Goodgame Empire vs Total War: Shogun 2
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!Total War: Shogun 2
Total War: Shogun 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to the groundbreaking original game, Shogun: Total War. Set in the darkest age of Feudal Japan right after the collapse of a unified government (in 16th century to be exact), many warring clans have risen through the chaos and out of them, 10 legendary warlords, or Daimyos, have their eyes set on the coveted position of shogun, but only one of them will be able to reunite a warring island.The gameplay is pretty similar to the original game. The campaign map features a turn-based, Risk-style gameplay while the actual battles themselves (rendered in glorious 3D) are played out in real-time. However, this time around, the game is filled with a ton of new units, including massive warships, as well as a more in-depth strategic gameplay based on the ancient texts in Sun Tzu's Art of War. There are multi-stage sieges, unique hero units who can be improved through standard RPG methods, and that the campaign map is now in 3D as well and can be rotated whichever way you like.
The campaign in Total War: Shogun 2 can also be played cooperatively (2 players), but if you truly want to test your skills, you can engage in epic online battles with up to 8 other players.
This game does the very first Total War game justice and is the sort of game that fans of the series would greatly enjoy. Also, considering that the game came out more than 5 years ago, the graphics in the game is still pretty relevant today... so I guess, that's another bonus.