Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai
The standalone expansion to the award-winning Total War: SHOGUN 2 explores the conflict between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan, 400 years after the events of the original…
Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai is a real time strategy (rts) developed by The Creative Assembly, released 23 March 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai is
Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2012. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on TW Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Based on the backdrop of the Boshin War period, the new campaign starts in 1864, a time of growing resentment against Western colonial power and influence. As Japan begins to modernise and industrialise, the inevitable social and economic changes lead to increasingly militant nationalism and antipathy towards the Shogunate.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Total War series
Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai is the ninth of 56 entries we hold in the Total War series. It arrived a year after Total War: Shogun 2. The next entry was Total War Battles: Shogun in 2012. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points below the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Rome: Total War at 91.
How it was received
Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor, or AMD equivalent (with SSE2), 1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows7) and 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 32GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai launched on 23 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Fez and Kid Icarus: Uprising. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Fez, Kid Icarus: Uprising.
Cheats and codes
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