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Samurai Warriors 4 Empires Castles Feature Announced
BURLINGAME, Calif. – November 12, in the year of our
Lord 2015 – KOEI TECMO America is pleased to reveal
detailed information on one of the most exciting and
comprehensive new features in Samurai Warriors 4 Empires: the
Castle!
The Castle provides players with a single, intuitive dashboard
for all of their pre and post-battle decisions, and elevates
Samurai Warriors 4 Empires from a tactical action title to a
strategy-focused epic. Essentially a command center, the Castle
is where the player can regulate interior and foreign affairs,
formulate political and military strategy, and utilize their
allied officers’ skills to grow their army’s size, power, and
loyalty.
Starting off as a cluster of small rooms and growing to a
multi-tiered stronghold, players can use the Castle interface to
assign various tasks and Magistrate titles to their most trusted
and valued allied officers. These tasks can vary from
Recruitment to Diplomacy and from Development to Strategy.
Regardless of the direction the player chooses to take, a
careful, skill-based selection of allies will yield better
results, such as more soldiers, more allies, and more gold, etc.
As relationships are pivotal to all Empires games, pairing
allied officers with a friendly disposition will create high
synergy, which will produce faster and better results.
Furthermore, since all officers in Samurai Warriors 4 Empires
are based on historical figures with real personalities,
assigning them to an appropriate position will generate unique
results and trigger specific events!
Aside from allowing the player to manage recruitment, commerce,
provisions, and other domestic and political affairs, the Castle
can also be used to prepare for battle. The Military Magistrate
will analyze the situation and make proposals to aid in battle,
Foreign Affairs Magistrates will suggest alliances and
diplomatic interventions, and Strategists will present the
player with ideas for sabotaging and weakening the enemy. With
their assistance, players can then choose how to charge the
battlefield by considering how large of an army to take along,
how many provisions or gold to invest, and whether a diplomatic
solution is preferable to conflict.
In this way, Samurai Warriors 4 Empires blends the best of the
tactical action gameplay genre with an easy-to-learn, in-depth
strategy system to create the most exciting installment in the
Empires franchise yet!
Samurai Warriors 4 Empires is scheduled for release on March 14,
2016 on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system
(physical and digital), and the PlayStation®3 computer
entertainment system and PlayStation®Vita handheld system
(digital only).