Dynasty Warriors 3 - Xtreme Legends
Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends expands the base game with new officer stories, guard growth, challenges, weapons, and harder content, with disc linking for original maps. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.9 / 10
About this game
Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends expands the base game with new officer stories, guard growth, challenges, weapons, and harder content, with disc linking for original maps. Stories, characters, gear, and challenges give experienced players clear advanced goals, while co-op crowd combat remains energetic. Standalone volume reflects expansion status, full linking requires the original disc, and repeated missions, draw distance, or AI remain limitations. It suits dedicated players. This description covers the original ps2 release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.
Collected in series
Dynasty Warriors puts you inside the battles of the Three Kingdoms as a warrior capable of scattering whole formations. Sweeping attacks share the stage with battlefield decisions: which officer to confront, where allies need help and how to keep the advance moving.
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Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends expands the base game with new officer stories, guard growth, challenges, weapons, and harder content, with disc linking for original maps.
Stories, characters, gear, and challenges give experienced players clear advanced goals, while co-op crowd combat remains energetic. Standalone volume reflects expansion status, full linking requires the original disc, and repeated missions, draw distance, or AI remain limitations. It suits dedicated players. Overall, its main strengths are Stories, officers, gear, guards, and challenges add goals; Co-op and harder content reward series players. Its material limitations are Full linking requires the original disc; Repeated missions with draw-distance and AI limits. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.
Strengths
- Stories, officers, gear, guards, and challenges add goals
- Co-op and harder content reward series players
Weaknesses
- Full linking requires the original disc
- Repeated missions with draw-distance and AI limits
Who it is for: Players who value stories, officers, gear, guards, and challenges add goals and can accept the recorded release's limits.
Play notes: Before playing, expect full linking requires the original disc and repeated missions with draw-distance and ai limits; this assessment covers the recorded platform release.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Co-op and harder content reward series players; Repeated missions with draw-distance and AI limits. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Stories, officers, gear, guards, and challenges add goals; Full linking requires the original disc. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Co-op and harder content reward series players; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Judged on the original ps2 release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Full linking requires the original disc. | Reviewed | 6.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Koei Tecmo Games
- Publisher
- Koei Tecmo Games
- Release date
- 2002
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genre
- Tags
- Level ProgressionThird PersonHistoricalReplayableMelee Combat3D GraphicsLocal Co-opLinear Levels
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 2Worldwide2002
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