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Project X Zone 2 Videos Reveal Xenosaga, Fire Emblem Characters & Western Dates (Updated)

The official website of Bandai Namco Entertainment, SEGA, and CAPCOM's Project X Zone 2: Brave New World crossover game began streaming a new trailer on Saturday revealing new characters from Bandai Namco Entertainment and Monolith Soft's Xenosaga and Xenoblade Chronicles games, as well as Nintendo and Intelligent Systems' Fire Emblem Awakening game.

The video introduces the character KOS-MOS (voiced by Mariko Suzuki) from Xenosaga, and Fiora (Eri Nakao) from Xenoblade Chronicles. It also introduces Chrom (Tomokazu Sugita) and Lucina (Yū Kobayashi) from Fire Emblem Awakening.

Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe also began streaming an English version of the game's Tokyo Game Show 2015 special video. The video previews the game's various characters and franchises, including recently revealed characters from Resonance of Fate, and Segata Sanshiro characters.

Bandai Namco Entertainment describes the game:

Developed by Monolith Software Inc, Project X Zone 2 gives gamers the opportunity to play as their favorite characters from a multitude of franchises including the “Tekken” series, Tales of Vesperia, and “.hack//” series from Bandai Namco; the “Resident Evil” series, “Devil May Cry” series, and “Megaman X” series from CAPCOM as well as Yakuza: Dead Souls, the “Sakura Wars” series, and “Virtua Fighter” series from Sega, with many others to be revealed. Players will form teams of characters hailing from these classic series' and engage enemies through strategic turn-based battles.

Similar to the first game, the sequel features characters from various Bandai Namco Entertainment, Sega, and CAPCOM franchises. Monolith Software Inc. is developing the game, which will allow players to "maneuver characters into position and perform strategic attacks using different combinations in real time."

marina will perform both the opening theme "Sekai wa Hitotsu no Budai" and the ending theme "Tsuki Akari no Curtain Call." Yūzō Koshiro composed the songs and Sōichirō Morizumi wrote the lyrics.

The strategy role-playing game will ship in Japan on November 12, and will ship in North America on February 16, and in Europe on February 19.

The first Project X Zone Nintendo 3DS simulation role-playing game featured more than 50 playable characters from 29 CAPCOM, Sega, and Namco Bandai Games franchises. Franchises featured in the game included Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Vampire (Darkstalkers), Street Fighter, Mega Man, Virtua Fighter, Shining Force EXA, Tales of Vesperia, Tekken, .hack, Xenosaga, Valkyria Chronicles, Sakura Wars, Space Channel 5, Dynamite Deka (Die Hard Arcade), Resonance of Fate, God Eater, and Super Robot Wars Original Generation, among others.

The game shipped in Japan in October 2012, in North America in June 2013, and in Europe in July 2013.

Update: Updated with English version of the character announcement video.

[Via Gematsu]