It’s hard to believe that Rome: Total War is almost four years old, let alone that the Total War series is not new anymore. Shogun: Total War debuted in 2000, was an instant hit, and Creative Assembly has never really paused since. Aside from a couple of ill-advised forays into action gaming (Spartan: Total Warrior […]
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Rome: Total War (2004)
April 28th, 2008 · 17 Comments · Ancients, Creative Assembly, Feature:Anc, Retro, Review
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More Info On Empire
April 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on More Info On Empire · Creative Assembly, Napoleonics, Preview
There’s an interview with Creative Assembly’s James Russell up at IGN that adds some new details and the usual pre-release puffery. Things to note: The scale is a lot greater than previous Total War titles. The campaign map now encompasses not only the whole of Europe and the middle-East, but also North America and the […]
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Kingdoms Patch
April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Creative Assembly, Patches
I loved the Kingdoms expansion for Medieval 2: Total War. It’s the model of what an expansion should be, I think. Now it has a patch. Among the fixes: – Dead wives no longer produce children in the Crusades campaign. So no more zombie babies.
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Total War: Kingdoms Review
December 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Creative Assembly, Gameshark, Medieval, Review
My review of Medieval II: Total War – Kingdoms is up at Gameshark. I loved this expansion. As good as Medieval II is, the Kingdoms pack adds more than enough variety, flavor and cleverness to keep you hooked for a while. There is some really nice stuff going on here, and adding the SDK means […]
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Unintended Consequences
October 22nd, 2007 · 7 Comments · Creative Assembly, Design, Modding
For the last week or so I’ve been playing the Europa Barbarorum mod for Rome: Total War. Like many mods, it aims for realism before anything else, even to the point of giving each faction an overly “correct” name. Greeks, for example, are the Koinon Hellenon. The “rebel” controlled cities are given the somewhat anachronistic […]
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PCGUK on Empire: Total War
August 28th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
The PCGamer UK preview of the upcoming Empire: Total War is online, courtesy of Tim Edwards. Here are the highlights. Formations are the new rock-paper-scissors of warfare. It’s all about arranging men in such a way as to present the most possible muskets at the line of enemy advance. “A square of men beats a […]
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