An enormous patch for Total War: Shogun 2 will add new maps ... which will be "considerable larger than any other castle in Shogun 2." The new structures won't turn up in the Rise of the Samurai ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Artists from The Creative Assembly have spent more than a year learning ancient Japanese ink brush and wood block techniques, just to create ...

Jamie Ferguson, Shogun 2's lead designer ... Huge plans are afoot, too, for two other key areas of Total War's experience - naval battles, and castle sieges. The team is hugely excited about ...

E3 2010 is underway, as are rolling hands-off demonstrations of Shogun 2: Total War, a very ... points and ambushes for the invaders--as a castle owner, you'll be able to do all these things ...

Sega's released a new trailer of Shogun 2: Total War. Get it after the break. The clip shows an invading force ready to take on an enemy at night. You know, typical 16 Century Japanese warfare.

“Saints and Heroes” DLC for Total War: Shogun 2 is available today ... and trained to scale castle walls at lightning speed.” Polygon recently spoke with The Creative Assembly about ...

Shogun 2 is the Total War series back on form ... and if you point him at an enemy castle, he can sabotage key production structures within, or its very gates – a beneficial precursor to ...

The size of a province's castle determines the number of ... which were first added to the series in Napoleon: Total War, are back in Shogun 2, which boasts both cooperative and versus multiplayer ...

The essential paradox of Shogun 2 is that it demonstrates both how far the Total War series has come, but also just how little the games have changed. Any brief description of Shogun 2 will sound ...

It's been one of my basic assumptions here at IGN that there is no such thing as the "perfect" game. No matter how ambitious a designer's ideas might be, they will eventually encounter the ...

For Japanese soldiers fighting in the mid-1860s, modern life really is rubbish. This is because their traditional approach to warfare, faced with the rapid advancement of military technology, now ...

Breaking from the complexity of Empire: Total War, Creative Assembly trims things down for Shogun 2. It's not a revolutionary step, but a necessary one. It's a reaffirmation of Total War's core ...