Civilization Revolution vs Shogun: Total War
Civilization Revolution
Civilization Revolution is a turn based strategy game where you take a simple stone age man and build up your own empire. Here you are able to build up your civilization to amazing heights, and even try to take to the stars and colonize new planets. In your way stand the opposing city states, who as you progress will try to stop you. You can of course just dominate them all to win too.As with many games you will need to spend your time exploring, gathering and preparing your empire. Increase your technology levels, farm materials to build skyscrapers and much more with a huge range of activities to keep you entertained. With many of the aspects from the series you love, with a new vibrant gameplay there is so much fun to be had here.
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.