Total war: Shogun 2, or commonly referred to as Shogun 2, is a turn based strategy gamed developed by The Creative Assembly. The game builds on the success of The Creative Assembly’s previous games such as Empire: Total War, Medieval 2: Total war and Rome Total War, but adds many new features. In order to complete the campaign, you must lead your clan to dominance in 16th century Japan, in a period known as the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring Kingdoms). This was a turbulent time in Japanese history and there was full scale war through much of the country. As the commander of your clan, you must win glorious battles on land and at sea, engage in diplomacy and use agents in your service in order to dominate japan, capture Kyoto and throw down the weak Shogun and rise as the military leader of all Japan.
The Artificial intelligence featured in this game is a massive improvement upon Total War games of old, and the new graphics look fantastic and allow you to immerse yourself into this epic period. Many new features have been implemented into this games and some include the rotatable campaign map, new RPG skills and experience system for your generals and troops, multi-stage sieges with most commonly more than one set of walls protecting a city and new hero units to lead your men in battle and cut a bloody swath through the enemy.
The units that are recruitable add to the ability to immerse yourself in the game as you can recruit the cheap and numerous, but weak Ashigaru(peasant) units, ferocious and skilful Samurai warriors and the dedicated warrior-monks of Japan. Religion also is re-introduced in Shogun 2, with the chance to convert your clan to Christianity, in order to achieve the bonus’s that come with trade from the Nan ban(Europeans) such as improved ships and gunpowder units to frighten your enemy and mow them down with bullets.
Playable Factions:
Another new feature introduced in Shogun 2 is the addition of bonuses to the different clans in the game. These bonus’ are quite historical and reflect the differfeiong skills of each clan in the game. Below is a list of all the factions playable in Shogun 2 and their bonuses they are entitled to.
Screenies: Credit for photo's to afty, who got them off sega..
By Awesome Eagle
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Wars not make one great- Yoda
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