Confirmed: One Piece coming exclusively to the PS3

[sunnygrg]

Please keep all One Piece Chapter discussions in this thread.

Game has been officially confirmed and is exclusive to the PS3:

Namco Bandai Games Japan, today, released an official press release for One Piece: Kaizoku Musou (One Piece: Pirate Warriors). We actually won’t post it here because it’s in Japanese, but you can head on over to Yahoo! Japan to check it out.

The press release starts off by announcing the game will published by Namco Bandai Games and developed by Tecmo Koei’s Omega Force team. It continues on to mention One Piece: Kaizoku Musou will be a PlayStation 3 exclusive game and gives a few sentences on how One Piece began in Shonen Jump as well as Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei’s history in making video games.

It’s fairly standard press release type information for a new video game announcement. However, the news us fans may be most excited about is the last sentence. From our understanding of an elementary translation of Japanese, the game will be a combination of experience from Namco Bandai’s traditional RPG fighting games and Tecmo Koei’s Warriors games with the goal of creating a work that expands the One Piece fan base. In other words, a One Piece game that combines fighting, RPG, and hack-and-slash action adventure into one! Again, this is from our understanding so it may very well be 100% wrong, and just our wishful biases and desires kicking in. The press release may actually just simply be saying that the two companies are combining their experience of creating video games in order to make a great One Piece game.

Whatever the case, the official label is One Piece: Kaizoku Musou is an action game. Unsurprisingly (and probably unfortunately for our wishful desires), Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei’s other Dynasty Warrior-related games carry the same label.

More, official information along with a video is expected to be released at the 2011 Tokyo Game Show on September 17-18.

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[ShinobiHotsuma]

Oh please oh please oh please oh please let this be true I don't care if they don't give it to us from the beginning of the series we can always go back. Just hope it's not a fighter I love fighters but DBZ got me tired of anime fighters something like FMA would be awesome.

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[BreadSkin]

So we have Naruto, a Bleach game, and now a One Piece game? Now we just need a Reborn game, and our collection's complete .

[Figma]

If this happens its a must buy!

[Batumba]

I was about to post the same thing. Awesome stuff. Can't wait to finally see it happen. It took them long enough. Hopefully they won't cut out a huge shitload of characters as the Gigant Battle games do.

[PockyNinja]

If it is released then it'll definitely be a first day/pre order for me and definitely collectors if there is one.

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by BreadSkin

So we have Naruto, a Bleach game, and now a One Piece game? Now we just need a Reborn game, and our collection's complete .

Well what we need now is a Bleach fighter, a Bleach hack and slash didn't quite do it for me lol. What would really make my collection happy is a PS3 console release of a Yu-Gi-Oh! game ... I would forever be happy (for that month).

[Syaoran369]

Oh happy day! I hope this happens!
But by the name of it its for sure going to be similar to Dynasty Warriors (like the gundam version) which will be hack and slash for sure but I don't mind as long as there is a OP game

[Shuffle]

If this is true, I hope it at least reaches America since most of the Nintendo One Piece games only go as far as to Europe even though I believe they use the Funimation voice actors for the English dub.

[Shuffle]

Originally Posted by Syaoran369

Oh happy day! I hope this happens!
But by the name of it its for sure going to be similar to Dynasty Warriors (like the gundam version) which will be hack and slash for sure but I don't mind as long as there is a OP game

Well not necessarily since like look at Shin Koihime Musou. The gameplay is nothing like Dynasty Warriors(but that's more because Koei is not involved with that series).

Also the Fist of the North Star game which is like another anime-based spin-off for the Dynasty Warriors series which is more like a beat 'em up game.

So it's really anyone's guess on what the gameplay will be like until we get confirmation.