Dynasty Warriors 5

Dynasty Warriors 5 is the fifth numbered installment in the Dynasty Warriors series. So far, it's the title with the most amount of characters and number of spin-offs. The game's characters, visuals, and fighting style are also the most publicized versions to date.

New Features
Several new features appear in Dynasty Warriors 5 including:
 * Musou Tokens - Items you pick up on the ground by killing peons (every 100 with ultimate weapon). When you have one and press R3 your character glows gold and his/her attack doubles, immune to flinching from normal attacks, can use true musou, and gains full musou bar. Last for 15 seconds.
 * Evolutionary attacks - With a full musou bar and a weapon with a blue dot on it you gain an additional 3 or more attacks to your chain (normally SSST)
 * 6 new characters - Guan Ping, Xing Cai, Ling Tong, Cao Pi, Pang De, and Zuo Ci.
 * Weight System - Each Weapon comes with a weight with effect: Light= fast but weak damage (75% damage), Normal= average speed and power (100% damage), Heavy= slow but heavy damage (125% damage).
 * Single bodyguards - Only one body follows you arround. The bodyguards come in classes, gain abilities, but don't change weapons.
 * Orb obtaining - You don't obtain orbs randomly anymore, you find them like ultimate weapons.

Characters
Shu:


 * Liu Bei
 * Jiang Wei
 * Zhao Yun
 * Guan Yu
 * Guan Ping (new)
 * Yue Ying
 * Pang Tong
 * Huang Zhong
 * Zhang Fei
 * Zhuge Liang
 * Ma Chao
 * Xing Cai (new)
 * Wei Yan

Wu:


 * Sun Shang Xiang
 * Lu Meng
 * Lu Xun
 * Taishi Ci
 * Huang Gai
 * Xiao Qiao
 * Da Qiao
 * Zhou Yu
 * Zhou Tai
 * Sun Ce
 * Gan Ning
 * Sun Quan
 * Sun Jian
 * Ling Tong (new)

Wei:


 * Cao Cao
 * Cao Pi (new)
 * Zhang Liao
 * Zhang He
 * Zhen Ji
 * Xu Zhu
 * Xu Huang
 * Xiahou Dun
 * Xiahou Yuan
 * Sima Yi
 * Pang De (new)
 * Dian Wei
 * Cao Ren

Other:


 * Dong Zhou
 * Lu Bu
 * Diao Chan
 * Zuo Ci (new)
 * Zhu Rong
 * Meng Huo
 * Yuan Shao
 * Zhang Jiao

Expansions

 * Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends
 * Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
 * Dynasty Warriors 5 Special - Xbo 360 and PC version of the game that combines elements with the original game and Xtreme Legends (excluding the Edit Mode and Destiny Mode features). Sports higher res graphics and is exclusive to Eastern regions in Asia.

Spin Offs
The games listed below either use character visuals or movesets from this title.


 * Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2
 * Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle - simplified and stylized versions
 * Dynasty Warriors Mahjong
 * Dynasty Warriors: Online/BB
 * Warriors Orochi series

Related Media
Koei published a series of trading card game (「真・三國無双 4」トレーディングカードゲーム) based on Dynasty Warriors 5 on July 29, 2005. The cards are illustrated by Hiroyuki Suwahara. Starter box (53 cards) cost 1500 yen, while booster pack (10 cards) cost 280 yen. Available starter box including Wei set, Wu set, Shu set.

There are total 266 cards in the game, including 36 commander, 160 general, 35 strategy, 15 trap, 20 item. Booster pack include 10 cards from the set of 266.

Meister Japan created mini replicas of the game's weapons.

Trivia

 * A particular fighting scene in The Restless caused quite a stir with movie goers, many claiming that it took inspiration this game's intro sequence. Though the director denied the claim, it was a somewhat popular topic for its time.