Rise of the samurai review mods#

Rise of the samurai review mods#

Much of this broken AI behavior can also be 'patched' by the use of mods such as DarthMod. There are definitely ways you can cheese the AI in both games to force them to behave in certain ways, but most of these methods take some pretty significant manipulation and are not intended features (unlike artillery). In Shogun 2, however, I find that you cannot reliably force the AI to do anything in particular, and you have to think on your feet much more and adapt to the circumstance. But these battles tend to be very one-sided and are not very tactical or intense. This forces the AI to attack you, allowing you to set up in the most defensable position for your army even if you initiated the battle, all the while taking significant potshots out of your enemy's army. One significant strategy in FotS is to have bigger/better/more artillery than your opponent. You can force yourself to play in different ways and with different types of units yourself, but there's very little that is unique about the clans which forces you to play different. In FotS there is pretty much a single ideal army and tactic for every clan that doesn't really have much variance even between early and late game. This makes the game feel very different every time you play, combined with how the AI will expand differently from campaign to campaign.

In Shogun 2 you are forced to really use your clan's unique units and abilities, particularly when you play on harder and harder difficulties. I don't play multiplayer much, but as far as the campaign goes: