Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai

Fall of the Samurai, the first stand-alone expansion for Total War: Shogun 2, is set during Japan's Boshin War of the 1860s, a civil war that began as an ideological struggle over the shogunate's pro-Western policies. Clans opposed to these policies...

The Creative Assembly return with their most modern Total War release yet. As can be expected, Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai is an exemplary title that offers armchair generals plenty of opportunities to practise the art of...

The making of an expansion that improves upon one of the most seamless strategy games of the last several years is no easy prospect. Any major changes might upset the careful balance that Creative Assembly established with last year's phenomenal Total...

Yes, Fall of the Samurai is an expansion, but like any good expansion – even standalone expansion – it doesn't just add things to the original, it changes them. You'll get an experience much more like a Civil War-era wargame with Fall of the Samurai,...

Fall of the Samurai places a greater emphasis on the non-combat aspects of the game than any other Total War title. It groups us with a philosophical allegiance rather than creating total war and while on the surface this allegiance is easy to...

Last year, Total War: Shogun 2 managed to reunite the Total War faithful after a series of controversial games in the franchise. And now there's been a welcome development: Those who didn't get enough of Shogun 2 can try out a new expansion, Fall of...

To say that Fall of the Samurai, (the latest content expansion for Creative Assembly's highly successful Total War instalment Shogun 2), didn't meet expectations would be wrong. Play it, and you'll find a well-crafted experience, that's challenging,...

Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai Review1 2 On paper, Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai reads like the ramblings of an eight year old after his first history lesson, hand stretched tentatively up into the air in class to ask who would win in a...