Yes, it’s the game that has been bragging about putting you inside a massive battle featuring hundreds of soldiers since 1997, again. This is the handheld incarnation so changes have been made to let the game sympathise with the PSP hardware. This sympathy goes as far as slicing campaigns up into smaller battles so you can hack and slash to victory before the bus arrives or egg boils.

Unfortunately Dynasty Warriors only provides these smaller encounters, which means that you’ll often spend more time selecting which part of the map you want to attack than you will actually attacking it. The multitude of enemy soldiers can cause merry mayhem with the frame rate too, which makes for a game that looks like its PS2 counterpart but plays in a smaller, more intensive, often jittery manner. New features include collectible officers who can be used as special attacks mid-fight or swapped with friends, old features include the nagging feeling that killing identical enemies still isn’t as fun as it should be. But it is still fun.