• ESRB Rating: Teen

• Genre: Action/Adventure

• Mission: In this awaited sequel, use your tactics to boost your army's morale and perform devastating attacks and raids on enemy troops

The game is turn-base. Your troop will take turn to move and the movement order is based on the troop's morale. The great concept is to use the "tactics" (or special attack) on the enemies. The tactics can be linked to form Combo. The longer the combo chain, the more desvastating the damage you cause to the emenies and the more craft points you could earn so later you would use to learn new tatics for your generals.

It takes a little bit of playing to get learn how to plan out the tactics and link them together. You got to think and plan your troop out or else you won't maximize the effect of the tactics your troops have.

After couple hours of getting a feel of the game and knowing to link the tactics and creat long combo, the game is extremely (again extremely) addictive!

I would give it 6 stars if there is such rating. Koei makes lots of games of the three kingdoms (like romance of the three kingdoms 1-10 both pc and console, Dynasty Warriors, etc...). Dynasty Tactics is another type of three-kingdoms game but Koei has done excellent work coming up with different game concept. This one is again awesome!

I really love it.
Hope you would have fun with it too.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:


One of the best tactical games for PS2  May 05, 2005 By D. White "D-Rock"
I'm a huge fan of the Dynasty series and the characters from the books Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I haven't read the books, but I first got a taste of the characters in an NES game called "Destiny of an Emperor" which still remains one of my favorite games. This game uses all of those characters and more. The gameplay is very in depth, allowing you to recruit generals (both after battle and by having their friends in your army to entice them to join), form armies of varying size depending on the leading general's "Leadership" skills and so on. Battle is fought on a field that is mapped out in square grids. You can chain tactics together to create devastating combos and wipe out your opponents in pretty much one turn. Also another nice thing about this game is that you can play each of the three kingdoms and also play Lu Bu's missions. By playing all of these, there is a mode that will allow you to view the history of each officer that you have recruited into your army from all 4 games combined, so you can kind of get a history lesson as well. The graphics and cut scenes are very well done. The only complaint that I have is that there isn't an Officer Edit option. If they add that into the next installment of the Dynasty Tactics series, the game will be even greater yet! But still, even without the officer edit, you get alot of game for your buck and presently you can pick it up for pretty cheap. So if you are a fan of great tactical games, pick this up. It will take you a while to beat and since you can play 4 different stories, the replay value is very high.


Dynasty Fan  Dec 19, 2010 By Rocky Xiong
I've always loved the Dynasty games by KOEI and I just had to get this game. It's fun and lots of hours of game play.


takes little getting use to  Apr 01, 2007 By J. Brown
for overall fun its ok, but its takes a little getting use to the game play but overall its entertaining


Solid offering again from KOEI, but the same ol' same ol'  Sep 28, 2003 By M. A Jenkins "southerndudeman"
I have now sunk a weekend into DT2, and while the game is enjoyable enough, and a few innovations have been made, I can't help but shake the "been there, done that" feeling. I loved Dynasty Tactics, an innovative offering from about two years ago that added a new strategy line to KOEI's RTK games. Players would control armies and by stringing army tactics together, could initiate devastating combos and unleash awesome destructive power, all while trying to conquer China in the name of their leader.

Tactics 2 offers the same idea with a few surface innovations. First off, the good. Now, there are four storylines you can follow (Lu Bu is the new addition), and the stories entertwine a bit here (I'll leave this to your own discovery, but this pleases me the most). The battlefields have been decreased in size, so a player doesn't have as long to set up the old "Pit" and "Taunt" combos, which makes the battles a bit more interesting. Also, many battles have extra requirements which can net pretty good awards (items). You now can talk to townspeople and mystics in each city in which you are stationed. The mystics offer items and tactics; I have seen (as yet) no use for the townspeople. As you can see, these are really extranneous to the game, but they provide some more flavor, and a chance to understand the characters better.

Now for the bad. Each tactic now has a success probability attached to it. Weaker tactics (such as Charge) have a high probability, while stronger and new tactics (such as Repel II, Arrowstorm and Fire Attack) are a bit lower. If a player chains tactics, these probabilities increase, and morale plays a factor as well. This seems like a good innovation, but it is flawed. Essentially, the numbers are meaningless, PARTICULARLY if the morale is low. For example, if an army's morale is, say 50, and a tactic has a success rate of 75%, really, that means it will hit about 35-40% of the time. I don't mind the fact that the computer will hit tactics at a better rate than I, but I hate these lying numbers. Also, any time a player defeats an opposing army, all tactics used in the combo are restored, which makes the game a bit too easy in my opinion (my armies always possess more troops than the computer, and so the computer exhaust their tactics, leaving me to mop the enemy up with ease). Still, the game is fun. It's just too similar to DT to be awarded 5 stars. Enjoy!

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