Empire: Total War Heaven

Hmm, if it goes down a year a day it will only get to the early 1800s by E3...

HK.. You silly goose it's the countdown for the end of the world. duh.

HK.. You silly goose it's the countdown for the end of the world. duh.

So they are going back in time to destroy the world when the countdown is finished?

So they are going back in time to destroy the world when the countdown is finished?

That is what it seems, my squire.

On a side note, I'd like a remake of Shogun TW!

Thank you to Scipii for this link:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/05/28/son-of-a-shogun-shogun-2-total-war/

[This message has been edited by Daelon (edited 05-28-2010 @ 03:21 PM).]

Kotaku reports that a Turkish gaming site leaked they had an appointment with Sega to talk about Shogun 2 at the E3. The post on the Turkish site has now been removed. (Which also is what the link Daelon provided tells you).

I have to say I don't believe that press release is genuine, some parts of it don't seem like what CA would write.

Also, CA posted this on their Twitter page:

In Spring it roams not. / Maybe eastern sun rises / Nor will it show guns

That seems to confirm that there won't be gunpowder and it definitely doesn't rule out Shogun 2. What's interesting is that it has the form of a Haiku, a Japanese form of poetry, which could hint at a setting in the Far East.

Honestly it doesn't necessarily have to be a redo of Shogun. There is so much history involving the eastern Asian countries that CA would have its hands full. 200AD with the three kingdoms is a place to start.

HK-

I would have to agree that the few points we've seen shows that the next game would possibly be a Shogun 2. You really nailed it with the line from their twitter page.

Discuss.

[This message has been edited by Daelon (edited 05-29-2010 @ 03:28 AM).]

If you access the flash object directly, it goes down to zero, though it probably doesn't mean anything:

http://www.totalwar.com/_landing_page/twTimerLarge.swf

According to the page source, the JS for it counts it down to 1730. I think they change it manually every day.

swfobject.embedSWF("_landing_page/twTimerLarge.swf", "timerFlash", "210", "439", "10.0.0.0", "",
                   {countTo: "1730"}, {wmode: "transparent", menu: "false"});

[This message has been edited by Primo (edited 05-29-2010 @ 09:37 AM).]

the increment it decreases by seems to getting smaller and smaller. I think its safe to say its not going to reach back to 200 bc, which means no Rome Total War 2. It definitely looks like its returning to Shogun.

The countdown also can't handle dates below zero, so Rome 2 does seem unlikely, or it would have to start at a later date like BI.

It's going to be a remake of Shogun.

pc.ign.com has a 'mystery trailer' posted featuring an elderly Japanese man painting Japanese symbols on Japanese paper, all the while speaking in Japanese. One of the discernible words is 'shogun', right near the start.

It's going to be a remake of Shogun.

I agree. Everything I have heard/seen is pointing towards Shogun which honestly is going to be perfect timing because of my new PC project this summer.

I'm waiting for the:
"We're only pulling you chains with the ol' Shogun thing guys! Its actually going to be WW1! Merry Christmas!"

And, the answer is: Shogun 2. Yep, guesses right chaps...

When are we going to make a Shogun2 thread so we can start spamming about it?