IGN writes: "The Total War franchise is known for its huge, beautiful battlefields, and our recent looks at Shogun II: Total War have shown that this game doesn't buck this trend. What we hadn't seen until now, though, was the other half of the experience – the just-as-important campaign mode. So much of being a leader in feudal Japan revolved around your family's honor, how you maintained relationships with your fellow noblemen, and, inevitably, what you did to make sure you had a leg up on your opponents when conflict was unavoidable. This has not escaped the team at Creative Assembly, as Shogun II has an intricate political and familial system that looks to be as fun, if not more so, than the act of playing out the battles themselves".
GamersGate unveiled its classical Week-End sale and you can now get some of the greatest PC 2K Games titles discounted by 75%. Headliners are The Bureau : XCOM Declassified, Borderlands : GOTY, Bioshock 1 & 2, NBA 2K14 and The Darkness II. They also have Blades of Times discounted by 75% as their daily deal, Total War and Space Battle Week-End are featured too.
There are actually some pretty good deals here, and a wide variety of games for everyone
Splitkick: If you’ve never played a Total War game, Shogun 2 is one of the most-universally praised games in the long-running series, and Creative Assembly has done a yeoman’s job in making it approachable yet deep. If, like me, you’ve been wanting to play it for quite some time, but haven’t installed the copy you bought on sale ages ago, do it before Rome 2 comes out this fall. Pardon me while I go assault Kyoto.
Ironhammers: We’ve now got a third member on our PC gaming podcast and will be broadcasting via Google Hangouts On Air, once a week. The format stays roughly the same for now, but new segments are dripping their way into the show — and we added a ‘Topic of the Week’ segment, which this week was focused on the trials and tribulations of always online DRM.
