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Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX
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Item Description
Few strategy series have spent as long inside a single story as Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the ninth entry is the one that put the crown firmly back on the player's head. Unlike the two games before it, you always play as a ruler, one of the warlords carving up a fractured Han dynasty, and your goal is as simple to state as it is hard to achieve: bring every city on the map under your banner.
Getting there is a matter of people as much as armies. You recruit historical officers drawn from the classic novel and send them to cultivate cities, raise troops, scheme against rivals and lead campaigns. The Officer Development System lets you spend points on abilities and skills or hand out items to raise stats, while the Personality Dependent System means each officer's temperament shapes how faithfully they carry out orders and how they make decisions once the fighting starts. Planning a campaign means weighing a general's brilliance against how far you can trust him to follow the plan.
Military and political play run side by side, so you can keep negotiating while your armies are still in the field. The map lays out capitals, ports, forts and the terrain between them, and you march out in any of 30 formations, matching the shape of an army to the job in front of it. Fifteen historical scenarios cover the era's famous turning points, joined by five challenge scenarios and five “if” scenarios that rewrite history, and each one can play out to multiple endings. Up to eight players can share a campaign in turn-based multiplayer, which makes for long, treacherous evenings.
PlayStation 2 owners also got a clever bonus: the game can read save data from Dynasty Warriors 4, Dynasty Warriors 4 Xtreme Legends or Dynasty Tactics 2 to unlock an exclusive officer, a neat bridge between Koei's action and strategy lines. Reviewers gave it solid marks for its depth, and for players who first met Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang on a Dynasty Warriors battlefield, it is the chance to run the whole kingdom instead of fighting for someone else's.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2003
- Publisher
- Koei
- Genre
- Strategy
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
The ninth release in KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series casts players as rising rulers in ancient China and challenges them to unite the land under their rule. Following the basic design of earlier titles, players develop and manage large armies as they maneuver across the wide countryside, using both military force and diplomatic finesse to win territory and followers. The hard-core strategy framework is fleshed out with a variety of mission types, branching storylines, and an embellished adherence to the actual history and culture of the setting. Features in this edition include the ability to manage both political and military aspects of the empire, at the same time, allowing players to continue to negotiate while their troops are in battle. While this version of the game resumes the limitation that player characters must be of the Ruler class, officer development has been revised to allow greater control in developing followers. KOEI fans who also play Dynasty Warriors 4 and Dynasty Tactics 2 can use their save files to unlock a powerful, exclusive officer character.
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