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Sakura Taisen, Other Characters Added to Project X Zone Cast

This week's issue of Enterbrain's Weekly Famitsu magazine revealed more characters in Project X Zone (pronounced Project Cross Zone), a simulation role-playing game for the Nintendo 3DS system featuring characters from the game companies CAPCOM, Sega, and Namco Bandai Games.

From CAPCOM titles, Morrigan Aensland from the Darkstalkers franchise and Chun-Li from the Street Fighter series will appear in the game. Erica Fontaine and Gemini Sunrise from Sega's Sakura Taisen series will also be included in the game, as will Bruno Delinger from Dynamite Deka (Die Hard Arcade in English-speaking regions). Valkyrie from Namco's Valkyrie no Densetsu was also revealed as a character in the scans.

The magazine and the Famitsu video game news website already revealed that characters from Biohazard Revelations (Resident Evil Revelations), the Devil May Cry franchise, the Dead Rising series, the Darkstalkers franchise, the Street Fighter franchise, the Rockman X (Mega Man X) series, the Virtua Fighter series, Resonance of Fate (End of Eternity), God Eater, Shining Force EXA, Tales of Vesperia, the Tekken series, the .hack series, the Xenosaga series, Valkyria Chronicles 3, the Sakura Wars series, Space Channel 5, and Super Robot Wars Original Generation will appear in Project X Zone.

Kensuke Tsukanaka will produce the game. Project X Zone is slated for a 2012 release.

[Via Hachima Kikō]