Pirates: Tides of Fortune vs Shogun: Total War
Pirates: Tides of Fortune
Pirates: Tides of Fortune , developed by Plarium, is one of the most successful, pirate-themed MMO strategy game on Facebook. In this game, you’ll need to recruit a somewhat reliable motley of pirates, build your island paradise into a pirate stronghold and defend your haven from the Spanish fleet as well as from other obviously-salty pirate captains. Discover new technologies to get ahead of the pack or band together with other pirate captains to take over large parts of the map.Taking up piracy in Plarium’s Pirates: Tides of Fortune is not for the soft-hearted or the weak-willed. If you think you've got the chops, then we want you! Come join your crew and conquer the seven seas today!
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.