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Japan had become a united and prosperous nation, that opened its doors to the Western world, and even began to adopt some of the advanced technology (relatively speaking) it offers. FoTS is the first game in the Total War series that allows players to take advantage of such technology, including steamers, trains and even machineguns. Of course, all this technology is nice, but thriving peace periods do not offer much challenge for shrewd strategy gamers. Fortunately, the peace and economic boom do not last long, and soon a new Shogunate questions the Emperor’s right to rule over the Japanese Empire, and declares war on him.Īt the beginning of the campaign the player has to choose sides in a military conflict – whether to join the armies of the emperor, or the forces of Shogunate. There are three tribes to choose from on either side, each with different initial difficulty level and benefits. From here on the game is pretty standard, and anyone who played Shogun 2 before will get the hang of things very quickly. What about those who did not to the opportunity to play the aforementioned strategy game, you ask? Well, FoTS is an excellent entry point for anyone who always wanted to enter the world of strategy games, but was concerned about the steep learning curve. Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall of The Samurai takes place about 400 years after the events in the original game. Veterans of the Total War series are probably already familiar with the elements that made it one of the most successful strategy game series of all time, but for those who have never experienced it, let me elaborate: Shogun 2 is a turn-based strategy game with real-time battles, that puts the player in the shoes of a military general which must expand his territory by means of diplomacy or war. Fall of The Samurai doesn’t change this formula much, but adds to it and builds on it with new units, more advanced technological levels, several significant changes to naval battles and of course a completely different story. But is it really worth going back all the way to Japan of old just for a few new units? Well, FoTS offers a little more than that. As befits a great expansion, FoTS does not re-invent the wheel, but rather refreshes the familiar gameplay, and innovate where it needs to. Fall of The Samurai, the latest expansion of Total War: Shogun 2, takes us back to the late feudal period of Japan and presents us with one simple task (well, maybe not that simple) – choose sides in the war for the future of Japan and wipe out the opposition off the island.