Indeed an awsome new character to the story but still has ties to the series with the new characters and worth buying...
The gameplay of this game was awsome aswell and had to give props to capcom for adding all the awsome things u could do in this game. I really thought they improved this game with everything and made it just how most of us would have wanted it. Let me just say it like this, if u are into samurai games, this game is the best one out there now and is worth buying, u will not be disappointed and u can play more then 60 hours of gameplay and the story just draws u in. Very good game and hope they continue the series with the ps3 in the next gen.