Dynasty Warriors 5

THE GOOD:
Individual Musou modes
Back to the DW3 style of weapon and item finding
Simpler maps

THE BAD:
Chaos mode
Some characters have been nerfed
Too easy to complete

SUMMARY:
It's a great game for people who have never played the Dynasty Warriors series because of its simpler to read maps. Easy mode is rather easy, and it gives you time to sample a character's moveset to determine which is a character's best move to use. The caches of items/weapons are easy to find because they're right next to each other, and we're back to individual Musou modes, but with the characters telling the stories themselves.

Now for the bad. For those of you who have played the other games in the series, this is probably too easy for you. Even a 5-star stage in Hard mode is too easy to pass when you have a character with a 4th weapon, all the right items, and maxed core stats. Chaos mode just seems too unrealistic to me--you'd have...

THE GOOD:
Great graphics.
Bodyguard system has been improved
There are more varieties of strongholds in this game
Great game play taking into consideration there's a lot going on at one time on a screen.
48 playable characters with their own story.
7 new characters.

THE BAD:
The voice acting isn't as great as the early Dynasty Warriors weren't and the music gets really annoying after a while.
some of the deaths aren't very realistic.
Gameplay gets repetitive.

SUMMARY:
This game is just like the other Dynasty Warriors games you've played (except for the original Dynasty Warriors game which is like the Tekken/Soul Calibur games). It's the same old beat-em-up gaming and it can get tiring after a while.

The game kept me glued for quite a while trying to max our characters, beating all of the characters Musou mode (story mode) and getting each of the characters fourth weapons kept me busy. But it was...

THE GOOD:
Big improvement over Dynasty Warriors 4, fixes many of the flaws there
No more isolated duelling
New bodyguard system

THE BAD:
The damage ratios are still not as they should be and that ruins most of the game
No CAW mode
No Lightning element
Still uneven morale

SUMMARY:
Yet another Dynasty Warriors game has been and gone and had an expansion pack announced. This game is a big improvement over Dynasty Warriors 4 in my opinion but falls behind Dynasty Warriors 3 for one fundamental reason and that's the damage done, which I'll get to later.

All the basic principles are the same as before, just different maps, new maps, new characters and new items. You control a famous warrior from 2nd-3rd century China and have to battle through maps filled with hundreds, sometimes thousands of enemy troops. You have allies to help you, but they usually do little. Most of the old items make a return which is good because there...

Dynasty Warriors 5 is one of the newest games for its series, as well as the PS2. Just about all fans of the Dynasty Warriors have bought the game, and if you aren't a fan yet or don't know much about Dynasty Warriors 5, now is the opportunity.

Dynasty Warriors 5 is an action fighting game, where you can select a warrior from the 3 different armies, named Wei, Wu, and Shu. Each army is fighting to end the chaos to the land, and they move through out the land to conquer all the territories. You can choose Musou mode, which is a story mode for the warrior you choose. In Musou mode, you'll learn about your warrior, what he/she was fighting for, and much more. In most of the Musou modes for all the warriors are a series of five battles that must be fought. As you progress through each battle, the story continues, and so on until you've completed the Musou. After you complete the Musou, you'll learn much more about the history and your warriors role in the war of the Three Kingdom...

When I saw that Dynasty Warriors 5 was coming out, I was as excited as an unwed teenage mother. Why, you ask? Well, it is, afterall, the same damn game since Dynasty Warriors 1.

Continuing the boring actions as the past 4 games, you battle through the war of the 3 kingdoms in ancient China with a cast of massive characters, including, no joke, a character named Cao Pi....

Using the predetermined characters since create-a-character is gone, you get to bust through the massive battlefields using a square and triangle button alongside your crazy mushu moves. The graphics are nice and slow down in the past has finally been improved to no longer happen. Too bad they don't reanimate any of them, so you'll be repeating the last same game.

New animals add to the fray in the retold story of the War of the Three Kingdoms, as mentioned before. If I really wanted to see fighting and hear the same story again, I'd go watch "Hero." At least then I...

THE GOOD:
-48 Characters (6 new)

THE BAD:
-Boring, Very Boring
-The same stuff
-Voice Acting

SUMMARY:
Will folks lets start off by saying DW5 is not that good of an addition to a series that has been going downhill the past few years. I will explain later on but lets continue with the basics, basically koei has delivered some pretty good options to enhance the gameplay slightly. Such as an enemy stronghold system that somewhat acts as part of the enemy's morale, as well as a system that allows you to only have one body guard. Yes you only get to use one body guard compared to the handful you could access in DW4, but this single body guard is a good fighter, and you can combine your musou attack with the body guard. Other than those two new features the graphics are slightly improved and you get to unlock 6 new characters out of 48 in all. Now on to the game modes, you of course have none other than the musou mode which allows you to play...

THE GOOD:
Better graphics
Further visual range
Unique stories for every character
More enemies onscreen
Added combo's
Additional costumes
New Mousou Rage
Co-op Mousou (Story Mode)
6 new characters
Better items
Better bodyguards
Chaos difficulty

THE BAD:
Bad acting
Glitchy moments
No create-a-character
No create-a-bodyguard
Repetitive
No Versus Mode

SUMMARY:
This installment of the game has been greatly improved, the graphics have become more colorful, and detailed, making the game look that much better. Their clothes will flow around when you run, and since people expectations for graphics are rising, good graphics for games is needed.

The further visual range is from Koei removing the fog that the older DW games used to have, and in doing so you can see enemies way off in the distance, or far away structures. I believe that this really helps as it got very annoying in the other...