Samurai Warriors 5 adds Takakage Kobayakawa, Hisahide Matsunaga, Kenshin Uesugi, Shingen Takeda, and Motonari Mori

Takakage Kobayakawa, Hisahide Matsunaga, Kenshin Uesugi, Shingen Takeda, and Motonari Mori will be playable characters in Samurai Warriors 5, publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force announced.

Here is a look at each character:

Takakage Kobayakawa (voiced by Hiroshi Okamoto)

Hisahide Matsunaga (voiced by Kouji Ishii)

Kenshin Uesugi (voiced by Kazuyuki Okitsu)

Shingen Takeda (voiced by Kenji Hamada)

Motonari Mori (voiced by Hideo Ishikawa)

Samurai Warriors 5 will feature a total of 27 playable characters, all of which were chosen based on the story. The full list of currently confirmed playable characters is as follows:

• Hanbei Takenaka
• Hideyoshi Hashiba
• Hisahide Matsunaga
• Ieyasu Tokugawa
• Kagetora Nagao
• Kanbei Kuroda
• Katsuie Shibata
• Kazuuji Nakamura
• Nagamasa Azai
• Mitsuhide Akechi
• Mitsuki
• Motonari Mori
• No
• Nobunaga Oda
• Oichi
• Sena
• Shikanosuke Yamanaka
• Shingen Takeda
• Tadakatsu Honda
• Takakage Kobayakawa
• Toshiie Maeda
• Toshimitsu Saito
• Yoshimoto Imagawa

Samurai Warriors 5 is due out for PlayStation 4 and Switch on June 24 in Japan, followed by PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch in the west and PC via Steam worldwide on July 27.

Thanks, Famitsu.