

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce 2 includes several characters who didn't exist during the Three Kingdoms period. Lastly, guest characters were added in the original Dynasty Warriors, and Dynasty Warriors 3. These characters are labeled as " Other".
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The three kingdoms struggling in each game are Wei, Wu, and Shu but the series also adds characters from miscellaneous, unaffiliated factions into the mix. Both the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series crossover in the Warriors Orochi series. The mechanics set in this series help influence game play elements in Koei's other titles, some of which include the Samurai Warriors and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam series, Kessen III, and Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War. Whenever they ask the person questions, he/she can correctly identify a particular place, person, or battle on the spot. A particular individual in the Omega Force team also knows the time era "like the back of their hand". However, developers do rely on other novels, books and movies they have personally read or seen. They also don't have a formal team of historical researchers like the ones seen in Koei's historical simulation titles. The new features that are added into the series strive to never be too complicated, hoping to add another entertaining aspect for every type of fan of the Warriors games.Ī recent Dengeki PlayStation interview reveals that the development team look at other Three Kingdoms period media frequently in between designing each entry. Keeping in touch with the core ideas of its fighting game counterpart, the Dynasty Warriors series is designed to always be inviting to beginners to either the series or the action genre. The English equivalent for the same term is Warriors series. In the east, games similar to it are referred to as the Musou franchise. The series started its own type of genre. Kou Shibusawa states that it was his personal desire to capture the excitement and thrill felt by the events in the novel. Eventually, the series's appeal was allowing the player to be a "one man army" versus the thousands of enemies in ancient China. Though listed under the action game genre, creators strove to make the series a "fusion of real time strategy and action". Any series anniversary that they celebrate will be based on Dynasty Warriors 2's sales date. Omega Force considers the Shin titles as the true start of the brand.

Hence, the Japanese title for Dynasty Warriors 3 is actually Shin Sangoku Musou 2 and so on. To establish a distinct difference between the first game, the word "true" (真, shin) was inserted for the second title. After they decided to incorporate more elements from the Three Kingdoms era, it eventually became the hack-and-slash hit that it's known for today. To make themselves stand out, they envisioned a battlefield scenario and focused on the prospect of the player working with a team to fight against several opponents at once. When the developers wanted to port the fighting game to the PlayStation 2, they had second thoughts due to the fighting game boom at the time. There were talks over whether they should develop the game in-house or pitch to another developer, but Omega Force won out. However, since many of Koei's employees are fans of the Three Kingdoms era, the concept of a Three Kingdoms action game was unconsciously made by the team. It draws inspiration from the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which entails the epic struggle of power between three kingdoms in ancient China.īefore the first game was conceived, Omega Force members were originally planning on making a brand new action game completely unrelated to history. True Three Kingdoms Unmatched) is a series of Hack-n-slash action games started by Koei and created by Omega Force.

Three Kingdoms Unmatched or 真・三國無双, Shin Sangoku Musou, lit.

Dynasty Warriors (三國無双, Sangoku Musou, lit.
