When did Samurai Warriors come out?

Samurai Warriors was released on 11 February 2004 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

Samurai Warriors (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Samurai Warriors

Samurai Warriors is the first title in the series of hack and slash video games created by Koei's Omega Force team based loosely around the Sengoku ("Warring States") period of Japanese history and it is a…

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What Samurai Warriors is

Samurai Warriors is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2004. It was published by Koei. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Samurai Warriors is the first title in the series of hack and slash video games created by Koei's Omega Force team based loosely around the Sengoku ("Warring States") period of Japanese history and it is a sister series of the Dynasty Warriors series. In the basic gameplay of Samurai Warriors, the player takes the role of a single officer in battle and must fend off hordes of enemy soldiers and defeat the enemy commander. The player has at their disposal a range of combo attacks and crowd-clearing special moves known as Musou attacks. The variety of attacks available increase as the character levels up and acquires more superior weapons. The game features a total of 15 characters based on…

Description from the publisher · source

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: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Dynasty Warriors series

Samurai Warriors is the fifth of 58 entries we hold in the Dynasty Warriors series. The next entry was Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires in 2004. Its critic score of 72 is 6 points above the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition at 85.

See all 58 Dynasty Warriors games in release order →

How it was received

Samurai Warriors holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Samurai Warriors launched on 11 February 2004, within three weeks of Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen and Ninja Gaiden. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Ninja Gaiden.

Cheats and codes

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