Samurai Warriors 2 Release Date Announced

Get out your calendar to schedule the date early next year when you can pretend you are a powerful warlord in feudal japan with the action strategy game Samurai Warriors 2 Empires.  KOEI has announced that the game will be shipping on February 27th, 2007.  Start planning your workout routine to trim off all that holiday weight, so you can fit back into the samurai armor you secretly keep in your closet.

Samurai Warriors 2 combines aspects of Action, Fighting and Strategy games. At the start of the game Feudal Japan is divided into warring states and it is up to the player to resurrect a nation using equal amounts of strategy and strength! The game’s ultimate goal is to unite Japan’s 25 regions into a single nation under one ruler. Prior to each battle, the player will meet with their war council to discuss military and political affairs; then it’s time for combat.

Strangely this is the first “Empires” games to be set in Japan. Accordingly, the game’s deck of 90 policy cards, used to issue military commands and impose political policies, is boosted by 50 new cards inspired by Japanese history, while all-new formation cards are based on historically-authentic samurai attack formations.

Special events in the game chronicle major turning points in Japan’s history including “The Honnôji Incident” where the powerful warlord Oda Nobunaga, met his demise, and “The Battle of Kawanakajima,” considered the largest and most prolonged encounter of the Warring States era.