Underplayed Gems

Dynasty Warriors 3 (2001)

Dynasty Warriors 3 cover
Developer
Omega Force
Publisher
Koei
Platforms
Xbox, PlayStation 2
Genres
Tactical, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Rating
3.5 of 5, 25 player ratings
Where to get it
Website

How it feels

You carve through hundreds of soldiers like a one-person army, overwhelmed by chaos but always feeling unstoppably powerful.

chaoticempoweringrepetitivefast-pacedepic scaleaccessiblecrowd-clearingaction-heavy

About

Dynasty Warriors 3 is the third installment of the Dynasty Warriors series in North America and the second within the Shin Sangoku Musou series in Japan. It is a spin-off from the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms and based around a series of books by the same name, written by Luo Guanzhong. The game contains a number of fictional and non-fictional elements from the same era in Chinese history that Romance of the Three Kingdoms is set. However, it follows the main events of part of the story which is to unify China under the single rule of a kingdom.

Screenshots

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