Nobunaga's Ambition celebrates 40th anniversary with new western release in July

Slightly more ambitious

Not many video game series reach the 40-year mark, but that’s the anniversary Nobunaga’s Ambition celebrates this year. The historical grand strategy series is celebrating with the announcement of a new western release,Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening, which will launch this July. You’ll find the first trailer below.

As per usual, Awakening is a grand strategy game set in the Warring States period of Japan, during which clans battled to unify the fractured country. It’s a bit like Total War, in that you build defenses and manage economy and diplomacy on a zoomed out map of the nation, then jump into separate battlefields when it’s time to pit your thousands of tiny men against a rival clan’s equivalents.

Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening launched in Japan under the name Nobunaga’s Ambition: Shinsei in July last year. Aside from a full translation, the western release has apparently been polished and further expanded with what Koei Tecmo call the “Power-up Kit”.