Video: Shogun 2 Total War Gameplay Mixes Scale & Swordplay
For many PC gamers and television audiences, this may be the week of StarCraft. For those strategy gamers among us who prefer a more historical bent to our RTS games, however, there's still Creative Assembly's Shogun 2: Total War. Following on the success of this year's Napoleon and 2009's Empire, Shogun 2 brings the series' blend of cross-country maneuvering and battlefield strategy to the political machinations of fedual Japan.
The teaser we saw earlier was light on details, but the above video does a much better job of showing off the massive ranks of units that make up each side's forces in a typical Total War game... then zooming to the dirty particulars of a rainy swordfight as samurai clash for their shogunate. With the sweeping pans, daring charges, and desperate motion-captured swordplay, it may take all the concentration at your disposal to remember the trailer's disclaimer: "All footage captured in-game."
Shogun 2: TW doesn't yet have a release date, but if it continues on its path of offering believable historical land and sea battles amid the sakura-soaked hills of Japan, it will surely be worth the wait.
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Posted to Videos on 29 July 2010
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Can't wait, loved the original and almost the entire Total War library (had some issues with medieval... Can't garrison walls... Really?). Rome being my absolute favorite. Now I will really get excited when they release a revamp of that one.