Way of the Samurai 3
Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? You must wield the sword of a mysterious lone samurai during Japan's turbulent Sengoku era, in one of the most…
Way of the Samurai 3 is an adventure developed by ACQUIRE Corp., released 13 November 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Way of the Samurai 3 is
Way of the Samurai 3 is an adventure game developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and released in 2008. It was published by Agetec. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gamebryo.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? You must wield the sword of a mysterious lone samurai during Japan's turbulent Sengoku era, in one of the most atmospheric action RPGs ever created. Explore the villages, body-strewn battlefields, bandit fortresses, immense castles and local town of Amana, in an open world bustling with a rich cast of colourful characters that you can help, ignore or victimise.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Way of the Samurai 3 holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.13GHz Intel Core2 Duo or equivalent, 1 GB RAM and DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 512Mb RAM and support for v3 shaders. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Way of the Samurai 3 launched on 13 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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All media
Dlc
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