(Compare the descriptions for six techs: “ arms deals”, “ modern army”, “ cordial relations”, “ gold standard”, “ capitalist production”, and “ charter oath”.)īut text is only part of the story. New technologies are accompanied by poetic blurbs, running the gamut from bleak to resigned to hopeful. Generals receive stat boosts by picking up Western knick-knacks: pianos, penny-dreadfuls and more. Trains puff smoke and chug through little tunnels. As you build up your empire, you’ll see more wonderful touches in the graphics and flavour text. You’ll notice the game’s new aesthetic straight away: riflemen face samurai in the game’s loading screens, the new map looks like a nineteenth-century atlas rather than a Japanese scroll, most of the playable daimyo are dressed in Western uniforms. In fifty years, Japan went from a land of shogun and samurai to a power that could beat a Western empire and from look to feel to mechanics, that wrenching transformation is written all over Fall. How does it compare to its illustrious parent?įall’s greatest strength is the clarity of its theme: this is a game about change, in a way that no other Total War game has been. Now the latest, stand-alone expansion, Fall of the Samurai, wraps up almost a millennium of Japanese civil strife by moving forward to the nineteenth-century Boshin War. CA soon followed it up with a first expansion, Rise of the Samurai¸ which wound the clock back to the Gempei War of the twelfth century. Set during the sixteenth-century zenith of the samurai, Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2 (2011) was one of the best strategy game in years.
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