Dynasty Warriors 4: Xtreme Legends

Dynasty Warriors 4 Xtreme Legends (真・三國無双3 猛将伝, Shin Sangoku Musou 3: Moushouden) is a spin-off of Dynasty Warriors 4. Players can import previous versions of their characters in this game if they have an original Dynasty Warriors 4 disc.

Changes

 * The game introduces a new feature called Legend Mode. This trend continues with alterations in the following Xtreme Legends expansion.
 * Two new difficulty settings (Novice and Expert) are included in this game. Expert setting causes all playable CPU characters to use their Lv. 10 weapons in battle by default.
 * Characters can upgrade their weapons up to Level 11 by perfecting their own legend stage under the said Expert difficulty setting, and said Lv. 11 weapons despite having less weapon attack power than their Lv. 10 counterparts, also now have extra stats bonus stats much like previous weapons in the third installment as compensation, as well as elemental activations on any of the characters' Musou Attacks and True Musou Attacks alike.
 * Nine new rare items are introduced. Previous rare items can also be obtained by playing through specific Legend Modes. Sometimes, these are easier to achieve than the original requirements.
 * Xtreme Mode, a mercenary-like adventure where anything goes, is introduced. The main goal in this mode is to survive as long as possible and conquer the other provinces.
 * Weapon reset is now available, which allows the player to now reset weapon levels much like resetting characters' stats, and allowing Lv. 10 and Lv. 11 weapons alike to be re-acquired multiple times through this function.
 * Improved and tweaked enemy AI, such as CPU officers using taunts to break guards as one of the newly added traits.

Bugs and Glitches
AI Glitch Despite the improved AI, there exists a flaw the player can take advantage of for more easier stage runs for weapon acquisition and the like. First, one must start a stage on Expert difficulty, perform an intermission save and exit out to the title screen. From there, they must change the difficulty to Novice setting, and start a new stage select (DO NOT reload your current intermission save file) then do a soft reset (Select + Start). After the soft reset, then you can reload the intermission save file. This will result in the game reading that is has been set to Expert difficulty, even though the in-game enemies at that time will act as if set to Novice difficulty.

Walking on mountains Akin to a similar glitch in the Dynasty Warriors 3 version of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, this is to be done on Zhang Jiao's Legend Mode with any character. Upon setting yourself up next to the east side of the northwestern entry point while mounted on a horse (make sure the mountain side is to the character/horse's right), get off and you may have a chance of landing on the mountains and can traverse along outside of the map, as seen here. Note that it is not confirmed yet to work on other similar Ji Province map with the same area that can be accessed.