While there has been a general rule that Dynasty Warriors games are only released on home video game consoles, Tecmo Koei have this evening announced that they are shattering this commonality and publishing Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition on the Windows PC platform. Available exclusively through the Stream Digital Download service, fans will be able to pick it up across western territories from May 13th, 2014.
This will be the same edition released on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita which also hadn’t received a previous release of DW8 – including the full original game and all the content from the standalone expansion DW8: Xtreme Legends. System specs are available below:
Minimum Specs
Operating system Windows Vista / 7/8 / 8.1,
Main body CPU: (i7 860 or more recommended Core)
Core2Duo 2.4GHz or more
Memory : 512MB of RAM or more ( 1GB or more recommended)
Recommended Display : 1280X720 pixels or True Color display (can display 16:9)
Hard drive space: 18GB
Video card : VRAM256MB or more ( 512MB or more recommended)
3D acceleration corresponding to pixel shader 3.0 and above
DirectX9.0c
Game Pad compatible
Yasutomo Watanabe | General Manager of Tecmo Koei Europe
We are very happy to finally be able to bring this fantastic game to PC. We feel that this is a very fitting platform for tactical action titles and believe that it will satisfy our fans as well as allow them to enjoy hours of gameplay with enhanced graphics and higher frame rates.