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There’s A New Total War Game Coming, But It’s Not What You Think
Creative Assembly will later this year release Rome II, a proper Total War game. They’ll also, presumably, one day take the wraps off a Warhammer title. As of today though, there’s another Total War game coming, and it’s a weird one, because it’s not the Warhammer game, and it’s not the next true Total War game either.
Fan Gets A Memorial In Total War After Losing Battle With Cancer
Shortly after his visit to get a very early preview of Total War: Rome 2 last year, a 24-year-old gamer named James died, taken by liver cancer in the prime of his life. Eurogamer reports that Total War studio Creative Assembly was so touched by the short time it spent with James that his image will be included as a soldier in the game.
The First Look At Total War: Rome II’s Gameplay Has Freakin’ Battle Elephants
By the gods, this first glimpse of the the battles between the ancient empire of Rome and Carthage looks amazing. The video above is purportedly cut from in-game footage and this clip — coupled with the screens we saw earlier this year — sure make it seem like Creative Assembly’s next strategy opus is going to be a visual stunner.
OK, There Might Be Too Many Live-Action Trailers Now
We live in a time where even a new Total War game gets a live-action trailer, complete with sexy bits (the ring-kissing is not a sexy bit), stabbings and sexy stabbings.
Total War: Shogun 2: The Fall Of The Samurai: The Kotaku Review
Or, as I should have called it, my review of the Great Colon War of 1864. In 2009, Creative Assembly released one of the greatest strategy games ever made. A year later, they had the cheek to release an expansion pack and try and pass it off as an all-new title. Skip ahead to 2011, they again released one of the greatest strategy games ever made.
The Best Game Music Of 2011: Total War: Shogun 2
Total War: Shogun 2 may look and sound for all the world like the latest in a long line of reasonably bland strategy games. As most strategy games are. Removing the player from the action to such an abstract level tends to rob the genre of its potential to truly immerse you in the spirit of the war, time or place.
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