While Creative Assembly have nonetheless introduced no such game, A Total War Saga: Troy as we speak graduated from “open secret” status to “mate come on”. The newest concern of PC Gamer has hit some retailer cabinets and the duvet game is you-know-what. “Epic battle in a world of gods and monsters,” the cheery RPS fanzine declares. I’d very very like this to imply it’s a mythological epic with an enormous wood horse and Achilles actually having a battle with a river and all that. Details are hazy for now, although Creative Assembly’s public stance on the game they nonetheless haven’t introduced downplays the fantastical. Cowards.
Reddit poster “Mavus” snapped this PCG cowl in… the place is that, a WHSmith in a big London prepare station?
Saga is the Total War subseries formally began by Thrones Of Britannia (although Fall Of The Samurai was retroactively dubbed a Saga), a line of games targeted on smaller locations and particular instances. It lets them go extra in-depth with explicit tales and possibly a bit weirder. Sadly, Creative Assembly appear to be downplaying the mythological angle of Troy.
“Love the speculation and we’ll have more information on this VERY soon, but for now I just want to say that we’re really focusing on the truth behind the myth…” a Creative Assembler responded.
Given that the Trojan War everybody is aware of is extra delusion than historical past and may at greatest be a hodge-podge of various wars at completely different instances, that’s a curious declare. There are a number of potential truths and so they’re all fairly chuffing hazy.
That doesn’t imply Creative Assembly can’t assemble fragments of tales right into a coherent piece of historic fiction however why would you when you may have Achilles going radge, a military hidden inside a chuffing nice horse, and Zeus stoking battle in an try to quietly cull his bastard kids and placate the spouse? I suppose they may have a extra fantastical mode too, like in Three Kingdoms, although they’d in all probability nonetheless cease in need of combating rivers. Cowards.
Creative Assembly’s latest newsletter teases a taking place at 3pm on Thursday and gosh what ever may it’s?
