News

Total War Developer’s Approach To Metacritic May Be ‘Brutal’ But It Works

In an interview with Gamasutra, Tim Heaton, the studio director of Total War developer Creative Assembly, described their development process as Metacritic-focused and “brutal”.


March 26, 2012
PC

Total War: Shogun 2: The Fall Of The Samurai: The Kotaku Review

Or, as I should have called it, my review of the Great Colon War of 1864. In 2009, Creative Assembly released one of the greatest strategy games ever made. A year later, they had the cheek to release an expansion pack and try and pass it off as an all-new title. Skip ahead to 2011, they again released one of the greatest strategy games ever made.


December 20, 2011
PC

The Best Game Music Of 2011: Total War: Shogun 2

Total War: Shogun 2 may look and sound for all the world like the latest in a long line of reasonably bland strategy games. As most strategy games are. Removing the player from the action to such an abstract level tends to rob the genre of its potential to truly immerse you in the spirit of the war, time or place.


August 12, 2011
News

Total War Goes Back To Japan With New Expansion

After a range of teeny little downloadable content packs, Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2 will next month be getting its first serious expansion, called Rise of the Samurai.


May 12, 2011
News

New Alien Game Coming From The Guys Who Make… Total War

British studio Creative Assembly, best known for its work on the Total War franchise of PC strategy games, is currently developing a game based on Ridley Scott’s original 1979 horror masterpiece.


March 15, 2011
Uncategorized

Total War: Shogun 2 Shows You Can Go Home Again

While easily its most ambitious title to date, 2009′s Empire: Total War was also a rather divisive game for fans of Creative Assembly’s classic strategy series. Total War: Shogun 2 feels like a direct response to that.


December 7, 2010
News

Total War Series Still Flirting With Consoles

Creative Assembly’s Total War series is one of the few remaining blockbuster franchises on the PC that is, at heart, a truly PC game. That hasn’t stopped the developers from exploring how the game would work on a console.


June 15, 2010

Shogun 2: Total War’s E3 Screenshots

The Total War series returns later this year with Shogun 2: Total War, the sequel to the game that gave the venerable franchise its start.


June 4, 2010
In Real Life

What Is Your Favourite Total War?

Kotaku AU

There’s a new Total War coming, a sequel to the Creative Assembly’s original Shogun: Total War. But what’s the best Total War game?


June 3, 2010
News

New Total War Coming, Has A Taste For The Orient

Deciding that E3 was simply too far away to wait, Creative Assembly today took the wraps off the latest game in the Total War series: Shogun 2: Total War. Or, going by this video, Okami: Total War.