That, of course, is easier said than done, and players will do so in the classic Total War fashion, by managing their cities and provinces turn-by-turn, and taking to the battlefield in real time. Set once more in that most well-known period of Japanese history, the sengoku jidai (“warring states era”), Shogun 2 stuffs you into the lacquered armor of a daimyo, head of one of the many feudal clans of sengoku-era Japan, struggling for dominion and to unite the nation under the banner of the shogunate. It’s somewhat ironic then, that it took a return to the series’ roots in Sengoku-era Japan to produce one of the most refined, stylish, and well-realized Total War games yet. Unfortunately, being the biggest (and only) fish one’s own pond invites a lot of close examination and criticism, and after the ambitious-but-broken efforts that were Empire and Napoleon, many gamers felt burned, concluding that Creative Assembly’s ability to, well, assemble a working game, had finally collapsed under the weight of bugs, incompetent AI and and debilitating feature-creep.
Shogun was such a landmark release that even eleven years on few developers besides Creative Assembly themselves have been able to offer “ Total War-style” gameplay. Creative Assembly had delivered one of the first, if not the first games to effectively marry the depth of traditional turn-based games as with the pace and excitement of real-time combat. Way back in 1999, the release of Shogun: Total War came as something of a revelation to PC gamers.
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