#TOTAL WAR ROME 2 DEMO SERIES#

#TOTAL WAR ROME 2 DEMO SERIES#

Already the forums are questioning this, with conspiracy theories flying saying it means the Total War series is heading into the realms of fantasy RTS. One thing that might differentiate each faction even more is the controversial addition of hero characters. Not just on the campaign map, but also on the battlefield.' Hero Samurai We want to make sure that each faction has a specific trait that makes it play differently. You might find that your position gives you specific advantages, specific resources that you hold that others don't. 'We're also wanting to make sure that those factions play differently on the campaign map. 'I think what we do want to do is make sure that each faction plays differently, and that's true both on the campaign map and on the battlefield,' says Brigden. What we've tried to do is make each faction different in terms of how they play, and what their strengths and weaknesses are with different units.' If you think about Empire, an average faction only had between 12 and 15 units specific to it. 'We have approximately 30 units of different types on the battlefield,' This isn't going to be the case in the new game. In the original Shogun, the factions were all pretty much the same, give or take starting positions and colours. There'll be eight different factions in the main game including the Date, Hojo, Takeda and Uesugi, with a ninth playable in the tutorial. We are going to make sure that the player feels that the far reaches of the country are a long way away, they're unknown, and they aren't necessarily familiar with all the kingdoms and fiefs that are out there.' For medieval Japan, we'll portray that as an epic environment. 'Empire obviously had a huge geographic scope that reflected the colonial outreaching of Europe across the globe at the time. 'The campaign map will still have that epic feel, but what we want to do is try to immerse the player in the mind of a 16th century Japanese feudal lord, who saw Japan as the universe. 'It's still going to be a game of epic scale,' says Kieran Brigden, the company's communications manager. Japan's geographically small, but that doesn't mean Creative Assembly are thinking that way. Since the original Total War maps have been getting bigger, culminating in Empire's globe-spanning effort. Japan is also different in a more obvious way to what's come before. In the winter, you obviously have the snow-covered buildings and the entire battlefield is white.' So, for example, in spring you have the cherry blossoms, and you can see petals blowing away from the trees. 'We're going very much for the archetype of what people would see if they were in Japan. So you actually get the changing environments and the way those environments work. 'One example would be the passing of the seasons,' Russell says, 'because we have four seasons in a campaign year. That's reflected all the way through the game, in terms of wood blocks and prints that appear on various screens how the actual way the battlefields themselves work and look, and the campaign map.'ДЇar Eastern art is very different to what we're used to in the West and Shogun 2 is going to really go to town on representing this exotic feel throughout the game. 'I think we're just pushing as hard as we possibly can to capture the entire feel and look of feudal Japan, while creating something that's vivid and beautiful. 'It's basically the game we wanted to make right at the beginning,' says Shogun 2's lead game designer Kamie Russell.

It's your job to be deemed worthy of that role and to control the Emperor like a puppet, much like the medieval Papacy was the lapdog of any number of medieval European kings. In Japan the Emperor holds ultimate power, except he can be easily manipulated by his nominated warlord, the titular Shogun. The essentials will be pretty much the same - take control of one of eight factions vying for control of the Land of the Rising Sun, build up your armies and economy until none can stand in your way. There's more to this sequel to the beloved and now-ancient Shogun than floating boxes. And those are just the smaller ones - there are also castles-on-water, which sound too awesome to be true.

Two big canoes crash into each other, dozens of samurai spilling onto each deck, hacking each other to bits with their razor-sharp swords. That might sound like a stupid thing to be excited about, but just think of the possibilities.

It's the boats and the fact they'll be like floating sheds. The Best Thing that's come out about Sliogun 2: Total War hasn't got anything to do with ninja, koku, daimyo or those sorts of things.

Total war rome 2 demo