Dynasty Warriors 6 (真・三國無双５, Shin Sangoku Musōu 5) is a hack and slash video game developed by Omega Force and published by Koei for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Another major addition is the skill tree, from which characters can earn higher Renbu Ranks, special abilities and improve their attributes.

Unlike previous games, horses can be found by obtaining saddles randomly dropped from boxes or beaten officers.

The ladder means that the player can now climb onto castle battlements in scenarios such as the Battle of Hu Lao Gate, and dispose of enemy ballistas and the new 'guard' unit.

The first ties in with the improvements to enemy AI, allowing them to travel across rivers and other bodies of water in order to attack you or allied bases.

The seven removed characters are Da Qiao, Jiang Wei, Meng Huo, Pang De, Xing Cai, Zhu Rong, and Zuo Ci.

The amount of leveling up you can do is fairly impressive and each character's campaign takes at least a few hours to work through, providing you with quite a lot of content (despite the repetition).

Kondolojy enjoyed the game, saying that "One aspect of Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires that was surprisingly fun to tinker with was the character creator.

In addition to having a wide variety of costumes and customizable features, you can also integrate your character into the main Empire mode as a vagrant, and can work your way up to become leader of the land."

In this game, Musou modes for Ma Chao, Yue Ying, Cao Pi, Zhang He, Taishi Ci, and Ling Tong were added, and those six characters received new weapons and movesets (rather than being clones).

Likely to coincide with the inclusion of Meng Huo in the Empires expansion, he was additionally added as a Free Mode character in this game.

[54] Like all other Empires expansions, the basic premise of the game is to become a leader whose goal is to conquer and maintain all regions of China.

Additionally, the game supports Downloadable Content which mainly includes new costumes for edit characters and music.

[52][53] Kevin VanOrd of GameSpot said that "The combat is still dreadfully repetitive," "The visuals are still ugly," and "The sound effects and voice acting are still awful."