Here's how Koei Tecmo's blurb says it's supposed to go: Players get to play as one of 700 historical characters during the era of unification, playing through history or trying to change its direction.
Buuut even if you're a die-hard Romantic you might want to check the reviews before you buy. It's a tactical grand strategy RPG wargame sort of a series, now over 20 years old, based on the famous semi-mythical historical epic about China's strife during the second and third centuries. Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII is not new-new, having technically been out since January, but only today did Koei Tecmo release an English version.
