#DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 US RELEASE DATE SERIES#

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.

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