For example, Oichi can either summon new soldiers to the battlefield or improve the combat abilities of nearby allies, Yukimura Sanada can either whistle to call his mount to his side or perform a flaming charge, and Ginchiyo Tachibana can either increase the strength of her weapon or summon lightning to stun nearby enemy soldiers.

A returning element from Samurai Warriors is the Survival Mode (Infinite Castle in Sengoku Musō 2).

Playable characters in the game (except for Ranmaru Mori and Okuni) have their own stories.

Correspondingly, since Mitsuhide Akechi and Nobunaga Oda both have endings where they won their historically final battles and survived, their Dream stages have them mopping up their gathered opposition.

The game's goal is to collect the requested amount of gold (depending on the player's settings).

Almost all characters from previous game (including Xtreme Legends additions) return with the exception of Goemon Ishikawa, Kunoichi, and Yoshimoto Imagawa, although the new character Nene seems to be a replacement for Kunoichi due to similarities in combat characteristics and skills.

In the New Officer Mode, the options are limited to 13 models with 10 color patterns each, as well as four different voices.

Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends (戦国無双2: 猛将伝 Sengoku Musō 2: Mōshōden) was first released on August 23, 2007, in Japan for the PlayStation 2.

The expansion introduced new characters to the series, including Toshiie Maeda, Gracia and Motochika Chosokabe.

Yoshimoto Imagawa from Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends returned in the expansion with an updated character design, Katsuie Shibata and Kojirō Sasaki from Samurai Warriors 2: Empires are also playable and have new weapons.

Katsuie Shibata wields two hand axes, while Kojirō Sasaki still carries a nodachi, but can now summon an ex-dimensional sword during battle.

"Import" selected on the main menu will guide the players though a disk switching process.