Dynasty Warriors 3
Dynasty Warriors 3by KOEI CORP
Platform: PlayStation2
ESRB Rating: Teen
ASIN: B00005RL4E
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Features:
• New installment in the popular RPG/martial arts series
• Tons of new features and environments
• 10 levels added to the original 8
• Moves past the kill-or-be-killed approach
• Single- and multi-player options
Amazon.com: A great showcase for the PlayStation2 platform, Dynasty Warriors 3 is both a terrific hole-up-for-the-weekend title and a good multiplayer party game. The developers must have been busy with many a user test and feedback survey form: most of the features people complained about in DW2 have been overhauled or tweaked. These improvements mixed with the addition of the two-player option make this a truly great PS2 title. If you liked the last version, you'll be enthralled with this combination of compelling story and complex martial arts action.
Parents--and anyone else interested in a game that's a little more socially redeeming than some of the current fare--take note: Dynasty Warriors 3 is loosely based on remarkable Chinese legends. The violence is well-done and subtle, and playing this game could actually cause your kid to pick up a book (something other than a strategy guide).
Here's what's different:
New characters--and more characters--all with unique personality traits.
Great new cinematics (they're better visually, and provide a more compelling story line).
RPG-style weapons management and "found items."
Two-player games, including cooperative musou and free mode, and combative single games.
Fewer life buns, which means players must be more judicious within big battles (and you can no longer think of officers as food sources).
Important updates are now spoken aloud instead of flashing by as screen text.
More balance in the powers given to each character.
Characters have been recalibrated so that individuals other than the big bruisers--including women characters--have their own advantages. (Zhang He may even be the first gay character in one of these games, based on his killer figure-skating attack.)
Archers are now even more of a threat, and are reasonably indestructible.
For many maps, you now have to be a general before even thinking of climbing on a horse.
One word: elephants
Here's what stayed the same (some of which probably should have changed):
Sparse maps that cause you to retrace your steps frequently.
The stupid Limp Bizkit-meets-Yes soundtrack.
The controls, which is only nice for those of us who built up calluses on the last version.
--Jennifer Hauseman
Amazon.com Product Description: The popular Dynasty Warriors tactical action series is back. Dynasty Warriors 3 has tons of new features and environments, adding 10 levels to the original eight and new troop types, including the terrifying elephant cavalry. You can command your bodyguards with squad-level commands, and take advantage of the improved Musou attacks. The game also features brand-new two-player cooperative and versus modes, along with endurance and time attack modes. And now, if players are caught in a combo, they can evade attacks midair. The greater variety of play modes amd moves means this version moves past the kill-or-be-killed approach of past incarnations, giving you more freedom to explore and pursue a wide variety of goals. And where in the past many scenes were available only with subtitles, the entire dramatic content of Dyanasty Warriors 3 has been dubbed in English, with an ear to psychological realism.
Customer Reviews:
One of the Best Games Ever!, December 3, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer
First of all, this game deserves more than five stars. It is a fun, highly addictive game. It is literally possible to play it for very long amounts of time without realizing it.
Anyways, enough about the fact that it is good, let's get into why. If you've played Dynasty Warriors 2, nothing major has changed, it has only gotten better. For those of you that haven't played it, I will try my best to describe the game. This is a game where you enter battle in campagin (Musou) or one mission at a time (Free) modes then you choose from a list of historical generals from China's Three Kingdom era.
Before entering battle you can choose what your bodyguards are equipped with and you can equip your general with better weapons and items that increase have special effects, including raising your stats.
During the real-time battles, on a variety of battlefields, you fight hundreds, or if you choose, thousands of enemies with your primary weapon, bow, and special move. Your special move has a bar below your health that charges when you grab items, defeat enemies, and get damaged yourself. When you defeat gate captains (enemies who allow an infinite amount of enemies to spawn until they are killed) and enemy generals, you can gather objects that turn out to be weapons, equipable items, objects that permanently raise your attack, defense, max health, and max musou.
After battle your general calculates the experience he gained increasing the number and strengths of your bodyguards.
Other interesting points to this games including new additions from the previous include: you can ride a horse and an elephant, a new multiplayer function, more generals and if you use a memory card with old DW2 saved games, it transfers over some of your unlocked generals. The last good thing about the game I am going to say is that it is virtually only violence.
The bad parts about the game are small. First and foremost it starts harder than DW2, almost impossible, even on easy difficulty. Once you get better weapons it becomes easier. Another downside is you can only unlock generals and best weapons on hard mode. This can take hours, for hard is nearly impossible, even with maxed out characters.
A kick a$$, beat em up, I'm gon mess u up game, November 24, 2002
Reviewer: Mario Oliver
Man, what I don't get is why all game sites out of a total game this a 78%?! What, they ran out of life!? I'n this game, who the hell cares about the story, u jes' play, kick some a$$, 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$$
Best game concept, November 24, 2002
Reviewer: Chris
The only things I would change in this game is two make the characters more powerful when they are riding horses, and to allow an I-link compatibility so for heroes can play at once. The multiplayer on this game is awesome.
My Stress Reliever, November 21, 2002
Reviewer: prehistoric_predator from San Diego, California United States
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.
dw3, November 12, 2002
Reviewer: John Tonz from White Lake, Michigan United States
dw3 is a very fun game the only bad thing is some of the levels are hard. But if you play it a lot it is all easy.
One of the best action games on the PS2!, November 6, 2002
Reviewer: Matt from USA
This is the only game that I have played that you can kill over 2,000 troops in one level! You can unlock up to 40 warriors,ride on horses and elephants,and use musou attacks. Each warrior has a different weapon,such as swords,axes,claws,etc. The musou attack is when you charge up by killing enemies and then going wild with a furious attack. You can battle on land and on a boat. You power up by getting items you find in boxes and killing other generals to get better defense and attack. If you like Devil May Cry, you should buy this. I think the gameplay seems a lot alike. I also recommend Kessen, but the gameplay is nothig alike.
The Story of the 3 Kingdoms, October 28, 2002
Reviewer: Dave from East Grinstead, West Sussex United Kingdom
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
So Cool!!, October 28, 2002
Reviewer: pofolks296@yahoo.com from Tucson, AZ USA
This game is like one of the best games ever made! I love this game so much that I think I am addicted to it! I love it! I love it! Ilove it!
Fight, October 22, 2002
Reviewer: K-dogg from Natchez, MS United States
Dynasty Warriors 3 is among the best fighting games in the 21st century. The only problem with this game is that it is so long, but it'll keep you guessing for a long time to come. You can play as 40 different people with there own special abilities. If you like action adventure games that take place in the past in ancient times get this game its great. The weapons are so tight they have mystical powers and can kill over 20 enemies in one attack. Plus you can ride elephants and stomp on people on your opponents. As you go along you gain points that helps you person grow in power and skill. This game is great for anyone really and if you don't believe me rent it and see for your self you'll see I'm not Lying.
Great game and very addictive, October 1, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from Danville CA USA
What a great game!The graphics are superb!If anyone has played DW2 get this game!Even if you havent played it get this game when you play it you'll not want to stop!
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