About the game
Description
The ancient storied battlefield lies before you. At your command are 100,000 troops including archers, infantry, riflemen, and the powerful cavalry. Kessenis a real time strategy game that gives players strategic command and control over huge armies during epic battle sequences from the Warring States period of seventeenth century Japan. Key features include more than 100 movie segments, battlefields with full 3D terrain, separate animation routines for every character, and three different camera views. Known best because it is the very first PlayStation 2 game to ship using the DVD format.
Original IGDB description.
- Genre
- Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
- Release
- March 4, 2000
- Developer
- Koei
- Publisher
- Koei, Electronic Arts
- Series
- Kessen
- Game modes
- Single player
- Length (HowLongToBeat)
- Main story: 9.5 h · Main + extras: 16.5 h
Critic and user scores
- 51/100 on IGDB · 7 ratings
- 75/100 on Metacritic
Scores published by IGDB and Metacritic (via RAWG). They are not Games Library ratings.
Game data: IGDB.
What it's worth
Market value
€5.55
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