also features two unique NPCs: Katsuie Shibata and Kojiro Sasaki that can be unlocked as unplayable special bodyguards. Starting Characters Yukimura Sanada Mitsuhide Akechi Oichi Ieyasu Tokugawa Mitsunari Ishida NEW Ginchiyo Tachibana NEW Kotaro Fuma NEW Unlockable Characters Keiji Maeda Nobunaga Oda Kenshin Uesugi Okuni Magoichi Saika Shingen Takeda Masamune Date Nō Hanzo Hattori Ranmaru Mori Hideyoshi Toyotomi Tadakatsu Honda Ina Nagamasa Azai Sakon Shima NEW Yoshihiro Shimazu NEW Kanetsugu Naoe NEW Nene NEW Musashi Miyamoto NEW Available in Empires and Xtreme Legends Kojiro Sasaki NEW Katsuie Shibata NEW Only Available in Xtreme Legends Yoshimoto Imagawa Toshiie Maeda NEW Motochika Chosokabe NEW Gracia NEW Removed Characters Kunoichi Kennyo Honganji Goemon Ishikawa Expansions Samurai Warriors 2: Empires Samurai Warriors 2: Empires (戦国無双2: Empires) is an expansion to the original Samurai Warriors 2 and the third Empires expansion by Koei (The first was Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires, and the second was Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires), available for PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, as well as PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in a compilation with the original and Xtreme Legends. The game was first released in Japan on November 16, 2006. Very similar to both Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires and Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires, the game features the strategic and tactical Empire Mode that combines the gameplay of Samurai Warriors and several turn-based strategy elements from Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Empire mode allows the player to select from some of Japan's greatest battles such as the battle of Kawanakajima, the battle of Anegawa, the incident at Honnōji and the battle of Sekigahara. In the New Officer Mode, the options are limited to 13 models with 10 color patterns each, as well as four different voices. In addition, a new feature is added to the mix: the ability to use movesets of certain playable characters. Unlike Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends, the game does not feature new characters for the series. However, Kojirō Sasaki and Katsuie Shibata, who were unplayable special NPCs and bodyguards in Samurai Warriors 2, are now playable characters in Samurai Warriors 2: Empires with special movesets derived from other characters. Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends (戦国無双2: 猛将伝 Sengoku Musou 2: Moushouden) was first released on August 23, 2007, in Japan for the PlayStation 2. It is the fifth Xtreme Legends expansion by Koei, and also the first (and only) Xtreme Legends