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New Total War will unveil at E3, developer goes "back to basics"
Posted: 24.05.2010 11:09 by Simon Priest Comments: 8
Creative Assembly is to announce a brand new Total War instalment at this year's E3 event, and it appears they're hurtling back in time "to basics."

There'll be no magical boom dust, otherwise known as gunpowder, to clear those fields of battle if reports are accurate. Could Rome be sacked again?

"Just to confirm, we are still working on Total War and aren't planning to get sporty!" twittered Creative Assembly, teasing Total War fans over the recent sports title rumours going around, that appear to be London Olympic Games related.

VE3D appear to know what era the developers are working in but they won't spill, "... let's just say that the new PC-only game eschews the gunpowder weaponry of recent Total War titles and gets back to basics." Could we return to Feudal Japan with Shogun?

Maybe all this new graphical and technical prowess will be flexed in Rome, with all new shiny centurions marching off to crush those filthy unwashed barbarian hordes...? I guess we just have to sit and wait patiently until Creative Assembly relieves our anguish.

The latest has been Napoleon: Total War, which we've Waterloo'd real good!

Comments

By Kres (SI Elite) on May 24, 2010
Kres
Man that's good news! Guess everybody wanted that. I'd want the campaign map system utterly changed. Never liked it too much, since medieval.
By Kiam99 (SI Veteran Member) on May 24, 2010
Kiam99
I really happy to hear about this! A new version of Shogun or Rome would be great and defiently on my to buy list! Like M2TW were :)
By Chosen_One (SI Elite) on May 24, 2010
Chosen_One
Oh...thats...GREAT!!!!
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on May 25, 2010
herodotus
Yes I'll join in: Great!!!
I still don't know why China hasn't been done (epic battles, far more so than fuedal Japan).
I really don't want to go back to Rome or Medieval, and Japan...well I know it's popular, but it's also a small map.
M3TW? I sincerely hope not.
"China: Total War" gets my vote.
By benny180 (SI Core) on May 25, 2010
benny180
Good news indeed, i like the sound of doing China Herod, a battle along the Great Wall would be epic!
By Kres (SI Elite) on May 25, 2010
Kres
Yeah China, Mongols could be next? Who knows...
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on May 26, 2010
herodotus
Just imagine a Siege outside the Great Wall between the Mongols and the Han forces.
There are also a myriad of battles famous in history, involving thousands of troops from all sides.
I'll bet CA ignore it, though.
By Kres (SI Elite) on May 27, 2010
Kres
Well the first thing that popped on my mind when you mentioned siege are the bugs and mainly the lack of natural looking and behaving siege slaughters. Neither TW siege engine was too good. The latest ones are the best, but they don't really get anything going for me.