Kessen II's storyline is more robust than the original game's, so Kessen II is heavily driven by its plot, using both real-time and prerendered cutscenes.

When Kessen II's creators promised an even more dynamic, more dramatic strategy game, they were not kidding. The original Kessen was already a massive leap forward for the strategy masters at Koei ...

The game's setting has also changed. While Kessen II took place in China and focused on the era of the Three Kingdoms, Kessen III will take place in Japan during that country's civil war in the ...

Kessen II is the latest in a seemingly endless succession of Koei games (very) loosely based on the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. This was a time of war and chaos, with the Han dynasty ...

Kessen III may suffer from some problems with how the units behave, but on a whole the game is a lot of fun. There is so much content packed in the game, considering the number of maps and skills ...

The Kessen series melded two elements, ‘game’ and ‘drama’ together into grand epics that have won the acclaim of critics and consumers worldwide. The appeal of commanding one side of an ...

Previous Kessen games were set in the Romance of Three Kingdoms, like the Dynasty Warriors titles. Kessen 3 makes a departure from the era. Instead it’s set in the warring states period of Japan ...

The game uses a full set of characters from the Dynasty Warriors/Kessen games from whence it spawned, and so you can use each of the principle Dynasty generals - Liu Bei, Cao-Cao and Sun ...

KESSEN III is the first sequel to the series in almost four years and will be notable for several sweeping changes to the widely respected franchise. The series' Crowd Engine that was used in the ...

Kessen II looks like it will live up to Koei's promise of an even more dramatic, dynamic strategy experience. The one-year-old game we saw today was still in a very rough, unfinished form, but it ...