This is a game of two distinct but interlocking halves: the Dynasty Warriors half where you may enjoy the delightful 1 vs 1000 combat system that the series is famous for, and Empires half, where you embroil yourself in matters of court intrigue, mostly via a menu system that’s initially baffling but essentially boils down to deciding which resources your kingdom is in the most need of, be it money, rations, or manpower (that’s an oversimplification, but you get the gist). Without having read it, and therefore not knowing if it has a bit where a scantily-clad demigoddess batters six-thousand guys with a boomerang, it’s impossible to determine if Omega Force has improved on the original text. There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on here – fans of historical action games will instantly find a lot to latch on to, as Dynasty Warriors is essentially a videogame adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a 14th-century historical novel that is considered a foundational work of Chinese literature. Having disclosed that, the answer is: sort of. READ MORE: ‘Total War: Warhammer 3’ review: Creative Assembly at its undisputed best.
Another is to get a novice (me) to try and determine whether there’s anything in it for novices. So, there are two ways to review this: one is to get a series veteran to signal to other series veterans whether or not it’s going to be worth the money they’ve already decided to spend on it.
Which is to say that it has been around for a very long time indeed. Though the prospect of new blood is always a concern for dynasties, the Empires expansion of 2018’s Dynasty Warriors 9 is surely not designed as a jumping-on point for newcomers, being approximately the 10,000th entry in a series that started back when the NME was a print magazine engaged in a culture war with the fledgling government of Tony Blair.
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