Total War: Shogun 2

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  1. Dihm

    Dihm Speaker of the Word Staff Member Gothi SC Thane

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    Buy it, love it, caress it, have its illegitimate child.

    Demo available on Steam.

    Huge changes, at least over Medieval 2 (I didn't play Empire/Napoleon). Lots and lots of improvements, both to the campaign play and to the battles. Lots of UI improvements at the very least.

    Multiplayer trailer: Sega has released a multiplayer trailer for Total War: Shogun 2. The war does appear large, though we're not so sure it's total. There are clearly some empty spots on the battlefield, and they're not even filled with corpses! Then again, we suppose "Substantial War" doesn't have the same ring to it.

    Gamespot sucks, but here is a decent preview which essentially goes through the demo. The video with the Creative Assembly dude is good, he gives a lot of info.

    IGN Preview

    Oh yeah, there's a multiplayer clan system as well.
     
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    Dihm Speaker of the Word Staff Member Gothi SC Thane

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    From the forums:

     
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    Neat! I will be picking this up. Anyone else for a co-op night? :D
     
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    Dihm Speaker of the Word Staff Member Gothi SC Thane

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    There's also a Legendary game difficulty:

    No battle mini-map, can't move your camera from your troops. Can't issue commands with the game paused. Can't save the game (game autosaves before/after battle and before/after turns).
     
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    I've never played any of those and i want them all
     
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    Napoleon is up for $7.50 today. For those of you who already bought Shogun 2 before that kickass deal :sad:
     
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    .....I picked up the collection.
     
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    Also, Stephen, when do you want to start our Co-Op game? Tomorrow night? :D

    Anyone else want in if we can do more than 2 players?
     
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    I would join you but my army of shogun, samurai and ninjas all drowned in the tsunami. I am very sad, I had big hopes of taking over Vietnam and the Koreas.
     
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    ScrewCityChris Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll Staff Member Jarl SC Huscarl

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    Unoriginal Bastards Clan formed

    UOB Gaming clan has been formed in-game (Thanks Dihm!). Steam group is also up.

    Lets see if we can top those multi-player leader boards! :lol:
     
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    Man, the naval battles are a lot of fun so far :)
     
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    Dihm Speaker of the Word Staff Member Gothi SC Thane

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    Now if only we can figure out wtf was wrong with multiplayer.
     
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    Dihm Speaker of the Word Staff Member Gothi SC Thane

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    Isn't it just you and me? :bananalama:
     
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    I'm downloading the Demo. If it knocks my socks off, I might buy it.
     
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    It got Chris hooked.
     
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    I played a decent amount of the Avatar Conquest last night and it worked totally fine... got my ass handed to me, but it worked.
     
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    Way to make our Clan suck bro
     
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    :sad:
     
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