Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII
Developer(s)	Koei
Publisher(s)	Koei
Director(s)	Kazuhiro Fujishige
Designer(s)	Tadayuki Irie Daichi Akiyama Tatsuya Ishikawa Hisatsugu Ishikawa
Series	Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Platform(s)	Windows 95, Mac OS, PSP, PlayStation 2
Release date(s)	PC JP: 29 June 2001 Mac JP: 22 February 2002 PlayStation Portable JP: 29 March 2007 PlayStation 2 NA: 13 August 2003 EU: 26 March 2004 JP: 24 January 2002
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy
Mode(s)	Single Player, multi-player (max 8)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII (三國志VIII) is the eighth installment in Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series.

Power up kit

Power up kit includes following features:

• Marriage between generals, which can create offsprings for married parties.
• New tactical scenario campaign mode. This mode consists of battles and event surrounding Cao Cao, Lu Xun, or Zhuge Liang. The stories change depending on how to win a given scenario.
• 3 new scenarios added after the death of Zhuge Liang. In addition, there are 60 more generals.
• Editor can change data of general and city.
• Logs for players activities.
• Improved AI.

Power up kit features are not incorporated into PlayStation 2 version of the game.

Reception

On release, Famitsu magazine scored the PlayStation 2 version of the game a 32 out of 40.^[1]

References

1. プレイステーション2 - 三國志VIII. Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.71. 30 June 2006.

External links

• Japan Gamecity RTK8/RTK8 power up kit page
• Taiwan Koei RTK8 page
• Taiwan Koei RTK8 power up kit page