Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires

by Koei

Product Features

• In the newly revamped Empire Mode, experience the war as an all-powerful lord or as an officer rising through the ranks
• Have up to 6 characters as your subordinate officers
• An easy-to-learn "card collecting" system lets you enact policies that will increase the strength of your empire, improve the abilities of your men, and more
• Customize your warrior with vivid detail including: gender, facial features, voice, clothing, weapon and more
• Use ledges and waterways to sneak into enemy bases and launch surprise attacks on unsuspecting units, then infiltrate and capture supply rooms to change the flow of battle

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001L8DKK2
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 5.3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 23, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,328 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Designed for the legions of Dynasty Warriors fans, DYNASTY WARRIORS 6: Empires is game that brings together the best aspects of the action and strategy genres. In this latest edition, players can experience Ancient China's greatest and most glorious war as an all-powerful lord or as an officer. As a lord, gamers must think strategically. By deciding when to attack, when to resist invasion, or when to initiate policies, a lord can expand their power and influence. An easy-to-learn "card collecting" system lets players enact policies that will increase their empire's strength, improve the abilities of their forces, and more. The cards that a player receives will depend on the attributes of the officers and their army. Players can also pledge their allegiance to a kingdom to become an officer. As an officer, players can suggest policies in the kingdom¿s war council, complete missions for rewards, or even turn against their ruler should relations sour. Most eagerly awaited by fans is a game mode that allows players to create their own warrior. DYNASTY WARRIORS 6: Empires features an extensive character editing system with options to customize a warrior's gender, build, skin tone, facial features, voice, clothing, weapon and more. Whomever players choose to be, they can now use mountain ledges and waterways to infiltrate enemy bases and launch surprise attacks on supply depots to change the flow of battle.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great DW game, with hiccups, June 28, 2009

By 

Rich Ball (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires (Video Game)

DW6 Empires offers a big step forward from DW5E, as it should being the first next-gen programmed title in the series. It uses the same maps (though in some places less detailed) as DW6, which brings the elevations and tactical positions back into play. What's inexcusable is the game lag at times, which is not too bad in single-player, but awful in co-op.

The game has a few weirdisms (getting married comes front-of-mind), but while they don't add much to the game, they don't detract, either, which is handy. Of course, like most 360 games, you can dispense with the generic game music by streaming your own in the background. This means epic battles to anything from Holst's "Mars" to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger". Without further ado, here's some of the run-down:

Pros:
* Create-a-warrior!
* All your faves from DW6 (you know you'll start with Lu Bu).
* Cool weapon-improvement scheme uses the best of DW5 and DW6.
* More intuitive card system.
* Use your own soundtrack.
* Conquer as emperor, or step down and try some new roles.

Cons:
* Really bad lag on co-op.
* Disappearing/reappearing enemies (a la DW5 on PS2).
* Awkward menus layout in places.
* You have to "buy" the ability to start a new game with your previous weapons et al. Not cool.

So pretty much the gist is, if you liked DW5E or DW6, you'll dig this. If you're not a fan of previous installments, this isn't going to fix anything you didn't like then.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires, September 19, 2009

By 

Raphael Auditore (NY, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires (Video Game)

Dynasty Warriors has come a long way. Every DW that came out, has improve somewhat but the fans still buy the game and play it. There are pros and cons of the Dynasty Warriors series but DW6 stands out somewhat.

To much as my surprise, the game is good. I've played the game numerous times and i've wrote down the pros and cons. It could have been improve so much (ex. glitches). Here is my honest review of Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires.

Pros-

* Create your own officer. Change the tone of your skin, hair, voice.

* New weapons. You can customize your weapons and make your officer powerful.

* New power skills. You can have your officer use fire, ice, rockfall, recover by simply holding a button and hitting the button that you wish to use. Ex. if your officer has the ability to use blizzard,(using XBOX 360) hold down the left trigger and hit either A,X,Y,B. The special powers recharge and you can use them as many times as you can.

*Oath,Friends,Married. You can bound an oath to any officer. When you are playing as an officer, you can have up to 3 friends that you can deploy them in battle. Getting married is somewhat fun.. Your spouse can raise your lvl or give you items to help make your weapons powerful.

*The officer mode is great. You can now serve a ruler and have he or she boss you around. You can join whomever ruler you please. Also you will be risen higher rank if you complete a task. The ruler can assign you missions every time there's a war council. You can suggest rules and also who to attack if you disagree. The mercenary mode is where a list of officers and roaming officers placed missions for you to complete if you wish to do so. If you complete them, you can be there friend and have great benfits. Random events will happen in the game too.

*Surprise attacks. When your in battle, you now have the change to do an surprise attack meaning that you can take a base with ease by setting the base on fire and the enemy will be confuse. The downfalls is that you can only do it once and if you get caught by an officer, The countdown will stop and you will have to do it all over again.

*Clothing and BGM (Background music)> If you don't like your created officer clothing, you can now change it with ease. You can change the BGM when your free and when your in battle.

Cons-

*The glitches are a pain! Sometimes I see my foot literally in the ground and my hands not holding my weapon. Once in a blue moon, i would die because of the glitches. In one battle, i sent my officer to defend a base and all he did was walk outside and not move. I ran to him and when i did, he went to defend the base.

*The acting can be improve soo much! The people who did the voice acting for the created officers did such a bad job that some of the voices just wants to make you put your head in the wall.

*When in ruler mode, Officers can freely join your army. Whether you like it or not. I had one time Yuan Shao join my army seven times and i dismiss him. So if your looking for a certain officer to join your army, your percentage of he or she joining your army is low.

*No more ambush cards, netraul bases etc. Koei took out the cards like that and gave you similar cards but it doesn't really do much expect for the fire attacks.

*Limited seranios. The game only gives you The yellow turban rebellion, Chi Bi, Guan Du, Three Kingdoms and A Land in Chaos.

*Over time when you don't battle, the surrounding armies will increase their lvl making them stronger. So if your army is around lvl 20's and you haven't battle for a long time. The surrounding armies can be in the beginning 30's or so. Invading is important when in ruler mode.

*The difficulty. Easy, Normal, Hard, Master and Chaos. Easy and Normal is like in regular Koei game. For beginners. Hard is a tad challenging and is for intermiate players. Master and Chaos is for extreme hardcore Koei fans. Master is BEATABLE! Chaos on the other hand is almost impossible. I died everytime in a battle and it's extreme hard to survive!

*Missing musuo officers and no new officers. Jiang Wei, Da Qiao, Pang De, Liu Chan, Guan Tong, Zuo Ci, Zhu Rong, Xing Cai.

*Lag. Playing co-op can be a challenge. The lag is unbearable and can kill or save you in battle. The appearing and disappearing officers and troops is also a pain and can kill you if you are not careful.

*Level 1 again? When you beat an seranio and you want to play a different seranio, You can keep all the weapons and horses, but your lvl is reset and your training abilities is reseted.

*When in ruler mode, you can only have up to 15 officers. Think of it as Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires.

Overall-

I rate the game 3.5 out of 5 because the game can be improve. It felt like the game was made in a rush and i felt like koei didn't take the time and really look in the game. Think of this game as DW4E and DW5E combine into one. If you still want to play this game, i recommend to rent the game before buying it. The game is great but has it's flaws.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disapointment after a long wait., June 28, 2009

By 

Three Kingdoms Gamer (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires (Video Game)

I'm a hardcore Koei fan. I have about 50 koei games including all of the Dynasty and Samurai Warriors series. I was looking forward to this game all year.

First of all, they did manage to make an improvement. Playing as an officer now is much different than playing as a ruler. That's about it for the improvements.

Now for the problems. This game is hard. It is easily 5 times harder than the last. Normal difficulty is about like hard on the last one. Hard, master, and chaos difficulties are impossible now. Your officers now do nothing for you in battle. I watched as my generals Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Mi Zhu were all routed by a base with no enemy officers in it. There are so many enemy troops, I easily get 1 to 2 thousand ko's in the average battle now.

I was hoping for a new officer to be made unique in this game. Guys like Deng Ai, Zhang Ren, and Yan Liang sure deserve to be made unique. I was extremely disapointed to find out they actually removed some unique officers from the game. My favorite general, Pang De, is gone. Many other officers like Zhu Rong, Xing Cai, Zuo Ci are also gone.

They completely got rid of all the items you used to be able to produce and equip. Now you have to pay all of your officers a salary, which keeps you broke. I always have to dismiss officers I can't afford. They ruined the card system. Now you draw one card each turn, instead of choosing what cards you want. When an enemy officer sets fire to a base, it instantly becomes theirs. In some battles, I lose two or three bases this way. The enemy always cuts you off from your main base, making you halt your advance.

Probably an end to a great series.

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