You still race around the battlefield using your mount, and watching out for unexpected events or changes that require your immediate attention. You still face battles knowing that it's important to keep your allied officers alive while taking out enemy officers amid the thousands of lesser enemy soldiers. Though this latest game adds lots of wrinkles, such as another metered attack, Rage, the basics from the PS2 era could be enough to play well.

In the Story Mode, you pick one of three houses (or the new Lu Bu campaign), pick one of the 82 characters and proceed to fight in large-scale battles against thousands of enemies all themed after 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' As on the PS2, you have a basic strike attack, a charge/heavy strike attack, jump, and a charge meter-based Mosou attack as the foundation of combat.

Even in moving to the PS4, 'Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition' maintains the basic winning formula pioneered on the PS2 with 'Dynasty Warriors 2.' (This is a franchise that is numbered differently in Japan and is really the seventh numbered title, a fact which is occasionally made obvious in the game's UI.) Regardless of mode, you play in third person as one warrior on a large battlefield.

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