Got an email today telling me my copy of Shogun had been dispatched.. cant wait for this one.. Love the total war series. Seems to be dispatched early to me though. I thought it wa out next friday in teh UK.

that is early... next Tuesday for the US... I've decided to hold off on that one... I want it...bad... just too many at once. (Homefront and Crysis 2, ToW3 Korea and then 2 racing games.)

Yeah, i understand holding off on it.. having played the demo it is more of the same but seems much more accessable than Empire and Napoleon. If i pick up Homefront it will likely be on the 360 but even then im not convinced by how much playtime i will give it. I enjoyed Frontlines but it always felt like a BF clone to me.

I don't know much about ToW Korea but if it is full on strategy then i'll pass as the Total War series is about as deep as i can get without feeling overwhelmed with how to actually play it. Crysis 2 holds no interest to me and NfS shift 2 is a wait on reviews for me to make sure they fixed the sliding around corners feel i cant stand. Nascar would be a buy for me but it looks like no european release for it which is a let down

Yeah I'm on the fence about buying this one this weekend or not, I pre-ordered Empire and it was really buggy when it shipped and by the time I came back to play it post patches it was a $25 title... never really got the bug for it like the previous titles either.

I loved the first Shogun, so am likely to love this one, just hoping buying it on release isn't another buggy mess that will be much cheaper by the time they fix it.

Mine arrived this morning courtesy of Zavvi, I'd set aside today for a reinstall of BOBII and to set up TIR for it but hopefully I'll get a look at it sometime. Game overload as I've discovered Mount & Blade: Warband via the AAR forum and its been taking up the time bigstyle.

S!

PS: Just checked the TWC forum apparantly you can't install the game until the 15th so I don't have to rearrange my schedule.

Can't install it until 15th.. nah, that sucks. However it's not an issue because mine didn't turn up this morning anyway so Monday / Tuesday it is. It must be a worldwide release of 15th for it then.

It seems like the UK are moving away (for large titles anyway) from a Friday release to a universal release.

Ok good reviews on Shogun2 coming out now:
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/reviews/59467/Total-War-Shogun-2-Review

I'm officially off the fence and just pre-ordered on steam, really looking forward to it, I loved the first one.

Now that was a great - and honest - review.

Shogun2 manual is up on steam:
http://cdn.steampowered.com/Manuals/34330/SHO2_PC_UK_DD.pdf

Not a very long manual, but good to see what's changed from other TW games.

Man, that is some manual (not). But I guess the Encyclopaedia is there to pick up the slack.

These days you should not expect too much in this area but it is cool that Battlefront has produced a 200 page (!) manual for CMBN.