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Dynasty Warriors 5 | 
 enlarge | From: KOEI Corp
Category: Video Games
List Price: $16.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 3892
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 00141
Model: 40198001410
UPC: 040198001410
EAN: 0040198001410
ASIN: B0007QRKA0
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Features:
| • | Massive roster of 48 playable characters -- largest cast ever for a Dynasty Warriors game | | • | New Jump attacks, new Musou Rage attacks and blazing 9-hit Evolution Combos | | • | Bodyguard officers give single players Double Musou attacks | | • | 38 newly designed maps, with environments that have their own look and feel | | • | Enhanced battlefield base system and intelligent soldiers respond to events more strategically |
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Product Description
Dynasty Warriors 5 is the greatest Dynasty Warriors game ever. All of the characters will have their own story, and the events will be viewed from the Warrior's own perspective. Moire powerful weapons, smarter soliders and battlefields that are 30% larger, plus reduced fog and more detailed backgrounds. You'll be challenged to make snap decisions in the heat of battle -- and keep advancing into enemy territory to comple your goal and build a Dynasty. Twice as many characters per screen, for the most devastating Musou attacks ever Enhanced battlefield base system challenges your strategy skills in combat
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 An improvement-but July 31, 2008
If you have played any of the old games, you know what to expect. This one is an improvement on almost all aspects...I only with you had bodyguards still..and a bow.
but it is fun; for both die hard fans and newcomers :)
not a full utilization of my PS3 and HDTV tho...
 Totally addicted June 28, 2008
My husband and I are not usually big video game players, but we got completely hooked on this game. You can play a whole series of levels with each character and each level you "find" things to improve your charaters and unlock other characters. It is really fun.
probably still the best, but getting stale... December 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The fifth instalment of the game that has earned some $500 million for Koei is quite a good version, and will definately impress anyone who hasnt played any of DW5's predeccesors. Its a easy to pick up action game in which you slaughter endless foes in pretty awesome graphics (though theyve gotten stale over the years) and an awesome story to boot.
Dynasty Warriors 5 is a certain improvement over DW4, returning to the 'choose a character'/musou mode which made DW3 such an fun and lasting game to traverse. The graphics as mentioned are improved a little, but the gameplay even less.
The strongholds that can be conquered in the games are a cool addition over DW4, but the story and the way of progressing through the game has all been done before. Level design is also inferior since DW3.
As a game by itself, its really in a class of its own, and I would love to play it like the millions of others - no doubt, but the way they just keep recycling the gameplay it would otherwise only scrape in with 3 stars.
If you arent a die hard fan (like me) and you want to save some money - DW3 or 4 are possibly better purchases OR get the Romance of Three Kingdoms Ebook (the infamous story the game is based on) FREE from DW Three Kingdoms (website is dw3k,com/newrotkebook).
Their new color version of ROTK makes the book almost as interesting as this game itself!
 BORING!!! August 30, 2006
2 out of 23 found this review helpful
Ive never been a big fan of dynasty warriors. But this game is just bad. First off on easy mode you can defat an entire army by yourself. This is because the enemys never attack. once i ran into the center of a group of enemys and i stood still. I didn't get attacked for ten minutes. Also all of the soldgers look identical. there are about three enemys that dont look the same.and there are only 4 hard fights in the entire game. Also THIS GAME IS REPETTATIVE. you have 6 attacks per character but they all do the exact same thing. And one hit kills petty much all enemys. Now this game is long but so what. If you have a huge pile of garbage, is it really any better then a small pile of garbage. and either way it is still garbage. just like this game.
Fun, but Love/Hate continues July 12, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Now I'm probably one of maybe 200 people on the continent that has actually read the entire unabridged "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong, Dynasty Warriors really messes up some of the history and the characters and yet I own 5 of the games. Why? Because they are fun as hell and they got most of it right, right enough anyways.
The Japanese makers have really "animade" the Three Kingdoms and seriously over-exagerated things but that is part of the charm.
I do wonder who decides which people to add, Guan Ping was a nice addition but Guan Xing and Zhang Bao(Zhang Fei's son, name sounds just like the yellow turban) are more important. Xing Cai was news to me, I never heard of her until this game and it sent me into a research frenzy. Suffice it to say, she never would've picked up a weapon(much like all the female characters with the exception of the daughter of Sun Jian, she actually did know her martial arts and put the fear of God into the generals that tried to stop her).
This game does a good job on the Sun family, in that unlike the previous games they actually include that Sun Jian dies before returning home from the (failed)attempt to remove Dong Zhuo from power.
Cao Cao is great, Xiahou Dun, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei all look perfect, just like the ancient paintings.
It may also bring joy to fans to know that Lu Bu did actually have the antenna-like feathers coming from his head. They did ruin him in this game though, they made him the "peerless samurai only searching for a challenge" similar to Musashi when he was opportunistic, petty and a total traitor(he killed his adopted father to join Dong Zhuo then killed him). Honor wasn't high on his list of priorities an dby the time of his capture(and execution) either Zhang Fei or Guan Yu were already strong enough to beat him.
Kudos for having the right Kanji(literally "written characters from China", in Japanese) for the names right.
If you know your Chinese history(which you probably don't, which is okay as few do) you might be bothered, but not enough to stop playing.
Oh, and his name is pronounced T'sao T'sao(Cao Cao) not Cow Cow, I'm almost at the point of murdering that French Voice Director, you'd think that since Koei has a branch office IN CHINA they could at least get my favorite professor's name right.
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