Shogun 2 – Complete Edition was "not a Creative Assembly developed game," says Total War VP after it was pulled amid generative AI concerns

Creative Assembly has issued a statement regarding the use of generative AI in Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition, which led to the game's removal from sale last week . Total War vice president Roger Collum clarified that Shogun 2 – Complete Edition "was not a Creative Assembly developed game," and that it "wasn't subject to our same internal reviews and quality assurance." "We took our eyes off its external development, with all our teams focused on our next big projects," he wrote on the Total War subreddit .