Customer Reviews

Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Let's get to the real point here. If you aren't a Dynasty Warriors fan, then the game isn't for you. If you want a decent game where you take over lands and create your own empire, the Romance of the Three Kingdom (ROTK) are far better. But then, there's no real action in that.

This game is a lot like DW 4 Empires. You choose a ruler, pick 2 generals and 3 lieutenants and slog your way taking over province after province. There are 6 stories in total (aka musou). 2 are open, the other 4 are unlockable.

Personally, I love the DW games. While you can use the characters that you've grown to love, the whole transferring data from a previous game is lost on me. It seems that the ONLY thing you actually transfer are the items/weapons/orbs/etc that are available to you. However, they all start at Level 1, including the characters! So while you may have maxed out Sun Ce in DW5, you have to pretty much start over.

The controls, graphics, art and gameplay are identical to past DW games. I would still love a 'roll' button like in Samurai Warriors.

Learning how to use the command features can be a bit tedious. All items must be produced and if you use them in battle, you have to produce them again. Which means, you waste a valuable command turn. (Of course, as you gain more lands, you get more turns/choices) In the beginning, it's nearly impossible to get your armies strong. You are able to train your officers, hire new ones, produce items, develop items (each state has their own items which must be developed so you can produce them), make alliances (or annul them), reinforce your officer's troops and a lot more.

The nicest aspect of the game is the EDIT mode. This is where you can create your own character(s). There are, iirc, 10 slots for your creations. I have 7 slots taken and I actually use them MORE than any of the characters already established! It's a different experience when you plug in your own characters as a starting empire to see if they can hack it!

DW games are known to be incredibly repetitive. The button control combos are the same over and over and over. But that's part of the mindless fun! While I don't usually gripe about it in the original games (DW w/o the Empires or XL tags), this game tends to feel a little old. Maybe it's because if you don't make alliances, you get invaded over and over and over again. So it's 1 battle after another.

Still, I love the game and it's just 'thinker' enough for me to really enjoy it.

And just a pointer. If you take out an Empire's Ruler (Cao Cao for example), you receive ALL the lands he has taken over. In the 5th scenario, I annulled Cao Cao, invaded him and took over 80% of the map. In fact, all I had to invade was Ma Teng in the upper left corner and Meng Huo in the lower left corner. That's the easy way. If you really want to slog it out for many hours, try to beat down a huge empire one state at a time!

Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires is a very well made game. The objective is to unify the 25 provinces under your control. You really test your self, as in seeing how well you would be as a strategist (but of course almost all games that consist fighting have to do with testing strategy!) and how well you would be as leader of a dynasty. For instance, if you make good decisions for your dynasty; a good balance of improving the military and the economy conditions and developments, the people will approve and support your governing. If you make cruel, unfair and greedy decisions (such as focusing only on the military improvements and none for the economy), the people will fear you, and will welcome and even may fight along side with invaders of your territory. If you conquer a territory, you have a choice of deciding fates of captured officers, either hiring them (ranging between 400 to 4000 pieces of gold each), or dismiss them. This game also tests your humanity side as well.

Yes, some of the characters are unrealisticly powerful (such as those who do not wear much armor and/or who carry very light weapons), but compare the characters in the Dynasty Warriors series to some of the characters of the Chrouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon genre (if you have seen any of those films), which is likewise chinese-related.

This game is one of the most realistic games I have ever played. My reviews for its individual presentations:

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Character Design :
Another thing I also like about the Dynasty Warriors series is that there are no overly "sexually attractive-designed" characters (if you get my meaning). Just like almost all games, there are a bit unreal sequences (such as a body part moving through fabric, but this problem can be very tricky to undo in character designing. Thus, what's the point of wanting to be perfect in everything?).

Environment: The Environoment was beautifully designed. The trees are wonderful, and the environment is not always enshrouded by mist, as opposed to Dynasty Warriors 4, giving another realistic performance.

Graphics - The graphics (just like Dynasty Warriors 4) were incredible. There was a major amount of detail in almost every plane of graphic design in the game.

Audio:
Sound - The sound contributed a good performance. The footsteps are one of my favorite sounds.

Music - The music as well was pretty good, some songs are more good than others. It's not too modern, which is appropriate for a period of history nearly 2000 years ago.

Voice Acting - The voice acting was likewise good, but there are several sequences when the actors didn't exactly "act into the moment".

Overall: This is a game I recommend to anyone who enjoys "historical games" or who study history in general, such as myself. It is a good game of testing your own knowledge in times of war, and how well of a leader you, yourself would be. If you do not agree, then at least it gives you a sign of how well you would do in war times.

Well this is my review to you. I hope I was of help. If not, then I apologize. Take care, and farewell/Zài jiàn.

I've always enjoyed stategic games, but this game combines both strategy and hack & slash, which is an addicting combination. I've finished the game multiple times, but continue to enjoy as the opponents change and there is often the opportunity to unlock a new option in the strategic parts of the game or a character after winning a battle by recruiting him/her.

I recognize some think that the brand is getting old and that Koei should just stop. Personally, I like having new characters, moves, and the slight differences have been enough to keep me interested. (I originally had Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires which I also thoroughly enjoyed.) Ok--the strategic parts are not that challenging, but I appreciate that it's there. I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much if it was all hack & slash throughout--just need a break from that style of gameplay every now and then which the strategic parts of this game allows.

I kinda liked this one because you could make 10 edit warriors but couldnt change one part of it without starting over including it's rank starting over to 16 even if it was at max but I didn't change it much, and overall it was fun game to play since now I could fight empires with 2 real life people instead of only by self =) but the only thing I didn't like was I couldn't fight the other real life person 1 on 1 or anything like that, only fighting together against enemies but I still think it was a great game and 5/5.

I just purchased Dynasty warrios 5 Empires game and I'm awaiting it's arrival. But recently koei came out with Dynasty Warriors 6 which i'd give 4/5 for overal gameplay performance. When koei makes dynasty warriors 6 Empires or Dynasty warriors 7 it must have these new features if im goin to buy it; Online gameplay which will enable you to fight against other competitive players, Design your own costume would be a great add-on because you don't have to creat a player with only 6 or more clothes options, For example you could select a samurai out fit similar to zhao yun or lu bu's armor in DW6, or you could just strap up with a regular outfit with two swords, and a mask or something would also be kool. i think alotta fans would love it if they were able to upload there own image while creating a character similar to tiger woods 08 for ps3. The technology is there they just have to set it up.

Really enjoyed the this role playing game.I would recommend it to anyone who plays role playing games.

this game is very very very fun but the creat the charecter thingy is very confusing and how do we get more clothes for them

This game is at least better than Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires, the weapons are hard to get but you don't have any challenge modes which I like. You can load the save from Dynasty Warriors 5 Extreme Legends.

I LOVE THIS GAME SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH I WANT TO CRY! HAHAHHAAA BUT ANYWAY THIS IS ONE OF THE BESTEST GAMES I HAVE EVER PLAYED IN ME LIFE!!!!!! ok this game has tons of new stuff way more then DW4.The new stuff is really great there are......well im not gunna tell you cause you need to find out on your own just how awesome this game is and how many hours of fun you will have playing this totally awesome game.Why would i tell you what DW5 has that would totally ruin the fun of getting a new game! so all you really need to know is that this is a really awesome game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no joke!!!! ok bye!!!

Before the purchase of any console I always try to find to which audience each particular console will cater too, after my purcahse however, the first game I picked up was Dynasty Warriors. I heard from others that though it's graphics were a little low key, it's ovverall gameplay would make up for it.

I tell you now I coulnd't have been more disappointed.

The soddy excuse for gameplay I was greeted with was half my soilders at all times standing around like imbeciles while an enemy unit was five centimers in front of ther faces. They was slash once, twice, then continue to stand for another 10 minutes.

"stategy" is not as deep as some other gamers claim. You have the option of supporting your other general(god knows thier own units won't) taking on the heavy offense and clearing way for your generals, taking on the defense statgery and guarding the base, or doing a combination of whichever two, such as defending the base while advancing only slightly further to assist your onslaught.

That said, whichever you chose you should know that the win or lose of a battle and eventually the war is dependent soley on you, simply because nothing else in the game has the intelligence to do it. I know that sounds obvious, but in games such as oh, I dunno Ninety nine nights - the NPCs, (your other generals, and your units) will take it upon themselves to distract the enemy while you clear way, or assist you in defeating the boss. And yes, you can give them orders to wait at certain locals while you proceed, instead of in this game where they just stand there as little more than ambiance while your sole Flamboyantly dressed avatar attempts to actually FIGHT a war.

This game is disgusting. It's just bad. There is no stategy, and whomever claims they didn't see it in Ninety nine nights probably just got frustrated because they kept losing.

But to those whose yet made a decision? Buyers beware. Ninety nine nights with it superior music, voice overs, and overral gameplay if far superior to this bland, boring, and frustating hunk of garbage.