One Piece: Pirate Warriors Statistics Japanese Name: ワンピース海賊無双 Romanized Name: Wan Pīsu: Kaizoku Musō Developer(s): Tecmo Koei; Omega Force Publisher(s): Namco Bandai Release(s) (JP) March 1, 2012;

(EU) September 21, 2012;

(USA) September 25, 2012 Platform(s): Playstation 3 Genre: Action

is arelated video game released in Japan on March 1, 2012, in Europe on September 21, 2012, and in South America on September 28, 2012 for the Sony PlayStation 3 with Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei teaming up to create it and Omega Force, a subsidiary of Tecmo Koei, developing it. The game takes place from the East Blue Saga until the Return to Sabaody Arc

The title is made with the hopes of creating the "ultimate game", as developers claim that it personifies the "comrades" and Warriors themes in a grand adventure. This game is in honor of One Piece's 15th anniversary, starting back in 1997.

While there was no announcement for the game's release outside of Japan, the name "One Piece: Pirate Warriors" had been copyrighted in America and Europe on 2/1/2012.[1] Namco Bandai confirmed that the game would heading overseas via their conference they had on 4/11/2012. The game was released on September 25, 2012.[2] The game was released on a disc in Europe but was released digital in North America.[3] This is the first One Piece game to be released in North America without an English dub. It featured Japanese audio with English subtitles.[4]

The sequel, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2, was developed by Namco Bandai within a year after the first game's release, and came out in Japan on March 20, 2013. The EU and NA versions later came out on August 30 and September 3 of the same year.

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Characters Edit

Playable characters can be used at any point in the game, support characters assist the player through a stage, enemies are bosses and cameo characters are featured exclusively in an opening movie or any other non-gameplay situation.

Playable Edit

Support Edit

Enemies Edit

Some of the strongest common enemies, who act as mini-bosses, resemble some of the characters from the series, despite deploying completely different abilities:

Cameos Edit

Locations Edit

Merchandise Edit

Aside from One Piece: Kaizoku Musou (MRSP: 8190 yen), there was a One Piece: Kaizoku Musou Treasure Box and a One Piece: Kaizoku Musou Gold Edition Bundle released. The Treasure Box contains the game itself, a guide book, a music CD with the game’s soundtrack, and collectible pins. There is also a serial code to download nine custom themes featuring individual members of the Straw Hats. The MRSP is 12390 yen.[14]

The Gold Edition bundle contains a golden 320 GB PS3 with Luffy and the Kaizoku Musou logo on it as well as a golden DualShock3 controller. The MRSP is 38,170 yen.[15]

For the initial release of the game, 7-11 has sponsored a limited color figure release of Luffy from Super Styling Ambitious Might.



Gallery Edit

Playable Characters Edit

Enemies Edit

Trivia Edit

In the credits Kizaru's seiyuu, Unshou Ishizuka's name is mistranslated as Unshou Ishiduka .

. The Straw Hats' Kimono DLC costumes (excluding Usopp, Franky, and Brook) are manga cover references to Chapter 310, Chapter 373, and Chapter 526.

References Edit

↑ http://www.saiyanisland.com/2012/02/namco-bandai-trademarks-pirate-warriors-with-us/ ↑ http://www.siliconera.com/2012/04/11/one-piece-pirate-warriors-stretching-to-north-america/ ↑ http://www.facebook.com/NamcoBandai/posts/371639456211446 ↑ https://twitter.com/shonenjump/status/210122830631796737 ↑ 5.0 5.1 December 9th 2011, Scan confirming Zoro and Sanji as playable characters ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 December 26th 2011, Jump Festa 2011 trailer features Sanji with a health bar at 1:27 and a lot of East Blue Saga content ↑ 7.0 7.1 Scan confirming Chopper and Drum Island arc ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Scan confirming Brook, Ace, Hancock and Whitebeard ↑ Pic confirming Hachi ↑ Game's scans confirming some of the boss characters ↑ Scan confirming Crocodile, Wapol, Kaku and Lucci as bosses ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Scan confirming Aokiji, Magellan and boss mode ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Scan confirming the Admirals, Sentoumaru, Blackbeard and Kuma as bosses ↑ December 12th 2011, Treasure Box, picture of Luffy's theme included ↑ December 15th 2011, Gold Edition, picture of exclusive theme featuring the nine crew members