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King Arthur II is in many ways similar to the Total War series from The Creative Assembly, mainly when it comes to the real time tactical engagements.
But there’s one crucial difference between the two series: in King Arthur II no one ever seems to flee from battle, regardless of whether they are monster... |
10 February 2012
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January is pretty much an empty month when it comes to video game releases and the industry looks to February for a few signs of life, with the “Second Christmas” period set to begin in March and last throughout April and the early parts of May.This is a direct result of the fact that publishers tend to p... |
4 February 2012
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Fall of the Samurai, the standalone expansion which will be launched for Total War: Shogun 2 during March, might still be a hardcore strategy game, but the developers are trying to make sure that newcomers will be able to get into the game quickly, using video tutorials that explain the game mechanics and units chara... |
3 February 2012
08:18 GMT |
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The developers at The Creative Assembly have put out a number of new screens linked to their upcoming Fall of the Samurai standalone expansion for the strategy game Total War: Shogun 2, which will be offered exclusively on the PC on March 23.
The screens show how the expansion changes various aspects of the strategy... |
1 February 2012
05:53 GMT |
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The poor old PC has become a platform where major AAA titles launch late if at all but out of this unfriendly gaming medium dedicated developers can coax something like Total War: Shogun 2, the most recent installment in the long running strategy franchise from The Creative Assembly and, after starting out with Activ... |
27 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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The developers at The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA have announced that they have revealed the cover for the upcoming Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall of the Samurai standalone expansion, which is currently set to arrive exclusively on the PC during March 2012.The cover reflects the overall concept of the cont... |
8 December 2011
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Developer The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA have launched two new pieces of downloadable content for their strategy game Total War: Shogun 2, allowing gamers to play with the Hattori clan and enjoy a more bloody tactical battle experience.The Hattori are not known for their military prowess but are masters at ... |
30 November 2011
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The developers at The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA have announced that Total War: Shogun 2, the strategy game launched earlier this year, is set to get a big standalone expansion called Fall of the Samurai, which will take place about 400 years after the events of the game and will see the clash between tradi... |
29 November 2011
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Video game publisher SEGA and developer The Creative Assembly have announced the launch of a new piece of downloadable content for their blockbuster Total War: Shogun 2, the latest installment in the long-running mix between real-time tactics and turn-based strategy, called Sengoku Jidai Unit Pack. The pack, as the ... |
29 July 2011
03:24 GMT |
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The Creative Assembly, as the developer, and SEGA, as the publisher, have launched a new downloadable content pack for their strategy game Total War: Shogun 2, allowing those who download it to play with a whole new faction and its specific tools of war while also adding some content to the multiplayer side of the ga... |
27 May 2011
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The Creative Assembly might have announced that it was working on a new game based on the Aliens franchise but that does not mean that their main Total War series is being ignored, with a team already working on the initial design stages for a new title.
Mike Simpson, who is the creative director at The Creative A... |
18 May 2011
13:41 GMT |
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I liked the new Total War: Shogun 2 very much, as you can read from my review and my set of Gamer Diaries, and I have also gone back and played a bit of Medieval 2 and Rome: Total War during the last few weeks, losing myself once again in the thick historical “what if” situations that the games manage to ... |
16 April 2011
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Andrei Dumitrescu: How long can one Facebook game hold my attention? At the moment Dragon Age: Legends, the game that BioWare created with EA 2D, has managed to keep me occupied for more than one month and continues to offer challenges and surprises.
I have written about how the Legends experience is carefully bui... |
15 April 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Do gamers like being closer to total freedom or being guided by the benevolent hand of the developer? I have been playing quite a bit of the Total War series lately, focusing on Rome and on Shogun 2 mostly and I found myself asking this question quite a bit while comparing the two ways that the games approach the pos... |
6 April 2011
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One of the biggest changes made in Total War: Shogun 2, the strategy title just released by SEGA and created by The Creative Assembly, versus previous titles in the long-running series is that almost all factions start the game with just one region under control and, mostly, with at least one rebel army threatening t... |
31 March 2011
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It is hard to review Total War: Shogun 2. The game is the second one set in Medieval Japan, focusing on the struggle between the clans for control of the title of Shogun. The game is the latest in a long running strategy series from The Creative Assembly that began about 11 years ago and has lately suffered from a ra... |
22 March 2011
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I believe that the Total War series has one of the best concepts of the video game strategy world at the moment, and I am happy to report that initial impressions, after about 4 hours of single player and 3 multiplayer matches, suggest that Shogun 2 is the game to make fans forget the issues they had with Empire and ... |
17 March 2011
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Total War: Shogun 2 has just been launched and the developers that have worked on the game at The Creative Assembly are keen to make sure that gamers experience all that the new strategy game has to offer.
Craig Laycock, who is the senior community manager at the developer, has told Armchair General that modding i... |
16 March 2011
18:31 GMT |
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There were a lot of muskets and heavily armored cavalry regiments in the most recent Total War titles, Empire and Napoleon, and the setting, coupled with the awkward Artificial Intelligence, meant that the titles were seen as limited at best by the fans who have been with the franchise since the innovation happy days... |
24 February 2011
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Developer The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA have announced that they are planning to release a demo version of their highly anticipated Total War: Shogun 2 strategy game on February 22, delivered exclusively through the digital distribution service Steam. The two companies say that the demo will include a tas... |
16 February 2011
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What we knowThe Total War series is going back to its roots with this new installment, again portraying the constant battles between Japanese warlords that are aiming to gain the title of Shogun and rule the entire nation.Shogun 2: Total War delivers a whole new game engine while still maintaining the same basic stru... |
17 January 2011
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The Creative Assembly, as the developer, and SEGA, as the publisher, have offered the official system specifications needed to run their upcoming strategy title, Shogun 2: Total War, providing both a minimum set of requirements and a set of recommended hardware.The minimum hardware requirements from Total War: Shogun... |
7 January 2011
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The leading designer working on Shogun 2: Total War, the upcoming strategy title from publisher SEGA and developer The Creative Assembly has said that the new Artificial Intelligence that his team has created for the game is now able to beat humans on the highest difficulty settings.
Mike Simpson, the man who lead... |
27 December 2010
16:41 GMT |
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After moving steadily up through the centuries of history, from Japan to Medieval Europe and then to the Renaissance, a lot of fans expected the Total War series to make the move to some sort of modern day conflict, fundamentally changing the mechanics of the real time battle sections of the game.
Instead, the tea... |
22 December 2010
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Publisher SEGA and developer The Creative Assembly have announced that the upcoming Total War: Shogun 2 will be coming to the market in three versions, allowing players to customize the degree to which they are interested in immersing in the world of war bound Japanese clans.The most complete edition is the Collector... |
17 December 2010
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Two of the leading developers working on the upcoming Total War: Shogun 2 have revealed that they have actively looked at how the popular strategy franchise could be ported to gaming consoles, suggesting that the game has been tested with a control scheme linked to home console.
Speaking to CVG Kevin McDowell, who... |
9 December 2010
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The developers at The Creative Assembly have revealed that Total War: Shogun 2, the strategy title which is set to be released in early 2011, will include a revamped multiplayer mode where gamers will be able to create personal Avatar which will evolve as they fight and win battles against other humans.
Ian Roxbur... |
7 December 2010
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The developers at The Creative Assembly have talked some more about the naval battle mechanics in the upcoming Total War: Shogun 2, the strategy game which is set to be launched during March 2011 and is tasked with taking the series back to its gameplay and historical roots.
Gabor Beressy, one of the designers wor... |
6 December 2010
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Publisher SEGA and developer The Creative Assembly have announced that their upcoming Shogun 2 strategy title will, for the first time in the series, have the series moniker Total War label placed head of the official name, rather than behind.This means that gamers will be buying Total War: Shogun 2 rather than the o... |
29 November 2010
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SEGA, as the publisher, and The Creative Assembly, as the developers, have announced that Shogun 2: Total War is now officially set to be released globally on March 15, 2011, allowing gamers to once again take charge of one Japanese faction and try to unite the home islands via conquest and shrewd diplomatic moves.Pr... |
12 November 2010
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A member of the development team working on the upcoming strategy title Shogun 2: Total War has said that the team has a free hand to delay the game as long as the Artificial Intelligence which powers the computer opponents is not perfect.Talking to the New Zeeland based Gameplanet Craig Laycock, who is the community... |
20 October 2010
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The Creative Assembly is working on a new Total War video game, marking the return to the Shogunate era of Japanese history, and one of the most important elements of the design that the development team is working on is the creation of an Artificial Intelligence that can compete with the tactics employed by the play... |
7 October 2010
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The Creative Assembly has unveiled more information about the Agents that will appear in Shogun 2: Total War, the mix between turn based and real time strategy that will arrive in 2011, showing the complex missions that they can perform on the strategic map.The agents in Shogun 2: Total War are the Geishas, the Ninja... |
22 September 2010
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SEGA, as the publisher, has announced that it will be combining its most recent two Total War launches, Empire and Napoleon, into a new Gold package that is set to be launched on October 19 for the price of 50 dollars.The new edition of the two games is designed to deliver the complete experience to strategy gamers w... |
8 September 2010
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Capcom lost money in its first fiscal quarter of the year and even the juggernaut that is Nintendo failed to turn up a profit in a tough climate, with a strong Yen and with falling sales of hardware. But SEGA managed to sell a profit of 7 billion Yen, which is the equivalent of 80.0 million dollars, during the same p... |
3 August 2010
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The Creative Assembly has confirmed that it is working on Shogun 2: Total War, bringing its long running mix of strategic and tactical gameplay back to where it all started more than ten years ago. The creators have also said that they plan to design an experience closer to that of the first Shogun than to that offer... |
7 June 2010
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The Creative Assembly has officially confirmed that it is working on Shogun 2: Total War, a new installment in its long running series, which takes a trip back on memory lane to the first historical period it has ever tackled. Fans of the franchise have long asked for a return to Japan and its samurai warriors, espec... |
3 June 2010
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SEGA, the publisher, and The Creative Assembly, the developer, have announced that they will be launching a new expansion for Napoleon: Total War called The Peninsular Campaign, which will allow the gamer to take control of four factions as they take part in a fresh campaign focused on the fighting that went on in Sp... |
26 May 2010
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The signs are pointing to a new Total War title, created by The Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, to be unveiled in all its splendor at the E3 trade show, which takes place towards the middle of June.A mail received by major gaming news outlets apparently offers some details under embargo at the moment, the ma... |
25 May 2010
04:59 GMT |
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It seems that Creative Assembly, the studio behind the long-running Total War series of history based strategy titles, is planning to create a sports title for publisher SEGA. The Brisbane team has posted a job listing which talks about a next generation sports title that is under development, with the team needing a... |
20 May 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Any good battle opens with a cannonade. The key decision is whether to aim the fire at the artillery pieces of the enemy or whether to try and share their infantry units, destroying their cohesion and sapping their morale. Next, the two battle lines close, looking for geography features that can offer a local advanta... |
2 April 2010
05:38 GMT |
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I am currently on holiday in Prague, sampling some of the best beer in the world, enjoying the historical heritage of the city and praying that it will not rain too much. But gaming is always on my mind and during this EndWeekGame piece, I would like to take a look at how even my vacation time is affected by gaming.S... |
26 March 2010
17:41 GMT |
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I've been playing quite a bit of Napoleon: Total War in the last two weeks. I've now probably spent more time with it at this point than with its predecessor, Empire, which was launched last year and set to revolutionize the series by moving it to the musket and cannon era. And I will probably spend even mo... |
20 March 2010
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It's hard walking in the footsteps of Napoleon Bonaparte with the difficulty turned all the way up. Borodino might have just been the last straw. It took me quite a few tries to complete that battle and I needed to actually cool off between tries with the R.U.S.E. beta. It's telling that I actually lost alm... |
17 March 2010
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After the initiation at Lodi, a pretty simple setup where the only big danger is heading into the town directly, the Napoleon wannabe is tasked with winning another battle crucial to the North Italian campaign, the Battle of Arcole, which is much more of a problem. I lost this one on the first try mainly because of b... |
10 March 2010
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The most interesting aspect of Napoleon: Total War, which has now been out for a few days, is not the chance to take control of Napoleon's French side from both a tactical and a strategic aspect as they drudge through Northern Italy, as they face the British and the Ottomans in Egypt or as they face the might of... |
9 March 2010
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I am again the only voice talking about my gaming habits for the upcoming two days and I am tempted to pick two games that could not be more different, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 from Electronic Arts and DICE, and Napoleon: Total War from The Creative Assembly and SEGA.The Battlefield sequel is a much improved game o... |
5 March 2010
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Saying that Napoleon Bonaparte was ambitious is a sort of understatement. The diminutive French general was ready to take on Russia, Austria and any other coalition, which would stand in his way. He was a clear tactical genius but often lacked the strategic view needed to see that his efforts were ultimately destined... |
19 February 2010
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Games and their developers get their own award show, but the mod community's efforts are sometimes just as impressive, so it should only be fitting that mods themselves should get an award show as well. And, if anything, 2009 was a great year for game mods, as some very impressive ones have been put together. Mo... |
10 February 2010
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The Creative Assembly, as the developer, and SEGA, as the publisher, are confirming that the multiplayer play element will be available for all three campaigns in the upcoming Napoleon: Total War set to be released for the PC on February 23. The number of players who will be able to cooperate or fight against each ot... |
22 January 2010
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