Dynasty warriors 5 comes out in the UK in summer 2005, but in america and japan it was out in march 15 2005 i think, i heard aswell with DW5 You cannot create your own characters :(, in DW5: XL they should bring it back i think, thats all the information i know of, oh to find out more try either the americian version of KOEI website www.koei.com, or the english version www.koei.co.uk, you should find alot of information on both sites, they dont know when dw5 will be released in the UK but its out sometime in summer.
Thanks
James