Samurai Warriors: KATANA

Samurai Warriors (much like Dynasty Warriors, also by KOEI) has always split opinion like a very sharp, er, Katana. There are quite a number of devout fans of the series but there are many more that can’t understand how the repetitive gameplay could be appreciated by anybody that claims to enjoy videogames. However with a move away from the traditional gameplay and into a new first-person, mainly on-rails slash-em-up (which actually has more in common with light-gun games than the Samurai Warriors or Dynasty Warriors series we know), SW:K, as it shall henceforth be called, had the chance to change all that and provide an experience that would appeal to a much larger audience. However what we have ended up with is a game that even devout fans of the series will find hard to defend.

From visuals that look like an early PS2 release at best, to voice-over work so bad that I simply can

Our rating

3/10