Developers plan to add to the tally via the new expansion

Mar 22, 2012 23:31 GMT  ·  By

Video game publisher SEGA and developer The Creative Assembly have put out a new infographic which shows a number of statistics linked to Shogun 2: Total War, showing some pretty unbelievable numbers that describe the game’s popularity.

One of the most impressive facts is that since it was launched during March 2011 Shogun 2 has managed to get players to game for a total of 1754 years, with each gamer completing an average of just over 7 campaigns during this time.

393 billion samurai were trained by the players, although it is not clear whether this includes the various types of ashigaru troops or only refers to actual elite fighters.

159 billion of the trained samurai have been killed in battle, with the developers helpfully pointing out that their bodies would be able to make the trip to the Moon and back no less than 45 times.

Moving to the in-game generals, 10.5 of them were bribed away from their own faction while 24 million were assassinated by carefully used ninja agents.

The statistics do not show how many of them were killed on the battlefield and how many of them died during suicidal charges.

The most played clan has been the Shimazu and more than 200 million campaign battles have been fought since March 2011.

The Creative Assembly is currently working on the Fall of the Samurai expansion for Shogun 2, which is set to be launched tomorrow via digital distribution.

Gamers will make the move to the Japan of the XIX century and will be able to play a very changed strategy game, with firearms now widespread and all the clans having to deal with the impact of modernization while diplomatically dealing with Western powers.

Fall of the Samurai also delivers a new multiplayer map, new advisors and more items for the samurai avatar general.