Total War: SHOGUN 2
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Real-time battles of massed samurai and ashigaru clashing with swords, spears, bows, and early firearms; soldiers fall with some blood, but combat is army-scale and not focused on individual gore.
The setting is a civil-war era of betrayal, assassination, and mass death in battle; enemy agents can be captured and executed as a campaign mechanic.
Seppuku, the ritual suicide of a samurai general, appears as a cultural mechanic and story element, presented historically rather than graphically.
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What it is
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is a strategy game set in 16th-century feudal Japan during the Warring States period, blending turn-based empire management with real-time battles. Players lead a samurai clan, building settlements, managing an economy and religion, conducting diplomacy, and using ninja, geisha, and other agents for scouting, sabotage, and assassination, all with the goal of unifying Japan as Shogun. The core content is warfare: commanding large armies of samurai and peasant soldiers in sword, spear, bow, and cannon combat on land and sea, with on-screen blood as units die but no close-up gore. The game touches on period-authentic themes of betrayal, execution of captured agents, and the samurai practice of seppuku, all handled at a strategic rather than graphic level. There are no sexual content, substances, or purchases to speak of; online multiplayer battles and campaigns support text and voice chat with other players.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as historical military strategy and the honor-bound world of the samurai, casting warfare, assassination, and ritual suicide as elements of the Sengoku period rather than sensationalizing them. Death occurs at the scale of armies and political maneuvering, and the tone is that of a serious historical war simulation.
Details
- Developer
- CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Released
- Mar 15, 2011
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