Total War: Shogun 2 - Rise of the Samurai
Rise of The Samurai is an, independent campaign for Total War: Shogun 2. Set 400 years before the dramatic civil war depicted in SHOGUN 2, the "Rise of The Samurai" campaign is based on the Gempei War, a…
Total War: Shogun 2 - Rise of the Samurai is a strategy developed by The Creative Assembly, released 27 September 2011 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Total War: Shogun 2 - Rise of the Samurai is
Total War: Shogun 2 - Rise of the Samurai is a strategy game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2011. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an PEGI 16 age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rise of The Samurai is an, independent campaign for Total War: Shogun 2. Set 400 years before the dramatic civil war depicted in SHOGUN 2, the "Rise of The Samurai" campaign is based on the Gempei War, a conflict between six legendary clans of the Taira, Minamoto and Fujiwara families. It culminated in the first Shogunate, and the rise of the Samurai as the ruling class.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Total War: Shogun 2 - Rise of the Samurai holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 18 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 - Rise of the Samurai launched on 27 September 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.
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