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Samurai Warriors 4: Special Anime Pack

Samurai Warriors 4 is a hack and slash game, and sequel to Samurai Warriors 3. The game was made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series. The game features a character-switching feature, similar to…

21 October 2014

Samurai Warriors 4: Special Anime Pack is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Omega Force, released 21 October 2014 on PlayStation 4.

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What Samurai Warriors 4: Special Anime Pack is

Samurai Warriors 4: Special Anime Pack is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2014. It was published by Koei Tecmo. It is available on PlayStation 4 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Samurai Warriors 4 is a hack and slash game, and sequel to Samurai Warriors 3. The game was made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series. The game features a character-switching feature, similar to the spin-off, Samurai Warriors: Chronicles, with which players can take two characters into battles simultaneously, and freely switch between the two. Two new moves, "Hyper Attacks" and "Rage Mode" are featured in this game: Hyper Attacks is a secondary moveset available to all characters that allows the player to sweep through and clear out crowd of enemies with a dashing animation, although it is useless against enemy officers, as they will either deflect it or are otherwise immune…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

What it launched against

Samurai Warriors 4: Special Anime Pack launched on 21 October 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation and Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition.

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When did Samurai Warriors 4: Special Anime Pack come out?
Samurai Warriors 4: Special Anime Pack was released on 21 October 2014 for PlayStation 4.

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