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Creative Assembly: 70% Of Games ‘Aren’t Good Enough’
Do developers spend enough time prototyping new design ideas? I’m not a developer, so I’m probably not the best placed person to answer that question, but Renaud Charpentier, lead designer on Total War Battles: Shogun believes that major studios don’t do enough experimentation in the early stages of development, which results in video games that function well, but don’t inspire.
Praise Be To Mars, Total War: Rome II Marches Onto PCs Next Year
It’s been eons — in gaming time, at least — since The Creative Assembly’s Roman variant of the Total War strategy games let millions of players become Caesars. A sequel’s finally been confirmed today and Total War: Rome II will be sporting a new graphics engine to make the global domination shinier than ever. You’ll get your chance to run the ancient world’s most powerful armies sometime next year.
Shogun 2′s Scale Is Pretty Incredible
Shogun 2 Total War is released this week on PC, and we’ve been a little guilty of neglecting what looks like an incredible game in terms of scale. This multiplayer walkthrough goes into quite a bit of detail regarding what can be expected from the online section of the game. Worth a gander.
Your Computer Must Be This Powerful To Run Shogun: Total War 2
Get Your Fill Of Shogun 2: Total War
Sega and the Creative Assembly’s sharp-looking Shogun 2: Total War – or Total War: Shogun 2, depending on who you ask – will get a limited edition release next year, but today it gets a beefy video preview of deep tactical gameplay.
The Story Behind Shogun 2: Total War
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With so much focus put on the technical prowess of The Creative Assembly’s Shogun 2: Total War, it’s easy to overlook the game’s story, steeped in rich Japanese history.
Checking Out Shogun 2: Total War’s Flexible AI In Action
In this video, The Creative Assembly’s Land Battle programmer Ingimar Gudmunsson and studio communications manager Kieran Brigden talk us through a night battle in Shogun 2: Total War.
Shogun 2: Total War Really Looks This Good?
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The Creative Assembly knows how to make Japanese real-time strategy very attractive, going by this new Shogun 2: Total War cinematic trailer that was “captured in-game.” Based on Shogun 2′s gorgeous artwork and screens, it shouldn’t be that surprising.
