Total War might need been away in the land of elves and orcs for a while now, nevertheless it hasn’t forgotten its historic roots. In reality, Creative Assembly are engaged on three historic Total War video games: one is an enlargement to an older title, one is a spin-off of sorts called a Saga, and the most important of the lot is about in a wholly new period. New to Total War, that’s. Being historic it’ll undoubtedly be one thing previous. A big blog post at present offers some hints as to what we will count on and I’m simply going to come back proper out and say one phrase: Vikings.
It’s the Saga recreation that has a whiff of Vikings about it. The initial teaser image seems to be very very similar to the Irish coast and now there’s this remark: “Oh, and beware the crow.” Could that be a reference to Badb Catha, the mythological battle crow? It’d actually be a becoming portent for a Total War recreation, on condition that they’re all about bloodshed and battle, the very issues Babd’s look typically presaged in Irish legends.
The director of the Saga undertaking, Jack, has this to say:
“It’s a new game in that it’s substantial and stand-alone sure, but it’s like Fall of the Samurai following-on from Shogun 2. We’re taking the base from a previous game, overhauling it and adding new content, but not reinventing the wheel. It’s an extension or magnification of the previous game’s time period, so of course there’s some cross over. And that allows us to add even more new content. Fall of the Samurai is a great example really.”
What of the brand new period Total War might be visiting although? Janos is the undertaking lead there and we will select just a few hints from feedback within the Q&A.
“We’ve ramped up to the final team size in the past few months, so things are moving along steadily with daily visible progress. For example, it’s nice to see, after having researched historical city-layouts for months, it all coming together in the game. There are still placeholder grey boxes here and there, but the atmosphere is already outstanding and gameplay feels strong.”
“Historical city-layouts” won’t look like a huge clue nevertheless it does rule out some eras. Pre-city areas. I suppose it’s not that huge a clue in any case.
What else is there?
“Mike Simpson gave an interview years ago that we see fans quote all the time, where he says he doesn’t think we’ll do a “3”. That is a very long time in the past. We’ve modified our minds 100 occasions on that since, so all bets are off after we’re considering of our subsequent recreation.
“But this one, will be brand new, and that means we can explore interesting new concepts while still bringing what makes it ‘Total War’ to the game.”
It’s undoubtedly 100% completely not Medieval III then. Personally, I’m hoping for the American Civil War. I believe the contained nature of the battle, geographically talking in addition to when it comes to its contributors, performs into Total War’s strengths in the identical method that Shogun 2 did. I additionally reckon it’s about as trendy a struggle as I can think about working successfully with out monumental modifications to the strategic and tactical layers. Not that I’d be against main modifications.
Before any of that we’ll have the primary new historic undertaking although, which is an enlargement to an older recreation. Project lead Maya says:
“There’s a lot of people still playing this particular game, but there’s also lot more we haven’t even touched in that era yet, some really incredible stories and events that defined history.”
It’s most likely going to be one thing about Rome, isn’t it?
Read the whole Q&A and see if you will discover any clues that I missed.
