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[BuddyC]

Burlingame, CA - June 25, 2004 - KOEI, recognized worldwide as a leading
brand of strategy and action games, today announced that Samurai
Warriors(TM) for the Xbox(R) video game system has gone gold. The Tactical
Action game will ship to North American retailers on July 13, 2004. Gamers
can still pre-order the game now at ebgames.com and gamestop.com.

About Samurai Warriors for Xbox
SAMURAI WARRIORS for Xbox includes new features exclusive to the console
including in-game Dolby(R) Digital, and as many as ten more characters per
screen for an even greater challenge.

Set in 16th century Japan, the fall of the Ashikaga Shogunate caused a
series of major wars between individual warlords vying for power. This era
in Japanese history became known as the Sengoku or "warring states" period.
SAMURAI WARRIORS reveals the stories from this dramatic era and combines it
with the Tactical Action excitement for which KOEI has become known.

Gamers can play as the heroic Yukimura Sanada or other legendary warriors
including the powerful Nobunaga Oda, and the mysterious ninja, Hanzo
Hattori. Their quests will take players to the sprawling Japanese
battlefields of Okehazama and Kawanakajima and inside the embattled walls of
Osaka Castle. Through 90 stages of epic battles, players will come
face-to-face with gun-toting troops, echelons of ninja, and deadly kunoichi
(female ninja).

SAMURAI WARRIORS features a new Active Mission System, or AMS, that triggers
distinct missions during battle. With 500 variations, the series of missions
is unique with each play. The new Auto-Formation System, or AFS, dynamically
generates castle levels offering a new experience with each play. With the
game's RPG-style Character Skills System, players can enhance a character's
abilities as they progress through the game. Furthermore, the game's steeds
now have the ability to jump and attack enemy soldiers.

Learn more about the game and the history behind the characters on the game'
s official minisite at www.samurai-warriors.com.

SAMURAI WARRIORS was developed by KOEI's internal team, Omega Force, the
award-winning studio behind the Dynasty Warriors(R) series. SAMURAI WARRIORS
is a Tactical Action game for 1-2 Players and is rated "T" (Teen- Suggestive
Themes, Violence) by the ESRB.

 

[BuddyC]

I can post art and screens if anyone cares. But somehow, I doubt it.

 

[explodet]

Wow, I hope my pre-order is still.... hey, wait a minute!

 

[belgurdo]

Pshaw...everyone knows they'll make some kind of SW XL or something for the PS2. Might want to wait a couple months before getting the Xbox version.

 

[Mrbob]

Koei Xbox ports are disappointing. They usually just make a straight port of the PS2 version.

 

[dark10x]

Koei Xbox ports are disappointing. They usually just make a straight port of the PS2 version.

Do they add 480p though? Most KOEI PS2 titles have pretty rough image quality...

 

[PanopticBlue]

Do they add 480p though? Most KOEI PS2 titles have pretty rough image quality...

Yeah, at least for DW4 it's 480p. I could never find Xbox DW3 so I don't know about that one. Image quality is about what you would expect from Xbox..which is pretty good if Ps2 DW3 & 4 have the same rough image quality as DW2...I dunno cause I haven't played 3 or 4 on PS2. I'm itching to try Samurai Warriors but at this point I'll just wait for the Xbox version if Koei still hasn't sorted their image quality issues on PS2.

 

[Meier]

Samurai Warriors' first month PS2 sales... 65471 -- taking bets on the Xbox version, mine starts at 7,381! DW4 sold something like 200k in its first month or some such so I'm surprised this one did that much worse.

Joking aside, I bought DW4 for the Xbox thinking it'd be slightly upgraded for the more powerful hardware.. boy was I wrong. What a shitty port.. the slowdown was insane. I'll probably buy Samurai Warriors on Xbox again whenever it goes on the cheap though just for continuity's sake.

 

[Future Trunks]

I can post art and screens if anyone cares. But somehow, I doubt it.

Art please. Or a link to the directory for it.

EDIT: I'm still a junior member? Geez, I need to post more....

 

[MoxManiac]

Pshaw...everyone knows they'll make some kind of SW XL or something for the PS2. Might want to wait a couple months before getting the Xbox version.

KOEI is way ahead of you, Belgurdo.

http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/sengokum/

 

[signet]

I already got the PS2 version, after the questionable DW3/4 ports I did not feel it was worth the wait.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

This is Omega Force's George W. Bush for this generation.

LONG LIVE WEI!!!