Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

2001 video game

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2001 video game

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

PAL version cover art

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)| Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Nintendo Switch, PSP, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
Release| PC

* JP: 29 June 2001

Mac

* JP: 22 February 2002

PlayStation Portable

* JP: 29 March 2007

PlayStation 2

* JP: 24 January 2002

* NA: 13 August 2003

* EU: 26 March 2004

Remake
PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Steam

* WW: 24 October 2024

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. It was released in Japan for Microsoft Windows in 2001, with subsequent Japanese releases on PlayStation 2 and Mac OS the following year. An American version of the game was released on PlayStation 2 in 2003, and a Japanese PlayStation Portable version was released in 2007, nearly 6 years after the original Windows version.

A remastered version of the game, titled Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII Remake, featuring the base game plus all extra content in the Power Up Kit, was announced in September of 2023, and was released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Windows in October of 2024.

## Power up kit

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Power up kit includes following features:

* Marriage between generals, which can create offspring 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.

Although the Power Up Kit features were not incorporated into PlayStation 2 version of the game, they are fully integrated into all releases of the Remake version.

## Reception

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

## References

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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

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* Japan Gamecity RTK8/RTK8 power up kit page
* Taiwan Koei RTK8 page Archived 2017-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
* Taiwan Koei RTK8 power up kit page Archived 2017-12-03 at the Wayback Machine

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Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms video games

Main series|

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms
* II
* III: Dragon of Destiny
* IV: Wall of Fire
* V
* VI: Awakening of the Dragon
* VII
* VIII
* IX
* X
* XI
* 12
* XIII
* XIV

Spin-offs|

* Battlefield
* Online
* Kōmeiden
* Sōsōden
* Dynasty Warriors
* Dynasty Tactics
* Kessen II
* Yo-kai Sangokushi

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