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Dynasty Warriors 2

Released October 26, 2000 · consists of 3 releases.

Dynasty Warriors 2 is a historical hack-and-slash game based on Luo Guanzhong's novel, "The Romance of The Three Kingdoms". It is unusual in being a different genre from the original Dynasty Warriors, which was a fighting game.

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Dynasty Warriors 2

First release date October 26, 2000
Platform PlayStation 2 , PlayStation Network (PS3)
Developer Omega Force
Publisher Koei , KOEI Korea Corporation
Genre Action , Strategy , Simulation
Theme Alternate Historical
Franchises Dynasty Warriors , Musou
Aliases Shin Sangoku Musou

Overview

Dynasty Warriors 2 is the second installment of Koei's popular fighting game franchise, and the first game to move from the original's one-on-one fighting structure. The game is heavily influenced by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel written by Luo Guanzhong in the fourteenth century, which is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature.

Gameplay

The game has the player control one of twenty-eight characters and fight through China's turbulent Three Kingdoms era in a bid to unite the land under one rule, starting with the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184AD, and ending with either the Battle of Yi Ling in 222AD or the Battle of Wu Zhang Plains in 234AD, depending on the chosen character's allegiance.

Each of the game's stages is a large, open battlefield in which the player must fight enemy soldiers and officers in order to complete simple objectives and ultimately defeat the stage boss. One gameplay feature that separates it from the games that followed is the manner in which it handles interim saves. Rather than allow the player to pause at any time to use an interim save, there are save tokens in select pots in each stage. When the player collects one of these tokens, the opportunity to save is presented.

Characters

The game initially allows for the selection of 9 characters, with an additional 20 that become available after being unlocked. This title sees an additional 14 characters added to the original's roster, with the exclusion of Oda Nobunaga and Toukichi (both likely removed as they are part of Japan's Sengoku era). Characters that have no allegiance to Shu, Wei or Wu are only usable in Free Mode.

Shu

  • Zhao Yun
  • Guan Yu
  • Zhang Fei
  • Zhuge Liang
  • Liu Bei*
  • Ma Chao*
  • Huang Zhong*
  • Jiang Wei*

Wei

  • Xiahou Dun
  • Dian Wei
  • Xu Chu
  • Cao Cao
  • Xiahou Yuan*
  • Zhang Liao*
  • Sima Yi*

Wu

  • Zhou Yu
  • Lu Xun
  • Sun Shang Xiang
  • Taishi Ci
  • Sun Jian*
  • Sun Quan*
  • Lu Meng*
  • Gan Ning*

Other

  • Diao Chan
  • Lu Bu
  • Zhang Jiao*
  • Dong Zhuo*
  • Yuan Shao*

BOLD denotes initial characters. * denotes characters new to the series.

Stages

There are a total of eight stages in the game that can be accessed either by playing through the Musou/Story mode, or by selecting them individually in Free Mode. Each of the stages are based on actual battles that took place in history.

  • The Yellow Turban Rebellion (184AD, Imperial Forces vs. Yellow Turbans)
  • Battle of Hu Lao Gate (191AD, Allied Forces vs. Dong Zhou Forces)
  • Battle of Guan Du (200AD, Cao Cao's Forces vs. Yuan Shao's Forces)
  • Battle of Chang Ban (208AD, Liu Bei's Forces vs. Cao Cao's Forces)
  • Battle of Chi Bi (208AD, Liu Bei and Sun Quan's Forces vs. Cao Cao's Forces)
  • Battle of He Fei (215AD, Sun Quan's Forces vs. Cao Cao's Forces)
  • Battle of Yi Ling (222AD, Sun Quan's Forces vs. Liu Bei's Forces)
  • Battle of Wu Zhang Plains (234AD, Liu Bei's Forces vs. Cao Cao's Forces)

Trivia

  • Dynasty Warriors 2 was a launch title for the Playstation 2 in North America.
  • The game was not marketed as a direct sequel to the original Dynasty Warriors in Japan, where the original game is called Sangoku Musou. The follow-up is actually titled Shin Sangoku Musou, which has lead to a discrepancy in title numbers for international releases as Shin Sangoku Musou 2 in Japan is Dynasty Warriors 3 in English territories.
  • The song that plays during the credit sequence is Can't Quit This!!! ～KNOCK'EM OUT～, performed by Japanese electronica/dance group m.o.v.e. Despite the ESRB rating of Teen for only "Animated Violence", the word "fuck" can be heard among the lyrics.

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Shin Sangoku Musou
Shin Sangoku Musou
Platform PlayStation Network (PS3)
Region Japan
Developer
Publisher
Release date November 28, 2012
Product code None
Company code None
Rating CERO: B
Minimum Players 1
Maximum Players N/A
Resolutions N/A
Sound Systems N/A
Single player Features N/A
Multi player Features N/A
Widescreen Support No
Notes N/A

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