“It’s quite a complicated and interesting situation.” explains Total War lead James Russell. This will spice up your campaign with a good dose of mistrust (in real-life the Taira family ended up ripping chunks out of itself) but will also make for some supremely engaging co-op and multiplayer. The three major players are the Fujiwara, who are the regents at around that time, then the Taira and the Minamoto who are like feudal clans.”Įach family, however, contains a sibling rivalry – two strained factions sharing an uneasy familial alliance. There’s the Emperor, there are regents and there are important families. “It’s set in the late 1100s – so the way that the country is governed is totally different: there’s no Shogun as such. “It’s an earlier civil war, on a much smaller scale - so the ideal size for PDLC really.” Explains Creative Assembly Battle Lead Jamie Ferguson. Within this conflict your skills on the battlefield, in diplomacy and in pretty Japanese lady placement will define just who becomes the first all powerful Shogun and who accelerates the Samurai towards being the ruling class of Japan. Out at an as yet unspecified point this month, it’s a (good) Revenge of the Sith in the way it sets up the ruling order we are now so familiar with: a bloody patch of history, four hundred years before the start of Shogun 2, called the Gempei War. It was like stumbling across this incredible new universe on the scale of LOTR or Star Wars, but this one was somehow real.Ĭontinuing with this theme, then, the forthcoming £5.99 downloadable campaign Rise of the Samurai is essentially Total War: Shogun 2 – Episodes 1-3.
Everything was just so alien, and alluring, to my closed-off western hemisphere brain. My own historical knowledge has only ever been gently simmered by Henry VIII being miffed with the Pope, or perhaps Harold bullshitting William the Conqueror in the presence of some special bones, so for Shogun 2 to suddenly present those fabulous castles, that intricate history and that awesome array of weaponry was faintly mindblowing. To my mind - a mind squeezed through an entirely western-orientated educational cookie-cutter - a primary draw was olden-time Japan itself. Shogun 2 Total War wasn’t fascinating for its campaign map politics and tactical intricacies alone. Last week we sent Will Porter to The Creative Assembly to find out about their forthcoming campaign DLC for Shogun 2.
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