I've written a full review containing my thoughts of disappointment on this game. It can be found here.

In summary, my disappointment lies within the lack of strategic depth, even by the standards of previous Empires games. While the game can be fun in small doses, it really wasn't as good as I had thought it'd be (which is surprising since I went into it with lowered expectations).

This message was edited by Dine_Agoti on Jul 03 2009.

Even with all of the disappointment, anyone think this is worth buying if you've bought every DW game since 3?

In such a case I think the only solution is to try before you buy: go rent it. For some people the fleshed out CAW mode is enough to warrant the purchase, and I know I had a lot of fun with it.

But I wouldn't recommend going out and buying it blindly like I did, haha. If I had rented it first, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't of bought it.

maybe so, but i feel a little pressured when the villagers wont stop yelling and mission success depends on their survival...especially as slow as ur character runs at the start...

i find it funny when i'm surrounded by guys with lu bu and i do my musou attack and when i throw my weapon 360 around me...i get 3 kills after seeing 10 guys drop dead. i also like it when i grab an officer and do almost zero damage to them when i pummel them.

plus, i love (sarcasm) getting the ability to true speed myself up to the point where i can't control lu bu and i end up just running around like a mad man spinning his weapon. really, there is no point to having a horse when you can just true speed yourself every 10 seconds.

yea, i bought red hare, but, i never use him, true speed is like a third the cost of red hare..besides, i guess im just not much of a horseman, lol