14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher SEGA and the developers at The Creative Assembly have announced that they will be launching a new piece of downloadable content for their strategy game Total War: Shogun 2, set to arrive during the month of September.
Rise of the Samurai will be a new full campaign for the game and will take the players who buy it back to a period 400 years before the events of the Sengoku period that has been the focus of the game until now.
There are six new clans derived from 3 main families to fight as and 16 new land units that need to be used as a number of factions battle each other to install the new Shogun just as the Samurai based warfare system is being developed.
There are also 10 naval units, 4 new heroes to recruit and 10 new retainers that can be used to customize the generals of each side.
The Rise of the Samurai campaign can be played both in single and multiplayer.
The developers at Creative Assembly say of the new content that, “Rise of the Samurai pits you as the leader of one of six playable clans from the Taira, Minamoto and Fujiwara families. This conflict, the Gempei War, culminated in the first Shogun's rise to power, and the consolidation of the Samurai as the ruling class.”
The Creative Assembly is also preparing a new patch for Total War: Shogun 2, which will be launched on the same day as Rise of the Samurai, which is designed to fix a number of issues that remain with the game while upgrading a number of other features.
Total War: Shogun 2 has marked a return to form for the long running series from The Creative Assembly and the core game is worth playing even without any of the DLC that the developers have created.