Koei Tecmo announced Samurai Warriors 5 – review addiction

Publisher Koei Tecmo officially announced a new part of the famous series Samurai warriors… Over musou fighter Samurai warriors 5 studio works Omega force, and the game will be released in the West on July 27, 2023. It will be available on PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series for backward compatibility.

In the official trailer, we are introduced to the main characters of the next confrontation: Nobunaga Oda and Mitsuhide Akechi. The events unfolding in the Sengoku period after the Onin Troubles, we will see through the eyes of these two real outstanding military leaders.

Japanese history scholars are well aware that it was Akechi’s betrayal that ended Oda’s mission to overthrow the shogunate and unite the country. What exactly made the famous samurai go against his overlord, we will probably find out in the game.

But Oda and Akechi will not be the only heroes of Samurai Warriors 5. In the game we will meet 27 playable samurai, some of them are familiar to us from the previous parts of the series.

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