![]() ![]() I’ve been playing the game for the past several days now, but only the single-player mode. Actually accomplishing that goal is another matter entirely. ![]() The goal of Shogun 2 is simple: to establish your clan as the country’s ruling shogunate. And I think we can all agree that samurai armor is the best-looking armor in all of human history. It’s quite fun.ĭeveloped by The Creative Assembly, Total War: Shogun 2 (Sega has switched around the word order-it’s not called Shogun 2: Total War in the vein of Rome: Total War or Empire: Total War- with this release in order to better establish “Total War” as a brand name) takes place during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, which is to say it takes place in the time of the samurai. Gameplay consists of two phases: a turn-based (each turn here lasts one season, bringing the total number of turns per year to four) campaign map à la Sid Meier’s Civilization that sees you scrambling for resources, researching technology down two tech trees (Bushido for warfare-related items and Way of Chi for economic and other non-warfare related items), establishing trade routes, and negotiating diplomatic agreements with your rivals and real-time military clashes between armies and navies that are completely under your control: infantry over here, cavalry over there, missiles in support, etc. You’ve done yourself a disservice if you haven’t played a Total War game in recent years. Will you cover your daimyo in glory, or will your dreams of ruling Japan end in a shameful display? ![]() A tighter, more focused experience all around, Shogun 2 puts you in control of one of nine different clans in 16th century Japan, scheming and warring your way to Kyoto, the home of the ruling shogunate. Make no mistake about it: Total War: Shogun 2, available today at fine retailers, both real and digital, is the Total War experience perfected. ![]()
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