This is about as close to realism as koei's warriors series gets. Because of the fairly basic nature, the lack of extra combos and weapons, this game is by far one of the hardest they've made. Your abilities and combos are basically no better or worse than every basic soldier you fight. All you have are better stats. Even crazier, the AI seems more dangerous in this, i swear i've seen them steal my horse.

All in all, it's a pretty interesting experience to go back to this, if you want a really challenging look at how Dynasty Warriors started.

Part of my attempt at testing/listing all ps2 midas games (at least the ones i own, i'm not a masochist).