November 18, 2008 - The original
Dynasty Warriors 6 hit the PS3 and 360 early this year and now Koei's button-mashing extravaganza is making its way to the PC. This new version offers all the content from the current-gen console release but oddly lacks all the new content from the recently released PS2 version. To me, the entire game feels like a step backwards, despite the extra nine months of porting. The PC version not only looks atrocious but just doesn't feel satisfying. As has been the case for years, the
Dynasty Warriors games aren't fun any more and any positives that can be found in the experience are lost in a sea of overwhelming issues.
If you're incredibly late to the party,
Dynasty Warriors 6 yet again follows the exploits of ancient Chinese
warriors of legend in the time of the Three Kingdoms. Names and places are thrown around flippantly in the game's Musou mode, the main source of "narrative" and the game type you'll be spending most of your time in.
Dynasty Warriors 6 also has a Free mode which lets you revisit previously beaten scenarios, and special Challenges that are set in the same gameplay mechanics but task you with different goals, like speed running through an environment or destroying environmental objects. These Challenges are a joke, honestly, but I'll touch on that later.