Good game but lacking in the Multiplayer
Shogun 2 takes us back before empire.
Meaning.. Buildings/unit costs are up so you cant create a huge armie in 3 turns, like napoleon in witch you could build good units at the start (like light infantry). You start out whit militia and to get like say "katana units" u need to resurge in to swords.
The resurching is improved in my opinion: No more 4 diffrent regions for example were you build 4 schools to resurge naval,land and economy at the same time.. no here we got mastery of arts, you can only resurge 1 at a time for economics or war (way of bushido or way of the chi)
The campaign map is awesome , i feared it would be small compared to the last total wars. but i think its the same size of napoleon Europe ( a little smaller)
And they finally did the Generals good. You start whit 1 star and the more battles you play the more stars you get. And whit every star comes a skill witch you can click. And so is your Clan Leader, he gets honer witch has meaning on the campaign map whit the other clans (i dont rly know the whole meaning of the honer YET) Except you need to risk his ass in the field to give him honer
And then the multiply part...
Campaign is ofc AWESOME, though it has some bugs (save allot) because it crashes from time to time but the turns are really well done. If someone else is having its turn you can still build and do some stuff (except for diplomacy and moving armies)
The multilayer battles are done now whit skills and unlocks
Meaning... someone can rampage trough your army because he had more time in playing the game so he could lvl up faster, unlock better units, skills. People in clans can actually get extra skills on there veteran units... So this game is NOT really made for the casual gamer. And competitive multiplayer can get a pain in the ass if you have a life.....
There are ofc classic battles(in witch you have every unit/unlock) But they have nothing to do whit lvl up you avatar. And sinds people these days are stats junkies they prob wont play UNranked games
So final conclusion : Awesome old school total war singleplayer experience and extremely lacking multiplayer (except ofc, the campaign)