Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes and Ghost Trick announced for North America

Capcom announced two new games at the Tokyo Game show this week that will be coming to North America and Europe in 2010. The new Capcom titles are Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes and Ghost Trick (working title for North America and Europe) - both are being displayed to the Japanese gaming public for the first time. Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes, the latest in Capcom’s samurai action series, makes it first appearance on both the PlayStation 3 and Wii.

Set during a tumultuous period of Japanese history, Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes allows players to take up the swords of more than a dozen samurai warriors in huge battles against hundreds of opponents. Players will be able to unlock playable characters, as well as supporting generals who will make it easier to command and lead armies with the ultimate goal of re-writing history to rule all of 16th century Japan. The action is fast-paced and stylish, taking combat cues from producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi’s other big series, Devil May Cry. The game’s main campaign will be the same on both gaming platforms, with the addition of online co-op for the PlayStation 3.

Ghost Trick is a new IP that combines mystery, logic puzzles and the supernatural into a new experience on Nintendo DS. Part adventure game, part puzzle game, Ghost Trick’s gameplay will challenge player’s brains and offer what Capcom calls a distinctive art style and character designs courtesy of members of Capcom’s Ace Attorney series. In Ghost Trick, players become Sissel, an amnesiac ghost who must use his ghostly powers to protect the lives of several people while attempting to uncover the secrets behind his own untimely demise. Sissel can “possess” items within the world, such as flicking a switch to shock an unwary assassin or floating a bike through the air to scare mortals and even rewind time by four minutes to prevent further deaths.

Both games will be released at a date to be announced sometime in 2010.