A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?
The second in a trilogy and sequel to the award-winning Total War: WARHAMMER, Total War: WARHAMMER II brings players a breathtaking new narrative campaign, set across the vast continents of Lustria, Ulthuan, Naggaroth and the Southlands. The Great Vortex Campaign builds pace to culminate in a definitive and climactic endgame, an experience unlike any other Total War title to date.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
A free-to-play, team-based strategy game, thrusting players into battles of epic proportions. Play as a hero of the past, command your army in 10v10 battles on ancient battlefields. Make yourself a legend.
The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics, Total War: ATTILA casts players back to 395 AD. A time of apocalyptic turmoil at the very dawn of the Dark Ages.
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battle.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 features enhanced full 3D battles via land and sea, which made a name for the series, as well as the tactical campaign map that many refer to as the heart and soul of Total War.
Whether you play as the legendary general or against him, the outcome of war can never be guaranteed. The course of history relies on your ability to lead your troops through the most intense battles as never seen before in a Total War game.
Empire: Total War takes the Total War franchise to the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment a time of political upheaval, military advancements, and radical thought, captured in stunning detail.
The indirect sequel to 2002’s Medieval: Total War, Medieval 2 is set between years 1080 and 1530 and focuses on medieval warfare, religion and politics in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Set during the rule of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, Rome: Total War is a real-time tactics and turn-based strategy game that takes place across Europe, North Africa and the Near East.
From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, expand your influence and secure your reign as you build a dynastic empire to stretch across four centuries.
Set against the backdrop of the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States) period from the 15th to the beginning of the 17th century, Shogun: Total War is a real-time tactics and turn-based strategy game with a strong focus on historical authenticity.
The Total War teams have been very busy with some very exciting stuff in the time since we last updated you, and with E3 on the horizon you can be sure there’s plenty to look forward to.
Without further ado, let’s turn you over to the teams themselves…
It’s been a long hard winter for the Total War teams, but there’s not been a lot of hibernating with Empire Divided, Tomb Kings and Desert Kingdoms all sprouting through the snow. What’s more, there’s a new crop of releases just starting to blossom, and even a new team being added for an interesting new project.
Can you feel that chill wind still blowing from the North though?
With Mortal Empires released last week, there’s a hotfix on the way for that Chaos Invasion issue some people are having. We want to make sure that’s sorted out before we add more Total War: WARHAMMER content.
However, in this week’s blog we wanted to take a moment to look at our Historical projects; because you’re about to hear a lot more about them.
The next year is packed with new stuff and, as we ramp up for some big announcements, I took a moment to chat with our history project directors; Maya, Jack and Janos…
I sent a few questions to the fastest man in Wales, Mr. Third Place himself and now regular stream guest – Mitchell Heastie for our next meet the team segment! Check out his answers below:
I’m a designer, currently working on the Warhammer new content team. The first thing I worked on after joining was the Empires of Sand DLC for Total War: Attila, and I’ve worked on every single DLC for Attila and Warhammer ever since!
2 years and a half years.
… but I was a modder for many years before that, and had visited the studio many times for 5 years on and off, so it feels like a lot longer!
For me Total War is my favourite game series of all time, my dream jobs were always to either become a fighter pilot or to create Total War games. It’s still a bit surreal, the feeling of waking up in the morning and realising the job I’m about to go to is my dream job – this is my first job too, making it even crazier! I don’t think the feeling of walking through the doors at CA every day, excited to start work, is ever going to get old, as they say do a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. So yeah, stopping to think about how lucky I actually am is my favourite thing, it’s all a bit mad really.
The original Rome: Total War holds a lot of nostalgia for me, it was the game that really made me become a fully-fledged PC gamer, and it is a very very very close second place. Ultimately though I can’t look past Shogun 2 as the best of the series, it’s such a fantastic display of getting the core elements of the series right, and I can’t help but feel if ever the perfect Total War game was to be made it would use the design of Shogun 2 as at least the framework.
I love the Roman era, and that is totally due to playing Rome: Total War when I was younger. Ultimately though I have a real interest and passion for the history of World War 2. The time surrounding that war is so full of stories that are utterly captivating, horrifying and unbelievable that it’s hard not to learn about the period without coming away wanting to learn more.
Grand strategy games have captivated me more than any other throughout my gaming life I think. Generally anything that makes me think, and something that I can really sit down and know I can sink hours into and feel progress each time I play will always interest me. I’ve always loved the promise of what space games offer, games such as X3 for instance, but no space game has ever delivered the kind of experience I’m after to date which is intriguing.
My one interesting fact is that I used to be an extremely fast 100m sprinter, I never lost a tournament I competed in. For some reason though nobody at work believes me, which is annoying as it’s my one interesting fact…
I sat down with one of the chattiest members of the Cinematics team for Total War. Jack tells us some stories from his time with Creative Assembly and gives us an insight to what its like to work on Total War.
This week we’re celebrating a massive 17 YEAR anniversary of the birth of Total War! Way back in the year 2000, on the 13th of June, Creative Assembly released their breakout title in Shogun: Total War. It was a revolutionary blend of turn based, empire building strategy and real-time, detailed battles with hundreds of men. The game focused on the rich and fascinating period of Japanese feudal history known as the Sengoku period which would later be revisited in Total War: Shogun 2.
In June of 2000, Elliott Chin had this to say for Gamespot-
“Shogun has a great subject, and a perfect melding of strategic and tactical gameplay. The strategy portion is simple but very engrossing, while the tactical battles are very realistic, challenging, and entertaining exercises in military tactics. Shogun is a difficult game even on the default setting – but what’s so great is that the challenge is grounded on the basic, real-world tenets and common wisdom of warfare. Spreading yourself too thin is an invitation for disaster; alliances cannot be trusted for long; feigning weakness is one of the few ways to goad your opponents to overextend themselves; and so on. When you get beaten in battle or outmaneuvered on the strategic map, in hindsight it’ll be clear to you why you lost and thus easier for you to figure out how to do better the next time. Shogun is a very enjoyable game, as it keeps you honest by punishing you for your mistakes and richly rewarding you for your well-thought-out successes.”
As we get warmed up for E3, we thought it would be good to share a little about what the teams are working on in the meantime.
Let’s take a look…
We have had many questions on when our next historical title is going to be available, so we thought we would try to clear up any confusion and give you some information on what our historical teams have been up to these past few months.
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