Total War: Shogun 2
8.7
Platforms
- PCMar 15, 20118.7playscore8.925 Critics8.924.4K Players
25 critic reviews · 7 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition crafts a deep experience.
Charles Hartford · Oct 12, 2026 Reviewed on PCRead full review - In my review for Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition, I'll take a look at the updated version of the classic title from Creative Assembly.
Ali Hashmi · Oct 12, 2026 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Creative Assembly trimmed some of the fat while boosting the flavor to make Total War: Shogun 2 one of the tastiest entries in the franchise yet. It’s much more accessible than the last few Total War games without sacrificing any depth or strategy. If you’ve been holding off on the series due to its complexity, Shogun 2 is a great place to jump right in. Simply put: it’s an awesome game.
NATHAN MEUNIER · Jun 24, 2012 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Total War: Shogun 2 is Creative Assembly's most polished game to date, and serves as a reaffirmation of the values that made the series the revelation it was more than a decade ago. It seems only fitting that those values were reaffirmed in a game based on the same setting as way back then.
Josh Tolentino · Mar 29, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - With Shogun 2, Creative Assembly proves it can move forward by taking a step back. There may not be any truly revolutionary additions here, but the tightly-focused map, extensive streamlining, and rich opportunities for strategic gameplay inject a welcome freshness into the series. Considering that its only glaring downside is the unstable multiplayer implementation, Shogun 2 may very well rank as the best of the Total War games.
Game Trailers · Mar 23, 2011 Reviewed on PC - If you’re a fan of military history and tactics, you will adore commanding thousands of troops in realistic battle simulations. If you like samurai, there are literally thousands here for you to play with. If you’ve never played a Total War game before, but have ever had even the slightest interest in strategy games, you owe it to yourself to pick up this game and see just how many times you can say “One more turn” into the wee hours of the night.
Nicholas Werner · Mar 22, 2011 Reviewed on PC - Finally, Total War usually takes a lot of knocks for overall performance and stability. Without bragging too much, I've been largely immune to the crashes that plagued previous versions, and that holds true for Shogun 2. Even after several hours, I've yet to have a single crash and, apart from the pathfinding problems, I've yet to encounter any game-killing bugs.
Steve Butts · Mar 22, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Shogun 2's delightful and all-encompassing world, coupled with its excellent production values, artful interface, deep strategic campaign, and thrilling real-time battles, makes it more impressive than its predecessor was a decade ago. Its only real flaw is the stability issue that occurred almost exclusively during multiplayer campaigns. Overall, Shogun 2 is just about everything you could want from a strategy game and is easily the apex of the Total War series up to this point.
Daniel Shannon · Mar 17, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Shogun 2 is an expertly tuned turn-based strategy game filled with exhilarating real-time tactical battles against a capable artificial intelligence or others online. With a gigantic multiplayer suite and fantastic visuals and sound, Shogun 2 is a high point for the Total War series, featuring a staggering attention to detail and immensely satisfying gameplay.
Charles Onyett · Mar 16, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Shogun 2 is a worthy successor to the original and shows that Creative Assembly has no desire to stop making great strategy games. It's wonderfully colourful and completely unique, and it should provide the usual hundreds of hours of gameplay for the hardcore. Those worrying about a retrograde step being taken for the series shouldn't have done so - it's a classic, no question.
David Brown · Mar 15, 2011 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
The player plays the role of both the clan leader and general, alternating between the campaign, where the player manages his land and armies turn by turn, and the battles, where the player takes control of the army on the battlefield in real-time. In the campaign, the player needs to oversee the development of settlements, military production, economic growth, and technological advancement. The armies and units are organised and moved around the stylised campaign map by the player to carry out battles with other factions. In addition to fighting, the player is able to engage in diplomacy, political maneuvering and the use of special agents to gain the upper hand. Ninja and geisha are also present in the game as assassins and spies.
Developer: Creative Assembly