A huge improvement on 2, unique movesets for every character, new stages, modes, modes, characters and presentation in general.

Nice visuals, great roster, and the cherry on top is individualised story modes for each character. I knock off marks for the base system and the bad weapon system.

Great weapon system, challenging gameplay, and probably the most chinese feeling ost. However i find the story mode is way too long and repetitive for each character, and that the duels feel kind of meaningless. I also feel things look too dull and brown here.

Probably the best story telling of the series, we finally wrap up the three kingdoms. But inherited a lack of any real challenge from DW6, and lacks replay value as story modes are condensed into one narrative per faction.

The innovative first entry is interesting in it's own right, extremely difficult and barebones, but kind of facinating. It looks undeniably quite ugly at times.

Although the complete edition improves 8 a fair bit, the base game original release was a dissapointing when it first came out. Essentially identical to 7 in virtually every way, and pretty damn buggy on release.

A gargantuan mess, taking a series that requires set structured levels to function and dumping it into an lazy, buggy open world format was a huge mistake. Characters are clones, combat is dull, but at least there's individual story modes.

A huge step back in every conceivable way. Cloned movesets, reduced roster, no combos to speak of, stupid character redesigns, and a reduction in challenge the series still hasn't recovered from.