Dynasty Warriors 8 (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dynasty Warriors 8

The main mode in this latest installment in the Dynasty Warriors series is Story Mode, which follows the stories of the kingdoms of Wei, Wu, Shu, and Jin. This completely new story includes new episodes with…

71 28 February 2013

What Dynasty Warriors 8 is

Dynasty Warriors 8 is an adventure game developed by Omega Force and released in 2013. It was published by Koei. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dynasty Warriors is a series of Japanese hack and slash action video games created by Omega Force and Koei. The series is a spin-off of Koei's turn-based strategy Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, based upon the Chinese novel of the same name, which is a romanticised retelling of the Chinese Three Kingdoms period.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Dynasty Warriors 8 holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Dynasty Warriors 8 launched on 28 February 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Mass Effect 3: Citadel. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Mass Effect 3: Citadel.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer