

There are three types of items in game, normal items, red items and weapons which can be equipped before the stage begins and will increase the player's statistics. Items are also hidden throughout stages and can also be obtained by defeating officers. When the next level of weapon is obtained, its strength is greater than the level below it and adds one extra attack to the player's maximum number of attacks.

Each playable character has their own unique weapon that can be upgraded and allows for a maximum of 4 levels of weapon.

Initially there are 15 available characters to play as, new and returning characters can be unlocked by performing special events during battle or simply meeting them during battle. The story progression for Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Jian and officers from their respective kingdoms have the closest relation to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms story. The Musou mode for each character is a linear story where the user cannot change how the story progresses. Each playable character of the three main nations have their own Musou mode which consists of a number of stages that resemble events in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The main play mode of the game is Musou mode, the story mode of the Dynasty Warriors series. To make this possible, officers and commanders have superhuman abilities and have the capability to kill hundreds of enemy soldiers per stage. A higher morale means allied soldiers will attack more frequently and will be more likely to follow through with their combination attacks. As well as hundreds of soldiers in each stage, there are stage specific events to complete that can help the player's army and raise their morale. The player must make their way through the stage defeating soldiers and enemy officers while trying to keep their commander alive. In Dynasty Warriors 3 the player takes control of an officer and must attempt to defeat the enemy commander. Only one expansion was released for the game, Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends and it was the first in the Xtreme Legends series. The gameplay engine and the graphics engine have also been updated, providing higher quality environments, textures and general overall graphics. New stages, characters, weapons, attacks and music are introduced providing a completely new experience to a player that has played Dynasty Warriors 2 before.
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It contains a number of fictional and non-fictional elements from the same era in Chinese history that Romance of the Three Kingdoms is set but follows the main events of part of the story which is to unify China under the single rule of a kingdom.ĭynasty Warriors 3 was the first in the series to introduce a two player mode and numerous other improvements over Dynasty Warriors 2. 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. It is third in the Dynasty Warriors series in North America and the second in the Shin Sangokumusou series in Japan.

Dynasty Warriors 3 ( 真・三國無双2, Shin Sangokumusō 2, Shin Sangokumusou 2 in Japan) is a hack and slash video game developed by Omega Force (ω-force) and published by Koei (with distribution handled by THQ for the PlayStation 2 in PAL regions ).
