Dynasty Warriors is a series of tactical action video games created by KOEI. The award-winning series is a spin-off of KOEI's turn-based strategy Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, based loosely around the Chinese epic of the same name. The first game titled Dynasty Warriors, Sangokumusou in Japan, is a fighting game and not a true part of the series. All English titles are a number ahead of their Japanese counterparts due to the English localization of naming Shin Sangokumusou, a spin-off of the previously mentioned Sangokumusou game, as Dynasty Warriors 2.