Dynasty Warriors 3

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Another Hit!

KOEI follows up the super addictive Dynasty Warriors 2 with the aptly named Dynasty Warriors 3. Dynasty Warriors 3 boasts enhanced graphics, heightened artificial intelligence, more characters, greater weapon choices and more stages. This game is more addictive than ever before and is definitely worth your time.

Again, you choose a legendary warrior of China's Three Kingdoms period. The cast is expanded to include a number of other characters. There are also a number of other stages, which just increase the variety of the game. The same basic formula from Dynasty Warriors 2 is present. You basically run around an ancient Chinese battleground and kill enemy soldiers and officers. You cant toy with perfection too much can you? The old stages have been revamped and are, in some cases, radically different then their predecessors.

The graphics are a stepup in Dynasty Warriors 3. While Dynasty Warriors 2 had very good graphics, it had a number of glitches that could be really annoying, such as weaponry going through solid stone when you move. KOEI cut down on these glitches in a major fashion, though truth be told, there are still some present.

This is a fantastic game and is highly addictive. Even the music is awesome, a heavy metal mix that somehow goes so well with brutally killing hundreds of Chinese warriors. Bulk up your favorite warrior and wipe out as many enemies as you can... just wait and see what happens!

Simple, yet SO addictive

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!!!

Hack And Slash Galore!

If you want a game where your character can become the mightiest bieng ever, then this game is for you. Unlike many RPG settings, this game is slightly different. The main theme is to "soup" up your characters and make sure that the team they are fighting on do not get defeated.

This game is one of the best. There is much true history involved in the playing of this game. You encounter all of the main families of the Han Dynasty. You play with Wie, Shu, Wu and Lu Bu's forces.

Each and every player has their own special weapon, which can be upgraded into a powerful super weapon. Playing with these different characters is fun and challenging. You will not be disapointed with this awesome game, it gives for hours (and days) of fun.

The best.

I bought this game about.. Three years ago, I believe. I still play it often. I hardly ever, ever buy games. I rent them, beat them, then never sink anymore money in them. This time around I rented it twice, then bought it. It's such an awesome game.
If you buy Dynasty Warriors 4, instead of getting Dynasty Warriors 4 XL, get Dynasty Warriors 3.
DW3 serves up mass amounts of old karate-flick, bloodless and mindless slaughter action with tons of characters. Each character has his own weapon, his own fighting style, speed, combos, musou, and goes through a slightly different set of levels. Almost all the legendary generals are in the game; Guan Yu, Lu Bu, Cao Cao, and I believe, thirty more officers?
The levels vary in size, offer different obstacles, and none of them resemble the last. Offering a change of scenery instead of the boring same old hack and slash over and over again ( remember Dark Cloud? Hopefully not ). Most levels allow for only one way to win, kill the enemy's general. Others make things more complicated, i.e, pursuing fleeing enemy generals, holding back uprisings, raiding fortresses, kicking bandits out of small villages, you know, the usual.
DY3 offers something lacking in the earlier versions. The dreaded elephants. If you haven't played this game, but wonder what the whole hype is about people complaining about them, or praising them, well.. They suck ( the elephants that is). Sure it's fun to get on an elephant and tear down walls and stomp enemies to death. To get an elephant though.. That's difficult.

Now onto the ratings...

Graphics: 4.5/5
The graphics are all in 3D, the characters all very detailed and portrayed nicely even in the heat of battle, the only small downfall would have to be with the landscapes. It appears you could move onto porches and under the roofs, but no luck. There's walkways that appear to go over water and ravines, but they cannot be used. All in all, you can get around anywhere on foot, but sometimes it gets frustrating with all the lying graphics.

Game Play: 5/5
Come on, this game was perfected for battles. So of course it has awesome game play. There's tons of chain combos you can link together, officers you can challenge, four (five with DW 3 XL) weapons to find and use, all carrying with them new moves to enable longer and more deadly combos, and even fire arrows.
Can't forget to mention all the alternatives to walking on foot, which can get boring in such a massive battlefield. There's many types of horses, some slow and some fast that you can steal from officers and soldiers. Some you unlock by gaining rare saddles, all of which are much faster than the standard common horses you can find. Then there's the elephants, slow moving and amazingly annoying for your enemies.
The game offers different modes; musou, which is like a sort of adventure centered around your one character, free, which allows you to play.. well.. freely in any level that you've unlocked. Co-op mode allows you to play in free mode, or musou with a friend in split screen, which is great fun. There's also mini games for you and your friend to challenge each other with, each of the players gets a team in most of these challenges. There's also one-on-one mode for you and your friend.

Characters: 5/5
I love just about every character. Whatever approach it is that you take to a fighting game, DW3 has the perfect fighter for you. For the hack and slash brute, there's Lu Bu and Xiahou Dun, for the quick and agile there's Zhang He and Nu Wa, for the magic user there's Pang Tong and Sima Yi. I can't forget to mention to anyone and everyone who loves Cloud from FF7, there's even a character for you. He uses a massive sword which may even be larger than Cloud's buster sword. There's many others that can suit you, I only mentioned a few.
Each character uses his own weapon ( halbred, daggers, spear, axe, hammer, mace, club, various different swords, staffs, which are used to cast spells, fans, which are also used to cast lazer-like spells, circular blades, claws, and many, many more.), uses them to kill in their own style, and fights for a slightly different cause than any other. All of the characters has a story that unravels in the game.
Decent voice overs too. Although, Yuan Shao's voice sort of weirds me out.

Replay Value: 6/5
I hardly ever play games over, but this one I play all the time. That actually makes me feel sorry for myself. Whatever. There's many challenges in one level, huge amounts of different units, ambushes, nasty tactics from your enemy, tons of officers that give your character upgrades for killing them, the whole morale thing, and many other factors that add up to a great game. I'd highly advice getting it, before Amazon stops selling it and only allows you to get it used. Hey, and it's pretty cheap for a PS2 game.

Dynasty Warriors....3!

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