Dynasty Warriors 5 PlayStation 2

Best Yet

By DanielC GM  Jun 8, 2005

Pros: Combines all the good of each pervious in the series

Cons: Menu is a bit more unfriendly than before

So if you combine the unique story "Musou Mode" feature of Dynasty Warriors 3 (DW3) and combine it with the more customizable character and item features of Dynasty Warriors 4 (DW4) and loose the buggy graphics of both versions, you have th...is game. As if killing off every man and woman of age within the borders of Ancient China wasn't fun already, they also fixed the history of each character so that, unlike in previous versions, you can't be immortal living beyond your time. It gives the player more of a sense of what "really" happened in one of the oldest works of fiction in the world. It isn't all great. They did loose the user-friendly menu from DW3 and DW4 in favor of a much more annoying one. The sound is not improved, but is still better than any other game from the same genre (somehow metal just doesn't say ancient China to me). And I have to admit that the shortened stories within the "Musou Mode" irritate me and I miss the epic 7-10 level stories. Still, for fixing the parts of the series that they screwed up in DW4 (the worst of the series in my opion), I am thrilled. Read more Less