The primary resource you use in the mode is gold. From here, it's all about conquering new territory, as well as defending your own.ĭoing so is a multistep process that consists mostly of maintaining resources and upgrading via orders.
In some cases, you also have the option of using a created warlord (via the game's edit mode) to occupy a currently vacant territory. There are six distinct scenarios available in the empire mode, and you can choose to play as any of the available warlords that currently occupy territory on the map of China that is the primary menu in the empire mode. The empire mode is an interesting hybrid between the "kill lots of dudes" beat-'em-up gameplay the series has employed for years, and a strategy element that gives those many, many battles some honest-to-god context. The primary difference in Empires is that it replaces the individual story modes of the original game's many, many characters with the empire mode. Yes, you once again have to mash buttons and cut hundreds upon hundreds of dimwitted soldiers to death.ĭynasty Warriors 5: Empires follows the same trials and tribulations of the same caricatures of real-life historical Chinese warriors as the other versions of every other Dynasty Warriors game has. As for Xbox 360 owners, this will be your first chance to try the series on the platform, for better or for worse.
It doesn't contain quite the same level of content as Dynasty Warriors 5 did on its own, but it's still the best version of the game there is on the PlayStation 2. As was the case with the progression from original game release to final update of Dynasty Warriors 4, the fifth iteration of Koei's unstoppable hack-and-slash action franchise set in ancient China started with a warmed-over version of its predecessor in Dynasty Warriors 5, moved on to a menial content upgrade in Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends, and somehow manages to bring it all home with the arrival of Empires, an expansion that turns the endless hacking and slashing on its head with strategy elements that are actually kind of fun, even with all the button-mashing you'll still be doing as battles are fought. The Dynasty Warriors train continues unabated in Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires.
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