Sengoku Basara

Sengoku Basara (July 21) by Capcom

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Videogame for Playstation 2

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Official Site - http://www.capcom.co.jp/sengoku/

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Visually similar to the Dynasty Warriors Series, according to the trailers, Sengoku Basara takes place during the Sengoku Period, or Warring States Period, during which Japan was split into many minor states battling over power and land. The game will feature two historical warlords as the main characters: Yukimura Sanada and Masamune Date.

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Sengoku Basara - Sengoku

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The game will feature voice actors from the acclaimed Soul Caliber Series as well as the famous Final Fantasy X.

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• Producer - Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Resident Evil 4)
• Character Design - Makoto Tsuchibayashi (Devil May Cry)
• Masamune Date - Kazuya Nakai (InuYasha, Gundam Seed, Final Fantasy X, Samurai Champloo)
• Yukimura Sanada - Souichirou Hoshi (Soul Caliber, Gundam Seed)
• Nobunaga Oda - Norio Wakamoto (King of Fighters, Cowboy Bebop, Dragonball Z, X-Men)
• Nouhime - Yurika Hino
• Kenshin Uesugi - Romi Park
• Shingen Takeda - Tesshou Genda (Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Record of Lodoss War)
• Itsuki - Tomoko Kawakami (Angelic Layer, InuYasha, Card Captor Sakura, Fushigi Yuugi)
• Zabii (Xavi, short for Xavier) - Kouzou Shioya
• Ranmaru Mori - Hiroki Shimowada
• Mitsuhide Akechi - Shou Hayami (Dragon Ball Z, Trigun, Record of Lodoss War)
• Kasuga - Natsuko Kuwatani (Getbackers)
• Toshiie Maeda - Tomohiro Tsuboi
• Matsu - Yuuko Kaida
• Sasuke Sarutobi - Takehito Koyasu (Initial D, Gundam Seed, Gundam Wing, Excel Saga)
• Theme song (Crosswise) by T.M. Revolution (http://www.tm-revolution.com/)

An interview from www.IGN.com with Capcom's Hiroyuki Kobayashi:

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Kobayashi: In Japan, Devil Kings is called Sengoku Basara, and it focuses on Japanese history in the same sense that Dynasty Warriors focuses on Chinese history. So it's similar in that sense, but with a Capcom style, a Capcom flair to it. We took the concept, and said, "What can we do to differentiate this to make this different from the Dynasty Warriors games?" And we decided the secret maybe lay in some other games Capcom has done. We said, "Let's give the characters a kind of Devil May Cry flair -- some really cool moves, like the kind of things you might see in Devil May Cry. Let's the characters and make them all vastly and distinctly different from one another, like Street Fighter II." That's the Japanese version. Then, we said, "Okay, let's release it in North America -- what can we do to make it different again?" So we said, "Okay, we'll make it dark." Call it Devil Kings. The main character sold his soul to the devil. We'll darken up the background, give more moves, more ability to power your character up, and things like that for the American market.

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IGN: Plus it's not historically accurate?

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Kobayashi: The Japanese version of the game is based on Japanese history. There are some fantasy elements that didn't actually happen, of course, but enough of it is there. With the U.S. version, we've taken that element out entirely. Some of the backgrounds may retain that eastern flair. Many of them don't and are brand new; many of the enemies are brand new; and it's no longer based around the idea of feudal Japan at all. That part of the game has now been changed to be darker, devilish.

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