60 Second Review of…
Shogun: Total War: The Warlord Edition
Tom's Review: Nevermind the Mongol invasion stuff,
which includes shattered game balance, 13th century hand grenades,
and a dull sleek campaign in which Kublai Khan pours into Japan
like a steady ethnic hemorrhage. The whole thing is pretty goofy.
But the true value of this expansion is in the things it does to
Shogun's original campaign game, which was at once its weak point
and its strong point. It was an excellent way to breathe significance
into those spectacular battles. But it was also an occasionally
unholy mess that inevitably nose-dived into a mire of tedious unit
management. This expansion salvages Shogun's single player campaign
from its ambitious scope by adding a host of important changes,
updates, and tweaks. Creative Assembly has earned a lot of goodwill
with their excellent design and steady efforts to patch the game's
flaws, but this finishing touch — which is what Shogun should
have been all along — is only available by buying the expansion.
Read Tom's full
review of Shogun: The Warlord Edition on Gamespot.
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Creative Assembly
Genre: Real time wargaming with a strategic shell
Requirements: P233, 64MB RAM, 650MB hard drive space
August 24, 2001
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