Goodgame Empire vs Shogun: Total War
Goodgame Empire
Goodgame Empire is an award-winning, medieval-themed MMO strategy game developed by Goodgame Studios. In this game, you'll get to build your own kingdom from the ground up, establish an efficient economy, and assemble an army to expand your empire's borders. Forge alliances with other friendly players and work together to dominate the map, bringing more territories under the influence of your alliance. Aside from being available across platforms, the game also has a fun cartoonish look that sets it somewhat apart from other browser MMO strategy games. Sounds like a game you'd like to play? Well, assume your role as the lord of the castle and set up your medieval regime now!Shogun: Total War
Shogun: Total War is the first original title in a legendary, 15-year (and counting), award-winning, real-time strategy game series that currently spanned across multiple themes and settings. However, this game is set in ancient Japan - 1542 to be exact - when the last shogunate collapsed and the entire nation is thrown into conflict as multiple daimyo (faction leaders) vie for the most powerful seat. To make things worst, Europeans have also ventured to island at this point, bringing guns, religion and disease - factors that you'll eventually have to deal with if you are to attain the people's support and conquer the whole of Japan.The gameplay in Shogun: Total War is akin to Rise of Nations in the sense that each battle is carried out in real-time, but moving your troops on the world map is pretty much turn-based (Risk-style). However, unlike the latter, the battle itself is purely consisted of the actual fighting rather than having you build a base and amassing resources and an army. Instead, Shogun lets you view the entire battlefield from any view you like and send commands to your troops as the battle unfolds. This is basically something that's unheard of until this game came along.
Shogun: Total War may be an old game by modern standards, and due to this, many players might simply opt for its sequel in order to have a taste of that this game has to offer. However, if you truly want to experience the very first of the Total War series, this is the game to play.