Samurai Warriors: Katana
Samurai Warriors: Katana is an action video game set in feudal Japan and is based upon the Samurai Warriors series. The game is played with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk attachment, and the action is seen from a…
Samurai Warriors: Katana is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Omega Force, released 20 September 2007 on Wii.
What Samurai Warriors: Katana is
Samurai Warriors: Katana is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2007. It was published by Koei. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Samurai Warriors: Katana is an action video game set in feudal Japan and is based upon the Samurai Warriors series. The game is played with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk attachment, and the action is seen from a first-person viewpoint. In battle, the player character is equipped with one melee weapon (such as a sword or spear) and one ranged weapon (such as a bow and arrow or cannon). The player can freely switch between melee and ranged weapons during combat. Attacks are performed through either pressing the attack button on the Wii Remote to attack single enemies, or motion-based attacks that can damage groups. The game also includes a competitive multiplayer mode for two players. Outside of…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Dynasty Warriors series
Samurai Warriors: Katana is the 23rd of 58 entries we hold in the Dynasty Warriors series. The next entry was Dynasty Warriors 6 in 2008. Its critic score of 67 is almost exactly 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: Katana holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Samurai Warriors: Katana launched on 20 September 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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