Total War: Shogun 2 2011

Is it still worth playing?

Creative Assembly's 2011 strategy game for Windows, set in the Sengoku period of Japan, in which you lead one clan to defeat its rivals and become shogun. The campaign is turn based on a map of Japan, where you manage settlements, military, economy and technology, and battles are fought in real time, including naval and siege battles. Around the armies sit other tools. Agents such as ninja, geisha, metsuke and monks handle espionage and assassination. A research tree called Mastery of the Arts splits into Bushido, for military reforms, and the Way of Chi, for economic, religious and agent reforms. Religion matters too, since Shinto Buddhism and Catholicism affect unrest and which units you can recruit. Even the weather and seasons change battles and armies. With so many of these pulling on the result, each war is still a plan of many parts today.