense is fairly high once you get on some more advanced levels.

I have yet to see an in-level save point, and I'm not sure if they exist anymore. I have to play more to see (didn't read the manual, you see...)

Basically, a great sequel that added many of the features that were lacking. The music is still not great, but you aren't really playing this game for the music. The cinematic sequences have been greatly improved and now they actually mean something. The voice acting is great (although I use the Japanese voice acting with English subtitles). Overall, a very good game. If you liked the old one, this one is definitely a buy. If you've never played the old one, I suspect that this game will be much less repeatetive than some people found for the old one because of newer levels and weapons/items. Certainly worth a buy.

I know it's not out yet, buuuuut....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought Dynasty Warriors 2 on a whim. I thought 'hey, big soldier I can drive around and kill people with, sounds interesting'. Sure enough, hours and hours later I'm still playing the game. The first weekend when I bought the game, I'd had 6 friends over for the weekend. The playstation was never turned off the whole weekend, people were constantly playing the game. However, the one comment we had was "Too bad it's not multiplayer, that would make it the Ultimate game". I've heard reviews stating that they're disappointed the engine didn't change much. I'm personally excited the engine didn't change much. The same game with new maps, and multiplayer? Whoo hooo. It sounds like they've done a great job at preserving the original game, yet adding in the few features we were drooling over.. multiplayer, and more maps.

Nice. Real nice.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(...) I went to the local Gamestop yesterday where I like to hang out because the guys who work there are awesome. Anyhow, they just recently received DW3. I played the 2nd one a bit and thought it was a little above average. Well my friend, who played DW2 before, and I gave this game a try. He tried a little of the 1P mode. Then we tried the VS mode which was pretty cool. We weren't totally positive if there was a co-op but when I found out there was we figured out how. This game is fantastic. I personally enjoy multiplayer in any video game and this one does it very nicely. There were a few "bugs," but what can one expect from a game that is so huge and running on the limits of the PS2. "Bugs" you say? Well actually I noticed one bug and two annoyances. The one bug was the spawning and de-spawning of characters on screen basically randomly. Enemies would just appear in the middle of the screen randomly. And they would disappear just the same. One annoyance was that the game REALLY slowed down, probably 10 FPS (frames per second), when at one point there was too much going on the screen. The other annoyance was the "fog." I don't mean programmed weather fog, like rain or snow or fog. I mean the system cannot handle all the polygons, so it fills outside a small radius of the player "game fog" - where one cannot see because it's just grey. Many other games experience this, especially console games. If you ever played Turok... bad fog too. Other than all that, this game is so darn awesome. It's fun running around just smashing opponents and watching them fly across the screen. The 2P "Mosou" mode is just great. Get this game now!!!

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