Total War: ATTILA

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/138116-Total-War™-ATTILA-Announced
http://www.totalwar.com/attila

Your World Will Burn
Total War™: ATTILA Announced
The next thrilling entry in the Total War series takes players to the brink of the apocalypse

San Francisco and London – September 25, 2014 – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe, Ltd. today announced Total War™: ATTILA, the next instalment in the multi award-winning Total War series of strategy games.
The Dark Ages approach. A time of famine, disease and war, where refugees in their thousands flee from a sweeping tide of destruction and death. Desperate barbaric tribes rally against the ailing might of a dying and divided Roman empire; the light of civilization gutters and dims. In the great steppes of Scythia, a vast and terrifying force gathers, led by a warrior king whose thirst for conquest is utterly unequalled.
The Scourge of God, the very herald of the apocalypse, Attila the Hun.
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Total War: ATTILA introduces exciting new gameplay mechanics which improve and add to numerous core turn-based and real-time Total War systems. The world will darken around you as Attila’s forces descend on your homeland creating a unique vision of survival strategy.
“With Total War: ATTILA we will create a Total War game that will challenge and enthrall fans of the series” said Janos Gaspar, project lead on Total War: ATTILA. “We’re reintroducing some features that fans have been asking for, such as family trees and skill trees, and improving many of the core aspects of Total War we know are important to them. But to really bring the period to life, we’re building on these foundations with many new strategic features for them to consider, such as advanced street-fighting, civilians, complete settlement destruction and dynamic fire that can rage across a city as armies clash. We want to push players to the limits of their skill to survive against the odds, and to love every minute of it.”
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Total War: ATTILA is due for release in 2015 on Windows PC and Mac. For more information, please visit www.totalwar.com.

 

[Infinitron]

So, this is the Napoleon to Rome 2's Empire.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Colors overall look so much better now.

 

[34scell]

Wow, even using the same naming convention... wow.

 

[Forest Dweller]

So, this is the Napoleon to Rome 2's Empire.

Yep, was just about to say it's a Rome 2 expansion masquerading as a full game. It's even the same time period as the original Rome expansion.

 

[Whisky]

On the other hand, there is a huge shortage of Dark Age games.

But yeah, this'll probably be just as awful.

 

[mondblut]

I want to be a goth vandal.

 

[Konjad]

Cool battles but what is this all for when you can't even fuck your own daughter like in CK2.

 

[Onyxme]

So, this is the Napoleon to Rome 2's Empire.

Hopefully it will be as much better as Napoleon was compared to Empire, and if they actually build upon the improvements they started to make with Emperors Edition (instead of going back to being insane) it could actually be a worthwhile game.

 

[KoolNoodles]

So, this is the Napoleon to Rome 2's Empire.

Hopefully it will be as much better as Napoleon was compared to Empire, and if they actually build upon the improvements they started to make with Emperors Edition (instead of going back to being insane) it could actually be a worthwhile game.

Eh. It's too bad that basically all Napoleon improved was that the game was playable and ran pretty well. All the campaigns were streamlined, small, and simplistic, and the combat speed was revved up and made more "arcadey". It's not as good as you remember, it just wasn't complete shit like ETW.

 

[titus]

Still the same engine? Still shit.

 

[MapMan]

I learned my lesson with Rome 2 so...

 

[Kattze]

It will still be shit compared to BI.

 

[Ulminati]

The only ones I got were the shoguns and medievals. From what I've seen the only thing I may have missed out on is Rome 1.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I want this to have a Nibelungen campaign in it. With Etzel, Kriemhild, Hagen von Tronje and tons on dirty Huns to slaughter.

I also want Jeff van Dyck composing the music.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Since The Huns are my ancestors somewhat, I feel an obligation to buy this game.

Be wary of Hun Turks, they have wolves dogs that can climb walls and can single handedly defeat Kraken, undersea. (sorry for thrash quality, thats the only one with subtitles...)

 

[omega21]

I never played Shogun 2, but on all accounts it was superior to the steaming pile of arse that was Rome 2. What the fuck happened?

I also liked Empire, so sue me

 

[omega21]

I enjoyed it too - it had enlarged maps, reasonable variety, some interesting campaign map ideas, garrisons et al. It was still pretty awful though.

The hero units seem overpowered as fuck though.

 

[omega21]

If they can't be played, what's the point? It's just like the barbarians in those Parajews games then, with absurdly high regenning morale or something.

 

[Forest Dweller]

It's just like the Mongols in both Medieval games. Playing them as a faction would have been super-easy mode.

 

[omega21]

edit: come to think of it i believe they had ZERO upkeep in vanilla

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Fighting that shit was ridiculous because of this. Wouldn't allowing players to play as Huns/Mongols/Incans/Congoids thus create an easy babby training mode virtually for free?

 

[Raghar]

What happened to Warhammer?

 

[Space Satan]

Expecting to see more videos about glorious AI, archers charging defending berzerkers and cavalry getting struck in a battering ram. Godspeed CA!

 

[Raghar]

archers charging defending berzerkers and cavalry getting struck in a battering ram.

Well, shit happens.

 

[Raghar]

That was never problem for garage games teams. In AA games. Prototype was done in 6 months. Programming was basically over in 1.5 year, and developers who were working on programming were moved to creation of rest of the assets *1. 2.3 years game done. 0.2 year removal of bugs. Then release.
(Note in garage games not everyone was strictly specialized in theirs part, with exception of sound guy. Having developers who can well work in multiple position as needed was BIG ADVANTAGE.)

*1 this doesn't mean they stopped completely, it just mean majority of theirs work wasn't programming anymore.

Less work intensive games were done sooner.

 

[not an artichoke]

Clearly you simply don't understand the massive amount of effort and polish required to turn out a masterpiece like Rome 2