Over a week after a so-called “updated, enhanced, and complete version” of Total War: Shogun 2 was released in such a disastrous state that Sega immediately pulled it from sale , Total War developers Creative Assembly have finally addressed the situation. In a post made to the company’s forum , vice president of its Total War division Roger Collum explains that the remastered game “did not meet the bar” and says that like players, CA, too, are “angry and disappointed” by the release. He also attempts to pin down CA’s position on the use of AI, but at every stage seems very keen to redirect the blame.

Shogun 2 , widely considered to be one of the best strategy games of all time, had some pretty terrible damage done to its reputation with the release of what was called the Complete Edition. Receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews from Steam users for looking ghastly and running poorly, it was also quickly discovered to be riddled with AI-upscaled versions of some of the game’s original art.…