92 thoughts on “Total War: Shogun 2 – Angry Review”

• Richard Hoek
  May 15, 2012 at 8:51 am

  Although i love strategy game now and then i would like one on console for a change like red alert did

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• Richard Hoek
  May 15, 2012 at 8:46 am

  HAHAHA that jap voice over and JOE’s face haahaha

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• Hattori 1 Fan
  April 7, 2012 at 7:40 am

  it was indeed a worth while game, i can’t wait for Rome 2, or even China Total War …or something like that XD

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• wiggly
  March 4, 2012 at 9:21 pm

  why was that stuff he was mumbling at the start, i hope it wasnt a mockery of japanese!

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• Scorpion42
  January 14, 2012 at 8:50 pm

  Why simply upgrade the CGI? Getting real actors, real costumes and real sets with real props would be much more interesting and maybe even cheaper.

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• Jason
  December 27, 2011 at 4:37 am

  The complete opposite happened with my ally. I started the game with them bordering me so I traded with them and eventually allied them. Then when I ordered them to help me defeat the Shoni they got their ass handed to them, but then they managed to take back their fort. They then proceeded to grow strong and completely dominate the whole lower island part of Japan leaving me with only 2 provinces! I now have to use the sea to get around.

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• mizgog
  December 22, 2011 at 5:22 pm

  anyone that wants to play shogun 2 with me?? send me a message on steam the name on steam is: mizgog267

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• Giglomesh 0 Fans
  October 18, 2011 at 1:51 pm

  Joe you do know that you can play campain together with a friend all Shogun 2 does is make it coop which was not hard to do in napoleon.

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• Holddisforme
  August 19, 2011 at 10:33 pm

  Hey Joe, I was wondering what are the specs on your computer?

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• KP
  July 14, 2011 at 6:19 pm

  There is a mod for Medieval 2 Total War that, A> I had nothing to do with, and B> I think you will enjoy:

  http://www.moddb.com/mods/third-age-total-war

  btw this review is not as funny as your other reviews, but I still enjoyed it!

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• david3430
  July 13, 2011 at 4:19 am

  the 3 best strategy game i have played in my life. great review joe,thumbs up

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• Smojoeleethaxorpro
  July 10, 2011 at 9:38 am

  This game looks great

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• blackwel 0 Fans
  June 29, 2011 at 8:15 pm

  I think Angry Joe should do something totally different and do a review for the Mods in games instead of just doing full fledged reviews on the whole game, but what the game created to the community.

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• Stefan
  June 15, 2011 at 5:54 pm

  I strongly disagree about Napoleon and Empire total war
  those games are very fun and i really enjoyed them.
  There was only one bug i came to see and that was at the siege battles (not all of them)

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• Dotor Kube
  May 28, 2011 at 1:04 am

  I played the Rome Total war and loved it.

  Last game I bought was Empire TT and it was a buggy shit pot made by the english for dipshit americans like me.

  I was intodated with a spyware program and recorded what I did on the net back to these english baster to sell. One turn on the map would take 20 to 40minutes as the computer thinks… While some of the battles are interesting… the naval battlers were bug filled to the point you could make a few cheap tactics to win every time.

  I will never buy another game from this company and i would suggest no one does either.

  The one thing that bug the shit out of me was the indians such as the plains nations building cannons and having vast gun manufacturing plants. You can not make a gun in a burch bark hut or bore out a bronze cannon with out tool steel drills the size of your mom’s head. I started exploting these as well, like when i would need a border nation between myself and a luntic smaller nation which was boarding france. I would give the terrority space away to the eskimos and have the eskimos build up in germany, totally detroying all major cities into the indian city build. The eskimos would build up there horses, cannons and gun shock troops attacking everyone but myself. The insanity of this game was so vast that even trade was massively effected. After awhile i just stopped expanding and just took over major captials and every major trade route area. Yet another insanty of this game was wave after wave of rebels. Where would rebels get guns,cannons, and horses that take years to build?

  You may say this game is good but i was ripped off. I am not going to pay for this game.

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• VayneisOP
  May 23, 2011 at 11:51 pm

  This is an awesome game with only one major flaw: the way the campaign plays out. There is literally only one strategy that works, and thats just start conquering EVERYBODY. I tried to play a diplomatic game, researching all the diplomacy art really quickly, but still the entire island turned against me at the drop of a hat. But my biggest problem is when this happens where your not playing the Date, because everyone else just get DESTROYED when the island hates u because they all make friends against u because “an enemy of my enemy is my friend” so they all send army after army, send naval invasions into the back of your area where u have no armies, and just destroy u. So far the Date have been the best to play with because they really only have 1 border which saves u SO MUCH TIME. Still, i almost died twice due to naval invasions. U LIED TO US JOE!!!!!! However overall they were few so i can see where Joe came from when he said this, but I dont understand why they dont happen more often. Throwing an army into the back of a huge empire can really break its back, and like i said they nearly wiped me out. Altogether an amazing game. HUGE VALUE. I have like 120+ hours and Im still having a ton of fun.

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• Planescaped
  May 6, 2011 at 2:06 pm

  What I mean by lost their way is that they removed a bunch of units and even the Hattori clan unless you bought the collectors edition.

  Darthmod fixes a lot of the AI and diplomacy and the unit mod adds back in all the units Creative assembly removed, (maybe to charge later for DLC who knows anymore) such as Loan sword Ashiguru, Ronins, Matchlock warrior monks as well as monk calvary and hero’s.

  It also adds in some new units as well.

  http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=429938 —Unit mod.

  http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=437591 —Darthmod

  Those 2 are must have mods that fix a lot of the problems with the game. With those 2 mods I’d agree with the 9/10 rating. Vanilla I’d give 7.5

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