Samurai Warriors 3

Samurai Warriors 3 (戦国無双3, Sengoku Musou 3) is a recently announced sequel in the Samurai Warriors franchise that has so far been announced as a Wii exclusive. Like Dynasty Warriors 6, the game will completely revive the series. Character designs and animations will be different than before to create a "refreshing action game". To celebrate the console move, Nintendo staff who worked on Nazo no Murasamejō will also assist in development. There will also be a Nazo no Murasamejō themed stage or mode in the game.

The Classic Controller set will have goods usually made for Treasure Box releases, such as the game's soundtrack and a figurine of one of the characters (Kaihime).

Gameplay
A new element is the Rengi gauge, said to allow players to attack in continuous combo chains. New attacks unfold and become more powerful as the gauge is stocked in levels. It's currently unknown if it's the same as the Renbu gauge.

The previous character stories will be replaced with a different story system, which is separated into three phases. It essentially follows events before the main wars in the time era which features Shingen and Kenshin, the three unifiers' actions for unification, and the Sekigahara Campaign.

Unlike Samurai Warriors: Katana, players can use either the Wii controllers or the Gamecube controllers with this title.

Characters
In a recent press release, 35 characters are said to appear in the game. In a teaser trailer shown at TGS 2008, four shadowy characters were shown, with many holding the belief that they were new characters. Nobunaga Oda also appeared at the end in his SW2 costume. The teaser can be viewed here.

Kunoichi, who wasn't included in Samurai Warriors 2, has been hinted by her former voice actor to appear. In her online resume, the voice actor lists her role as Kunoichi in Samurai Warriors 3. However, this has not yet been confirmed by KOEI, so the information is not considered completely accurate.

Returning

 * Yukimura Sanada
 * Masamune Date
 * Nobunaga Oda
 * Mitsunari Ishida
 * Kanetsugu Naoe
 * Tadakatsu Honda

Shingen Takeda, Kenshin Uesugi, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyasu Tokugawa have also been mentioned but it's not yet certain if they will be returning playable characters.

New

 * Kiyomasa Kato
 * Kaihime
 * Kanbei Kuroda

Image Songs
Title is not known yet but Gackt will perform it.