That’s right, Shogun 2 has been announced
You better believe it, gamers! Time to get back into your Samurai armour and try to take over Japan!
Ten years ago, a game development company called Creative Assembly created an awesome battle simulation game called Shogun: Total War. It was an awesome game, where you commanded armies as a Daimyo and tried to take over the entirety of Japan.
Sounds pretty damn fun, right? Well, from what I’ve heard it was fantastic. Unfortunately I didn’t hear about the game when it was released, too busy with other titles I supposed, and I didn’t get to it before it looked pretty bad on my system. Not to worry, I thought, Creative Assembly will surely be making a sequel, right?
CA went on to make Medieval: Total War, Rome: Total War, Medieval 2: Total War, Empire: Total War, and Napoleon: Total War in the intervening ten years. I thoroughly enjoyed both of the Medieval titles, however Empire was not very fun for me as the time period was far less interesting and I didn’t enjoy the sea battles, and I didn’t play Napoleon at all. I’d sort of given up hope of being able to play an updated version of Shogun, so I’m very happy to see CA going back to where it all started and making a sequel for it.
The teaser trailer has no game play featured as yet, however the visuals included fit perfectly with the art style of the time the game is set - somewhere between 1450 BC to 1600 BC - and are really very well done.
So I’m counting down until this game is released, though I’m thinking I’ll have plenty to fill my time with Civilization V shipping later this year. That title I’m so incredibly excited about, along with Diablo 3 though there’s no firm release date on that one yet.
