The Fall Of Rome & Attila The Hun Next For Total War!
September 26, 2014 by brennon
The next Total War game has been revealed by Creative Assembly and it focuses in on Attila the Hun and the fall of the Roman Empire. It's essentially Barbarian Invasion II if I'm being honest but it does look fun!
You can watch the full run down from Eurogamer above but the new campaign sees you taking control of a fractured Roman Empire, or indeed (hopefully) one of the barbarian nations knocking at the gates of Rome. You'll be fighting across the biggest starting Empire that they've made in a game so it will be quite the challenge.
A whole bunch of features from the past games have returned including family trees, better technology trees and a more robust diplomacy system. As well as that battles have of course had an upgrade with the ability to change the battlefield, especially in sieges. You can erect hastily made barricades to funnel enemies or hold them back just long enough to reform your defences.
Last but not least one of the coolest additions is the way you can utterly abandon regions and raze cities to the ground. Being pursued by a Saxon army and have no chance of taking them on? Burn down the city and the region as you leave denying your enemy the resources to continue fighting.
As quite a lot of us love the Dark Ages it will be interesting to see how this game may develop with additional content in the future!
Will you be getting this?
Will this be on consoles as well?
Probably not – RTS games don’t tend to translate well over to being played with a pad. You’ll most certainly have to pick it up on PC.
BoW Ben
… wait till you see Total Warhammer 😉
There is an infuriating mod for it if you can be bothered with the messy installation. Away from that they do indeed have the rights to it and someone did spot a folder marked ‘Warhammer’ during a sneak peek at a developers screen on a video. Whether or not we’ll see anything about it soon is another matter entirely. I was kind of hoping it was going to be there next game but it seems they’re playing it say with a refinement of Rome II in Attila (Barbarian Invasion II…that’s pretty much where it’s at). Maybe we’ll see something in… Read more »
I can confirm they are making the game right now 😉 😀
… but I didn’t say that 😛
… and neither did the people who told me 😛 😛 😛 ha ha
… but like you said, when it’s finished is another matter entirely 😛 ha ha
That’s hilarious.
Total War is my game of choice when I feel like pushing pixels around instead of paint. Lots of replayability, and the highest level offers a good challenge, even if your empire gets artificially inundated with crisis after crisis, and seemingly at the most inopportune times. This will definitely go on my Xmas list!
looks good I think I’ll what for the Warhammer one will there be a 40K version to follow?
Why don’t you play the LOTR version? I have it and it’s great
I’ll look in to that thanks.
@zorg yeah, I only know about the Warhammer one at the moment 🙂
but I guess it’s possible that they will do 40k if it’s a success 🙂
while we’re on the subject …
they also get free boxes of Warhammer for working on it
(¡ ~ ¡) luckyyyyyyy 😛
hope fully both will be as good as the other total war games then?