Publisher Sega has a dlc pack for Total War: Shogun 2 announced. The package is called ‘Fall of the Samurai’ and deals with the demise of the traditional samurai warrior at the hands of European and American influences.
In Fall of the Samurai is the player in 1863, dropped. The era of the samurai warrior is nearing its end, especially because the old man with the sword surpassed by more modern weapons, mostly developed in Europe and America. To the player the choice between the side of the modern, imperial power, or the traditional shogunate, while the Boshin war at the point of outbreak.
The dlc, which is for march 2012 on the calendar, introduces besides a new story, new units and six new playable factions. Players will be on the battlefield, including gatling guns, US Marines and British Royal Marines encounter. In addition, players will be four new historical battle re-enactment, and the multiplayer-mode a major upgrade, though it is not yet known what the update actually entails.
Fall of the Samurai is an expansion to Total War: Shogun 2, but can also be played by players of the original is not in possession. In a Monday sent statement describes Sega Fall of the Samurai as a ‘large-scale, standalone expansion’. There are two ways to be interpreted. It can be a stand-alone expansion, where you have Shogun 2 so don’t need, or to a extension as a separate product is bought in Steam, but for which you have Shogun 2 need. Tweakers.net has Sega for clarification asked, but still received no response.
