The Total War: Shogun 2 Gold Edition will offer the award-winning Shogun 2 and Fall of the Samurai as well as the independent campaign Rise of the Samurai, delivering a unique mix of addictive turn-based campaign gameplay and epic real-time battles on land and sea. In Shogun 2, master the art of war in the darkest age of Japan. Ten legendary warlords fight for supremacy as conspiracies and conflicts wither the empire. Rise of the Samurai is set 400 years before Shogun 2 and is based on the Gempei War, a conflict between six legendary clans of the Taira, Minamoto and Fujiwara families. It culminated in the first Shogunate, and the rise of the Samurai as the ruling class. Fall of the Samurai is the stand-alone expansion to Total War: Shogun 2 and explores the conflict between the Imperial Throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan, 400 years after the events of the original game. It features a dramatic clash of Samurai culture with the explosive power of modern weaponry.