PC Powerplay Magazine March 2012

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When is a sequel not a sequel? Or, to put it another way, when is an expansion pack not an expansion pack? The answer : when it's an expandalone. That hideous yet amusing portmanteau is how the Creative Assembly is dubbing Fall of the Samurai, the next, uh... installment in Total War series. It's not a sequel to Shogun 2 since it uses the same engine and mostly just adds content, a new setting several hundred years after Shogun 2, new units, new clans, a larger campaign map, foreign powers to deal with, and so on, as well as some crucial gameplay tweaks. But it's not an expansion pack either since it is a standalone release that means you do not need the original game in order to play Fall. So, yeah, it's and expansion that stands alone, an expandalone.

Of course, it's not the first expandalone. Last year saw the Retribution add-on for Dawn of War 2 released as a standalone title. GTA IV's Episodes, The Lost and Damned and the Ballad of Gay Tony, are playable even without the original game. Go back two decades and Origin released The Serpent Isle as Ultima VII : Part 2. A whole stack of new content built on the same engine as Ultima VII, and continuing the same story, it was perhaps the very first expandalone.

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