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Shogun - Total Rip Off Edition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: September 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I Love the orignial Shogun, but this is too much. My poor unsuspecting wife bought me this for my birthday and what did we get? This is hardly an upgrade over the original - a couple of new unit types and a silly mongol campaign FOR THE FULL PRICE OF THE ORIGINAL GAME???. Where is the upgrade to the diplomatic room - instead it's gone and we're left with unfulfilling text. Where is the upgrade to support single user castle sieges? Instead there are just some corny castles dotted around the scenery without purpose or use. How about enhanced graphical renditions of the units? How about an enhanced story line? This is just the same old game repackaged to rip you off. For shame.

Grossly overrated

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 18
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sorry guys, I know this will get me called names but I rushed out & bought the original Shogun the day it came out. I had high expectations. It was one of my "most wanted" games and the reviews were uniformly great... but...

It's a _very_ poor strategy game. Risk style map with a little bit of (one) resource management Japan is also a pretty poor map for compelling strategy, (hold one front attack on the other until you get to one end of the map then move your forces to the other front & sweep up the rest of the map not much of a challenge) - but you're saying - the 3D battles... are pretty to look at but the control system is appalling. Try lining up two units of archers to present a united front 2 men deep to the enemy, tear you hair out with frustration. Then do the same thing in "Ground Control" in 2 seconds flat. The number of individually controllable units per battle is tiny (8 if I recall correctly) so you can't even outmanouever your opponent strategically to bring a huge army to bear & reduce casualties, nope, by half way through the game everyone is tooling about with full strength armies so it turns into a glorified game of scissors-paper-stone.

In summary, great in theory, lousy in practice I played it (solidly) for about a week before I got disillusioned (it doesn't get better) - I gave my copy away to a charity. Be prepared for a disapointment if you listen to the other reviews. The emperor has no clothes on & it's about time it was said (and I know other people who have played the game & think the same about it too).

This is the lamest game ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

At first I was impressed with this sorry excuse for a game, but after playing it for a week, I win every time when I play against the computer. But really what is the worst is that the AI of the game [stink]. It just is worthless. So in a...attempt to make it more challenging, it cheats. You ever charge 3 heavy calvary with 60 of your heavy calvary only to be beaten because the 3 heavy calvary you attacked just happened to have their daimyo? Come on, how stupid is that? There are a million bugs the game uses to get an advantage, which is a real shame, because the frustration it builds just does not make the game worth it. It is also a joy to get your troops stuck on the side of a mountain and it is just impossible to manuerver them anymore. Never has a game had such potential just to [stink].

Dont Buy this Garbage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: April 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You've spent hours building a massive army...
You've finally forced the A.I. into a descisive battle...

Your calavry is set to out flank the enemy Archers...
Your spearmen are set to take the charge of the enemy horsemen..
Your bowmen have taken the high ground, ready to rain death on your foe...
Crash.....

This game is RIDDLED with random crashes. Go to fight a battle..crash..go to save a game..crash..go to load a game..crash..

Even after patching it, it crashes more often then the stock market.

Dont buy it. It makes me a little unsure of buying Medevial total war if they left this product so under supported.

Delays, delays, delays...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: July 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure that this upgrade will be one of high magnitude, however the production and development for this product is not. The first upgrade was posted to be out a month ago and they decided that we would want the full expansion pack at one time. Personally I would have enjoyed being entertained by the first upgrade while I waited for the larger expansion. Now they have delayed the release yet again. I'm sorry but this is not how you run a successful company. When you set a release date you had better make it even if this means overtime for the crew. To delay causes desertion in the buying population and not as many people will buy now than before. Also I do concur that they need to keep the original game separate from the expansion. Thanks.

Misleading Advertisement

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: February 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The advertising page lists Windows XP as one of the platforms that this can run on. However, when I got the product it listed Windows 95, 98, 2000 or ME. NT is not supported. A user on XP Home Edition in group Limited cannot run this game.

Info You Could Use

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: June 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is not a review, but a response to the first entry: Dude, don't worry, you can buy the expansion exclusively if you already own Shogun. It will be available from Electronic Arts the same day the full release is set to come out. And it will be priced significantly lower than the full release.

reviews all wrong

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 31
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Notice that all of these reviews are referring to the wrong game??? I'm looking for reviews on Shogun Total War and these reviews are about Medieval Total War. Hey, Amazon, get it together!

Annoyed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: June 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Obviously I haven't played the expansion yet. I just want to let EA know that I'm more than a bit upset that they're bundling the original game with the expansion and charging us Shogun fans full price. I love the original, but I'm offended by them trying to make me buy it twice.

Really Annoyed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: August 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you already own the original: you can buy the expansion pack for the game ( at 1/2 the price of the "Warlord Addition" including shipping not to shabby ) directly from EA. Thus far that is the only way to avoid getting more for your money by the publisher and re-buying a game you already own.

On the other... hand this is amoung the best games I have ever played. I hope EA can re-use the engine and the idea for other venues in the future. If you don't already own the orignal the Warlord Addition is a good deal.

Rating- Game: 5 stars. Electronic Art's Marketing department : 1 Star Average : 3 stars.

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