Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends is the first standalone expansion of the 2009 title Samurai Warriors 3. The game introduces two new modes, the "Original Career" mode which allows the opportunity to create…
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Omega Force, released 10 February 2011 on Wii.
What Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends is
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2011. It was published by Koei Tecmo. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends is the first standalone expansion of the 2009 title Samurai Warriors 3. The game introduces two new modes, the "Original Career" mode which allows the opportunity to create original scenarios by completing missions and acquiring gold to increase the player's abilities and strength, as well as the series staple "Challenge" mode that has three challenges of varying objectives. It also adds new weapons, items, two new difficulty levels ("Novice" and "Hell") and stories for characters that did not have them in the original. The game also has online functionality which was not possible in the original.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Dynasty Warriors series
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends is the 30th of 58 entries we hold in the Dynasty Warriors series. The next entry was Samurai Warriors: Chronicles in 2011. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points above the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition at 85.
How it was received
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends launched on 10 February 2011, within three weeks of Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm, Killzone 3 and Beyond Good & Evil HD. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm, Killzone 3, Beyond Good & Evil HD.
Official trailer
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