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All About Total War: Shogun 2's Campaign

How to maraud across feudal Japan in a few easy steps!

Jan. 14 2011

Posted by: Brad

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Total War: Shogun 2

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Heh, got it :D

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TBS FTW 
 
Also British people trying to sound japanese.

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damn that women's voice is annoying :x

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I want this so bad. also the VO on this is terrible.

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I can't wait, love me some total war.
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Oh man I can't wait for this, I loved the first one so much, though I never played any of the others.

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Looks good. I wonder if I'll be able to change the UI to Japanese...

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Want, want sooo bad.

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Just seen the limited edition - me want be ninja.

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Man, I fear my even relatively recent PC will not be able to run this. 
 
Also: Skill trees for agents = awesome.

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My PC gonna burn soon. Can't wait !

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As a total war Vet im failing to see anything "new" here.

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jizzed in my pants
been playing rome recently. Even though it's kind of old, it still is one of the games i enjoy most.

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I've never gotten into a Total War game...but I've always WANTED to.

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To bad empire is still broken. I literally can't play because the resolution is all messed up.  
This women sucks.

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sounds like she's going to sell me WoW Gold

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did anyone else think the voice over made it seem a little racist?  oh no am I getting overly sensitive ...crap

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I just want to hear them announce that they've fixed the siege AI.

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@deadbynature: Yes, Creative Assembly thinks the Japanese are inferior because of a trailer's voiceover....jesus ppl throw around racist way too much. 
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Pffff all the real time battles end up being auto resolved.

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"... Oh, and we fixed the AI." 
 
Hm, she didn't mention the AI at all did she. DID SHE.

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"That's racist!" - Tested.com

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I hope they've improved the engine. 

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Edited By Xeiphyer

Looks so good!  
 
EXP seems like a smart addition, definitely something I have always wanted.
 
Mostly though I am just happy to be back to an era of unit diversity, Empires Total War was so dry with like 4 units in the entire game, just reskinned with slightly different stats.

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Oh god I can't waittttttttttttttttttt

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Mmmmm feudal Japan.

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I love the style of this. Could never get into the Empire/Napoleon stuff. 

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Edited By fripplebubby

Well, it's Total War alright, but i'll appreciate the return to melee. Not to mention, skill trees that look damn sweet, ninjas, mustaches, and ninjas with mustaches (yet unconfirmed). 

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Her words were laced with ambiguity

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They're always so angry. Be a happy samurai while stabbin' dudes.

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Edited By dyong

I guess for expansions Mongolia will invade Japan and Japan will invade China again. Still, I guess a graphical and gameplay update to Shogun wouldn't be so bad.

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I just want a new rome total war.

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wait wait wait, you guys know like nothing about comic games, but you still bothered to get 5 guys for this, but got no one from Comic Vine!? just weird of you hahaha!

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Edited By Vlad_Tiberius

Well, expect the same shitty PR and awful Sega marketing policy of having various retailer-specific pre-order exclusive units (or other in-game content) and special/limited edition content that isn't available as DLC for people who bought the normal edition of the game, even after almost a YEAR since the release date. 
The people who bought Napoleon Total War know what I'm talking about. 
The people who didn't, picture this: even if you have pre-ordered the special edition of the game and bought every subsequent DLC for the game, you still DON'T RECEIVE all the content. Why? Because, in order to have all the content, you should have been insane enough to pre-order the special edition of the game from 4 different retailers just to get all the pre-order exclusive units! Had enough? Here's more: 1 of those retailers is delivering ONLY in Europe. BOOM! Game over!
 
The funny part is that, eventually, the did fix those marketing issues with the PREVIOUS title, Empire Total War, yet they still haven't done anything about the CURRENT title, Napoleon Total War. And I'm not even mentioning the bugs and crashes- that's a whole other chapter.
 
But hey, we're in 2011 and shitty marketing stunts like that  are still being made, and by big time publishers nonetheless, like Sega. 
And shitty marketing stunts like that will eventually bury the PC gaming, which isn't all that great these days, that's for sure.

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dam, why should I convert to christianity to get gunpowder if I can just kill the christians and take it for myself!

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Holy shit. This is definitely the woman who voiced Kat in Halo: Reach. Her voice is so oddly sexy.

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vo is so bad it's almost racist xD

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I miss segasoft pc games.

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@Vlad_Tiberius:  Do a few special units really destroy the entire experience for you? I see the shared unit base as what is delivered for the game and the extras just as some flavouring. If entire campaigns or game-play features were missing that would be an entirely different story.  
 
As for the marketing aspect of this. This is what PUBLISHERS decide to do and this goes on for all platforms not just PC. If PC gaming does get buried (which it won't), pre-order exclusives will certainly not be the reason. There is actually way more of that type of thing going on in the console space.
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They make new shogun games faster than I can change my undies.

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I will never understand why I don't like this franchise. It has everything I love, but I just can never get into it.

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im guessing this is a pc-only game?  well ill get it and ill definately convert to christianity cause thats what my ancestor did

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@BounceDK said:
" They make new shogun games faster than I can change my undies. "
You mean Total War games?
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This franchise tries to be a realy good turn base strategy game(main map) and a realy good real time strategy game(combat). 
 
The problem is that often ppl who likes RTS dont like Turn based gameplay and vice-versa. 
 
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This will be the Total War game that I will get addicted to methinks. 
 
The old ones were pretty good, but I found them very finicky. A  more streamlined experience would be great, as long as they don't dumb anything down.

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Ah, Mistah JC Denton. In da fresh.

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I think the Engrish VO actually adds effect, instead of being racist. But yea this game looks pretty cool

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Looks awesome, tho the CG leaves a lot to be desired.  It's so bad, I wish they just didn't have CG movies 

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i want this game , just as i want to get all the total war games . but i first have to start with rome wich has been in my collection for age's but i havem't play'd it yet in earnest.

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Total War is one of the top PC franchises of all time, in my opinion.