Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce coming to Xbox 360, PS3

KOEI announced that it plans to bring Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on February 16, 2010. Before the snobs start crying about yet another Dynasty Warriors game, let’s make with the details. The Strikeforce vein in the series takes place in a mystical version of ancient China where warriors possess the power of Fury. This power gives them superhuman strength, lightning fast speed and the ability to fly. Taking the role of one of the 40 playable characters, players can take on single-player scenarios or up to four friends can go online to launch raids as a team or battle it out competitively.

Using voice or text chat to coordinate assaults, players go on campaigns to infiltrate heavily-armed enemy strongholds, clash with armies comprised of thousands of soldiers, or slay mythical, massive beasts like dragons. In single-player mode, players have the option to choose and command up to three AI-controlled officers to join them.

Earlier this year at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, producer Kenichi Ogasawara of Omega Force took to the stage with Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi, producer of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 to reveal details about a crossover within Strikeforce. As part of their collaboration, characters from TECMO’s Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 will appear exclusively in Strikeforce for PS3, while characters from KOEI’s Warriors Orochi 2 will make guest appearances in Strikeforce for Xbox 360. By completing guest character challenges, players can win the right to use that guest character’s signature weapon in combat.

Look for the game in February 2010.

PSP Warriors Orochi 2 gold, in stores next month

KOEI’s Warriors Orochi 2 for PSP has reached gold status and is scheduled to ship on August 25th. The PSP version of the game comes with exclusive content including new playable characters, new scenarios, and a Japanese voice option. Pre-order for the game are still available now from Amazon, Best Buy, Game Crazy, GameFly, and GameStop.

KOEI has also launched two sites for the game - there’s the official product site, and a new minisite designed to please the company’s legions of hardcore fans. You can visit by visiting koei.com/wo2dedicated or koei.com/wo2psp.

Warriors Orochi 2 for PSP offers a new series of battles against the Serpent King Orochi, who has kidnapped history’s greatest warriors in a scheme to test his might. The heroes eventually defeated Orochi and his menacing army. Now the slain Orochi lies in the netherworld, and a mysterious alliance is hatching a plan to resurrect him.

The game also offers 96 characters, four different storylines, Dream, VS and Survival, as well as “Tag Team”-style matches that pit fighters in head-to-head arena combat.

Look for the game in stores in the latter half of August.

Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires DLC released

KOEI has delivered, as promised, some new free content for its tactical strategy action game, Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires. Available via Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation Network, this week’s free content pack for the game is completely free and contains new sets of armor that can be used to create characters within the game’s Edit Mode. the armor sets include the Desert armor set (for men), Paladin armor set (for women), Lion armor set (for men), and Shaman armor set (for women).

The next set of add-on music content arrives on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation Network on July 23, followed by four additional armor sets on July 30.

Warriors Orochi 2 for PSP in August

KOEI announced Warriors Orochi 2, a fantasy themed tactical strategy action game the combines the greatest fighters from Japan and China from the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series, is coming to PSP on August 25, 2009. Warriors Orochi 2 features four different storylines starring characters KOEI’s popular game series, along with includes three new game modes Dream, VS and Survival, as well as Tag Team-style matches that pit fighters in head-to-head arena combat.

The game boasts a total of 96 playable characters from the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors including the massive boar-like Gyuki and the faceless Dodomeki. New playable characters not found in the original console release include the graceful San Zang and the warrior-monk Benkei. New features exclusive to the PSP system also include: 2-Player VS mode plus Co-op play in Story, Free and Dream modes, 12 new scenarios in Dream mode, and a Japanese and English voice option.

Consumers can pre-order the game now from Amazon.com, GameFly, and GameStop.

Playing dress up in Dynasty Warrior 6: Empires

KOEI has released some free downloadable content for its decidedly strategy heavy action game, Dynasty Warrior 6: Empires on both PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace. While the content is free, i’m not sure that gamers will be jumping out of their seats in excitement because this new content is more cosmetic than anything else. Nonetheless it is free to download and use so don’t bitch and moan too much.

Starting this week, KOEI will begin offering new character armor sets for the game’s Edit mode, plus additional music tracks. This week’s downloadable content sets include:

Kempo Armor Set (for men)

Artemis Armor Set (for women)

Royal Armor Set (for men)

Queen Armor Set (for women)

Additional BGM Track Pack #1

More Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce DLC released

KOEI has released new add-on missions for DYNASTY WARRIORS: Strikeforce. The new missions are available exclusively on PlayStation Network. Each month a new Quest Pack will be available. This month’s Quest Pack includes all of the previously released add-on content plus five new missions:

Yellow Turban Fortress X - Return to the Yellow Turbans’ fortress to finish the fight! (Difficulty: 4)

Submerged Castle - Face the mighty Lu Bu and gain rare materials! (Difficulty: 4)

Battle of Bo Wan Po X - Return to Bo Wan Po to finish the fight! (Difficulty: 5)

Chi Bi vs Zhou Yu - Return to Chi Bi to finish the fight against Zhou Yu! (Difficulty: 7)

Look for it on PSN now.

Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires in stores this week

KOEI has released Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires for the Xbox 360 and PS3 to North American retail outlets this week. This year’s strategy themed action game set in the latest version of the Dynasty Warriors universe offers all the characters from DW6, along with a new Edit mode that allows players to create their own characters. The character editing system offers options to customize a warrior’s gender, build, skin tone, facial features, voice, clothing, weapon and more. KOEI also revealed that, starting this July, gamers will be able to download new character customization options and music tracks from Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 and from PlayStation Network.

More details about the game can be found at www.koei.com/dw6e.