The goal of the game is to complete the objective specified for the type of battle. If there’s no campaign scheduled, then a large 24 player Showdown battle will be held. Campaign battles occurs weekly, where the 3 Kingdoms (Wu, Wei, and Shu) and other possible factions (Such as Dong Zhuo or Yuan Shao) fight for cities and territory. It composes of two main parts, campaign battles and melee battles. The gameplay of Dynasty Warriors Online is similar to its console counterparts. It also poses the introduction of free roam, of which a player can move around their factions city talking to various non-player characters. Players can also see other players that they can battle. Once a character is created, the player enters the world of Dynasty Warriors, defeating opposing armies for experience points. Dynasty Warriors Online allows players to create their own character and choose a weapon from existing playable characters. Dynasty Warriors Online is an massively-multiplayer online game belonging to Tecmo Koei’s Dynasty Warriors video game series, as well as the larger Romance of the Three Kingdoms meta series, which is based on the Great Classical Novel of the same name.