Samurai Warriors
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Samurai Warriors PlayStation 2 Front Cover

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KOEI Co., Ltd.

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Perspective

3rd-person [DEPRECATED]

Setting

Historical Events

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Description

Samurai Warriors is Koei's extension of the popular Dynasty Warriors series. Instead of taking place during the Three Kingdoms era in China, Samurai Warriors takes you back to feudal Japan, during the warring states era. In the game, you take control of actual historical figures such as Yukimura Sanada, Nobunaga Oda, and Hattori Hanzo. Altogether, there are fifteen characters, ten of whom need to be unlocked.

Basically, gameplay is almost identical to that of Dynasty Warriors. The main differences are things like the inclusion of indoor castle levels, and a greater variety of enemies. In Dynasty Warriors, enemies were basically either soldiers or archers. In Samurai Warriors, there are soldiers, archers, musketeers, and many different types of ninjas. In terms of story, there are basically only five levels, but depending on your actions in a certain level specific to each character, the story will branch of into two different stories, leading to a good ending or a not as good ending. Updated graphics and a more "techno-ish" soundtrack top off the additions.

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Samurai Warriors PlayStation 2 The initial character selection, more characters have to be unlocked

Samurai Warriors PlayStation 2 And here is a scene from the "Riding" trial

Samurai Warriors PlayStation 2 Weapon selection

Samurai Warriors PlayStation 2 In the "Deflect" trial, the player is shot at and needs to strike back incoming arrows

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Alternate Titles

"Sengoku Musou" -- Japanese title

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Next Level Gaming	PlayStation 2	May 20, 2004	84 out of 100	84
Game Over Online	Xbox	Jul 14, 2004	83 out of 100	83
Gamesmania.de	Xbox	Nov 05, 2004	81 out of 100	81
GameCola.net	PlayStation 2	Jan, 2005	7.8 out of 10	78
TeamXbox	Xbox	Jul 14, 2004	7.8 out of 10	78
GameSpot	Xbox	Jul 12, 2004	7.3 out of 10	73
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Xbox	Apr 11, 2004	7 out of 10	70
Worth Playing	Xbox	Jul 22, 2004	6.8 out of 10	68
GameSpy	PlayStation 2	May 08, 2004		60
Game Revolution	PlayStation 2	Jun, 2004	C+	58