for any rts fans out there

If anyone on here is into rts games they should check out shogun 2 total war picked it up today and have been working on the campaign for a while. It's much better than the previous entries, mainly because it feels so fresh. I began playing total war games since rome and they've been keeping with the same ui and such since then (I skipped Empire but I can't imagine it was that much different). Shogun 2 however has a completely different one it follows more of the style of japanese art of the 16th century for example instead of having a picture one of the soldiers in the unit to represent the unit on your screen they have a drawing of a samurai cavalry. They also got rid of the rebels, no more 5 or 6 turns of scrambling trying to grab provinces without consequence while they're still essentially unoccupied.

Haven't tried the online yet it seems cool apparently your general avatar guy can gain experience which effects how tough and influental he is in the battle sounds kind of cool but I usually get my ass kicked in online rts games so I rarely do that. I think that they do have an online co-op campaign though or something similar not entirely sure how it works.

Anyway just thought I'd throw it out there, games been getting great reviews but from what I've seen advertisement wise and such it's mostly slipping under the radar.

edit: Oh also worth mentioning not sure if I'm just rusty but this is seeming to be by far the hardest total war game in the series so far.

I want it. But my PC...

Yeah. I hope that I can have a new one by the end of the year, which will be my gaming rig.

Starcraft 2 is my only rts.

Dude honestly if you could run medieval 2 you can run this. Medieval 2 has a problem running on my laptop. What happens is if I run the campaign for an hour or so it overheats my computer and it auto-shutdowns 3 straight hours with shogun 2 and no such problem.

Edit and tom thats the rts's that I hated with a passion before I got into total war. Not starcraft but just the base/troop spam mid game compared to total war style where it's a set number of troops fighting. But with the recent total war love I'm starting to like them. I think it was my gateway rpg.

zachattack46 wrote:Dude honestly if you could run medieval 2 you can run this. Medieval 2 has a problem running on my laptop. What happens is if I run the campaign for an hour or so it overheats my computer and it auto-shutdowns 3 straight hours with shogun 2 and no such problem.

I am not saying I can't run it. (well I am on a mac) But SC2 is just in a compete different league then every other RTS.

I own Rome: Total War myself.

Mostly play Warhammer 40k:DOW.

ive always loved RTS's, except they never release any on Mac...

Zillah wrote:ive always loved RTS's, except they never release any on Mac...

The best RTS is already on mac. SC2 but yah it does suck.

Empire Earth is awesomesuace.
also...SoaSE

t-800 wrote:

Zillah wrote:ive always loved RTS's, except they never release any on Mac...

The best RTS is already on mac. SC2 but yah it does suck.

Starcraft the best?


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MARINE BALL!

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Warhammer 40k >>>>>>> that knock off starcraft.

Or do you wanna fight about it shorty?