One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
Official Japanese cover art for the PlayStation 4 version of the game.
Developer(s)	Omega Force
Publisher(s)	Bandai Namco Entertainment
Series	One Piece
Platform(s)	PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch
Release	JP: March 26, 2015 NA: August 25, 2015 EU: August 28, 2015 Nintendo Switch (Deluxe Edition) JP: December 21, 2017 EU: May 11, 2018 NA: May 10, 2018
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 is an action video game, developed by Omega Force and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Microsoft Windows. The game is the sequel to One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2, released in Japan on March 26, 2015 and subsequently in Western territories on August 25, 2015. This is the last One Piece video game released for PlayStation 3. An enhanced port for the Nintendo Switch was released in December 2017.

The gameplay is similar to the first two installments. A new feature is the Kizuna Rush, which summons another character alongside the player in battle to perform a combination attack. Up to four players can be summoned at once this way, with the finishing attacks becoming more powerful as more characters join.

During battle, one of the NPC support characters (known as Crew in the game) may become a Hero, which causes the Kizuna Gauge of the support character who is a hero to fill up more easily. Maxing out this support character's Kizuna Level and filling their Kizuna Gauge, will unleash their Hero Power. Each character (Playable & Support) have their own Hero Powers which produce different effects, such as causing a barrage (such as Fujitora causing a barrage of meteors, Sakazuki unleashing a barrage magma, or Garp throwing a barrage of Cannonballs) that deals out damage to every enemy on a stage, restoring health of allied units (Chopper & Sanji's hero power), reducing the enemy units attack power by intimidating them (Zoro and Luffy's Hero Power), or inspiring allied units increasing their combat effectiveness and attack strength. However tough enemies can also unleash their Hero Power which causes a stunned Gauge to appear over their head and when the gauge reaches 0 the enemy will be stunned causing their Hero Power to end.

Some characters like Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji can use a special state called an Overdrive which allow them to use their signature power-up states like Gear Second, Sogeking or Diable Jambe respectively when Kizuna Rush is activated. However these Overdrives are not automatically available and require specific Coins to unlock them. Also for most of the Logia users in the game, their Logia state acts as their Overdrive and unlike characters Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji these Overdrives do not need to be unlocked using Coins.