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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.
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.
After the release of the Shogun Pack for Team Fortress 2 – tied to the release of The Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2 – it didn’t take long for the TF2 community to extract its true worth: recreating kung-fu movie and anime tropes like the high-flying mid-air sword fight.
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Team Fortress 2′s offering Japan-themed hats and swords for all eight classes as part of a tie-in with Total War: Shogun 2, which is due for release next week. There are three ways to get the items. One, of course, is to preorder Shogun 2 on Steam. [Team Fortress 2]
