Rather confusing.

Such a great game. And fits your lifestyle! Or rather your available time to play.
You can play the map mode and make a few moves when you are out of time, and you can engage in the most player empowering real time strategy I've seen to do battle in the battle mode, which is where the real fun resides, in my opinion.
The looks are great, but not the most realistic game ever, but you have to consider that the goal of the devs is to put a real big army on screen, then you have to cut a bit on the graphics; even though, it looks really good.
I'm a sucker for the first Shogun, which was the one that grabbed me into the series, so I'm a little biased, but I really take this one as the best of the series, specially because you have an immersion in the cultural aspects of the old Japan that the other Total War games leave a bit aside. Even though, I miss many aspects from the first Shogun game, since they even provided a great guide on Sun Tzu tactics bundled with the game, and also rewarded those that applied those tactics best on the field.