Total War: SHOGUN 2

genuine cinema when your outnumbered 1:3 and all you have is ashigaru

Best game ever made

Hurry up and buy this game. Because when total war shogun 2 complete edition comes out, you won't be able to buy this version as a cheaper standalone!. And you will have to pay 39.99 for the complete edition!. But you get a 75% discount if you already OWN shogun 2!, and all the dlcs you buy here. Will be carried over to the complete edition!. So hurry!

Beatifull game after so many years still breathtaking. Amazing soundtrack and many memorazing battles. Thumbs up!

Fun

Do you want to build an entire army of emotionless, fearless, fanatically devoted Naginata wielding monks from the Northern end of Feudal Japan? Do you want to put into battle no less than 8 regiments of archers that are dirt cheap but have about 250 men in them each? Do you like answering "You and what Army" with a charge of around a thousand screaming, red-armor clad psychopaths with bows, naginata and katanas out of the woods that ol' boss didn't quite see there? Do you like the feeling of spending maybe a half an hour on a game to get yourself started, only to have passed 7 consecutive hours without blinking or getting up to pee? Then look no further than Total War: SHOGUN 2! Now complete with the "Oh Jesus you could actually regress their technology?" and "AHAHAHA GATLING GUNS DO WHAT?" Expansions!

So far my favourite game in the TW franchise (Having played Napoleon, Empire and Medieval 2). You can clearly see, even 15 years on, how the devs poured their hearts and souls into this game, the mechanics are the smoothest running of any TW game I've played, the AI isn't TOO dumb and can still put up an adequate fight. Many of the errors and issues I found with the old TW games have been amended e.g. selection and targeting bugs as well as selection and movement not working in pause mode in Napoleon and Empire. The graphics are STILL visually pleasing with some of the sickest animations I've ever seen with combat of this scale (charging my katana samurai into the enemy and seeing legs, arms and heads rolling with finishers and all is actually dazzling). Finally, the amount of content is just wild, practically 2.5 (Rise of the samurai is similar to the OG but still a cool feature) different games, and I haven't even had a chance to properly play FOTS yet even though THATS WHY I BOUGHT THE GAME, because there's just so much variation and difficulty to the base game alone. I can see many more hours poured into this with plenty of more content to explore. Overall 9.9/10 game.