Developer Creative Assembly is deep in production with Shogun 2: Total War and the studio admit it's essential to 'ham up' history to find the fun in it. A contest between fun and history? "...fun will win," declares Total War's Mike Simpson. Shogun 2 ditches the world scope for Japan, and drama.
Publisher SEGA will be sticking with its "three pillars" to ensure they have a "healthy and profitable" future as a "successful, medium-sized" outfit. Their 'aces in the hole' are Football Manager, Sonic and Total War with the first two seeing releases this year. It's about "sustaining" their position.
Creative Assembly will keep hold of Shogun 2: Total War until their AI programming is near perfect reveals studio community manager Craig Laycock. If anyone spots something "stupid happening" with AI then "everyone stops" to get a look at the problem, and to see how they can fix it. It's due early 2011.
SEGA has announced the release date for the next instalment in the classic Total War strategy series. A re-make of the very first game in the franchise, Creative Assembly will be releasing Shogun 2: Total War on March 15th 2011.
You're looking for Shogun 2: Total War? Sorry that game doesn't exist - end of story. Perhaps you mean the more conventional Total War: Shogun 2? Sega and Creative Assembly from here on out will be putting Total War first, literally, as it helps identify the games "as one series", starting with Shogun 2.
Developer Creative Assembly still has ideas for the Total War franchise getting to consoles, at least in their periphery. The control scheme is 'already done'. It's actually a matter of would it "sell on console?" It's RTS with a love of history and deeply rooted to PC. They're "looking at everything" for the future.
Modders rejoice! Creative Assembly has confirmed that they will be releasing a set of modding tools for Napoleon: Total War "in the near future". The news came out during Strategy Informer's interview with Total War: Shogun 2's Lead Designer Jamie Ferguson, where we asked him why the relationship with the modding community had been a bit rocky recently.
Creative Assembly Lead Designer Jamie Ferguson has commented that the company may have over-reached themselves when it came to designing Empire: Total War. In an interview with Strategy Informer regarding Shogun 2, we asked him whether depth beats scope...
Total War developers Creative Assembly have mused that taking the series more into the online space is something they could be exploring in the future. The multiplayer aspects in Shogun 2 have been completely overhauled, and we asked the team whether this was laying the groundwork for a game like Petroglyph's End of Nations.
Sega has revealed the Total War: Shogun 2 Limited Edition. The package will include a unique playable faction, the Hattori Clan, an additional historical battle scenario 'Nagashino' and a complete set of armor for your online avatar as well as a starting bank of XP for you to spend on your online character.
Total War: Shogun 2's Collector's Edition will come with a finely polished wooden Shogun-themed Chess set.
Part IV of our exclusive feature completes our look at games we're looking forward to for next year.
The full system specs for Shogun: Total War 2 have been revealed by Creative Assembly, both the minimum specs and the recommended specs.
A new video has been released for Total War: Shogun 2, this time showing off the reams of options and detail in the campaign mode, where you can level up assassins and generals, protect heirs and marry off daughters, plan alliances, strategically direct your armies, convert to Christianity, and generally try to become Shogun of Japan.
Creative Assembly's Total War: Shogun 2 slowly edges closer and so publisher SEGA has announced what pre-order bonuses there are to grab. On offer is the 'Historic Battle of Kawagoe' scenario which involves a "night time counter-attack" against besieging forces, and in-game currency.
Sega has announced that the demo for Total War: Shogun 2 will be available on Steam next week on February 22. The game itself launches on March 15.
Total War: Shogun 2′s senior community manager, Craig Laycock, in an interview with strategy site Armchair General, bragged about the bigness of the game's multiplayer.
The UK all formats chart is aflame with rebellious citizenry in THQ's Homefront, followed by BioWare's tale of immigrant to champion in Dragon Age II. Pokemon White was able to fend off Total War: Shogun 2 from entering third, as it came fourth instead. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood back in top 10.
Total War: Shogun 2's second patch will add DirectX 11 support, as Creative Assembly stated they expect to release the patch in the first week of May. This makes sense since the recommended system specs state "AMD Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series graphics cards or equivalent DirectX 11 compatible graphics card."
Sony Online Entertainment knows the value of friendship and so are encouraging subscribers of Star Wars Galaxies to use their free transfer service. If that galaxy your in is a little too spacey between sentient life then jump. Your eligible when an account is over 90 days old, and on one of the original worlds.