The Dynasty Warriors franchise has come a long way since its debut on the PlayStation in 1997. Starting off as a fighting game spin-off of Koei's turn-based strategy Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, Dynasty Warriors became a hack and slash series by the very next entry and has since gone on to...

The only time the main Dynasty Warriors franchise changed up its formula was when it went from a run-of-the-mill 3-D fighting game on the PSone to a massive hack-and-slash game on the PS2.

Dynasty Warriors gets radio towers Given that items can appear anywhere (rare jewels can just pop up in villages for the heck of it!), there's an actual incentive to ride around and wreak havoc while you gather some dope loot.

Simply put the new open world style takes away everything I used to love about this series. I wanted to like this concept but for me I prefer the direction they went with Spirit of Sanada instead of this.

Woahhhhh, if you played any DW from no. 2 up to 8, this game is a revalation! It's the biggest waste of money of the whole 9! What you fell in love with, is now convoluted into; a bland failed-open world version of the game, it's a huge disappointment and to enter into the 3rd gen of consoles with...

it is painful to play this unfinished ps2 quality game

Once you get in to the game it is good to run around but you soon find yourself bored

Wish I could return digital download. Seriously, every single Dynasty Warriors since 3 has been multi-player. Waste of my time and money

long-awaited reboot falls flat

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