Well as a fan I can safely say this is the best in the series...
me and my bud bought it for the co-op and man is it ever great. Best looking of them all by far, great hack and slash controls, ugh just everything that could be improved is improved.
to those of you who played previous Dynasty Warriors you will know that beating a characters Mousou (story) mode can take just a half hour.
Well today me and my friend started at 4:00pm and didn\'t finish until 9:30pm, imagine doing that with 40 more characters, obviously me and my friend were totally noob characters with no items and no great weapons but still... They are soooooooo much bigger, i\'m no nooby, i have DWXL and can survive well on Very Hard on any stage, weather it be against a bunch of archers whatever it is, i\'ve done it.
Maybe I was just going slow or something but thats how long it took an experienced player to do 1 mousou mode. They really try a lot harder to give you a story.
The levels all look great and remember when you use to jump and hit an invisible wall for no reason, all (if not most) has been taken out and the level of freedom is amazing compared to DW3.
If your a fan, you HAVE to get this. Obviously if your not just rent it to play with a few characters (to do everything will take many many many hours).
Comparing this to PAST DYNASTY games only. This gets a 10/10.