In honour of the 10th anniversary of the series Creative Assembly's Mike Simpson has been giving an exclusive screening of Shogun 2 along with a talk about the series at Edinburgh Interactive.

During the presentation Simpson gave an interesting explanation of the Total War series' origins.

Simpson revealed: "We didn't start out to build a game. Shogun: Total War started its life as an based on the martial arts TV series Monkey."

"Then, along came Command and Conquer," he continued," and we thought that it would be easier to make a real-time strategy game than a high-end RPG."

By Ewan Aiton