Samurai Warriors 3

Samurai Warriors 3 (戦国無双3, Sengoku Musou 3) is a recently announced sequel in the Samurai Warriors franchise slated to be released at the end of December 2009 in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom (according to IGN). So far, it has only been announced as a Wii exclusive. Like Dynasty Warriors 6, the game will completely revive the series. Character designs and actions will be different than before.

To celebrate the console move, Nintendo staff who worked on Nazo no Murasamejō will also assist in development.

Gameplay
A new element is the Rengi gauge, said to allow players to attack in continuous combo chains. It's currently unknown if it's the same as the Renbu guage.

The previous character stories will be replaced with a different story system, which is separated into three phases. It essentially follows the time era from the beginning, middle, and the end.

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, 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
 * Kanetsugu Naoe
 * Mitsunari Ishida

New

 * Kiyomasa Kato
 * Kaihime
 * Kanbei Kuroda

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