Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

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

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

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

External links

• Japan Gamecity RTK8/RTK8 power up kit page
• Taiwan Koei RTK8 page Template:Webarchive
• Taiwan Koei RTK8 power up kit page Template:Webarchive