The first thing you notice (see the above video) is the weather effects. Like all Total War games, you alternate between Risk-style campaign maps-the whole of Japan, with the exception of Hokkaido (where at the time there wasn’t as much going on military-wise)-and full-on army vs. You’d hear wishy-washy answers like, “Oh, I played it for a little bit here and there.” Lies! You people don’t know what it’s like to try to simultaneously fight the Mameleukes, the Ottoman Turks, the Bedouins, and the British-my God, the British!-with a flimsy, ill-supplied French army!Īs the name implies, Shogun 2: Total War takes places in Japan, specifically during the Edo period, the period right before the country was forced to rapidly modernize (read: westernize) due to various outside pressures. (During the demo, Russell asked the other folks present if they’d ever played a Total War game before. I suppose I’m a veteran, having played enough of Napoleon and Empire (along with a bit Rome, if for no other reason than to command an army of war elephants) to know a thing or two about the game. The goal for Shogun 2, as Russell explained to me, was to simultaneously make the game easier to play for people new to Total War, and to make the game harder to master for Total War veterans.
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