Addicting game, but after you have done everything, its a rental.

User Rating: 7.6 | Shin Sangoku Musou 4 (Treasure Box) PS2
Dynasty Warriors 5 is addicting, just like the others, its amazingly fun and you would think with the huge cast of characters and the large amount of modes, the fun could never end. However, about 70% of the characters you probably dont care enough to play through and learn that little bit of information about unless your a die hard dynasty warriors fan who needs to know every bit of information.

Gameplay
Fun, addicting, but gets old as soon as you have done everything, maybe adding an online mode would spice things up, an idea such as allowing each player to play as one general would definatly be interesting and fun too see how stratagy could finally be implmented into dynasty warriors rather then sword swinging victory. However, the game really lacks any value, its becoming like the madden franchise and i personally think they should get a head start and start naming the dynasty warriors by the year. May as well wait for Dynasty Warriors 10 and not spend 50 bucks a year for a game your gonna end up throwing away after tyhe next version of the game comes out.

Graphics
Best so far, and not as many frame rate drops as the last.

Sound
Sound is mediocre, some may disagree, i love the music but i hate the voice acting, the crappy american voice acting definatly detracts from the game, and a subtitle mode with japanese voices should be added or maybe just better voice work.

Plot
A pretty interesting plot, just that small bits of information are distributed slowly through all characters story mode, and anyone who has the time to play all of them, must really be interested or have nothing better to do.