The Total War games are ones that have come to define PC gaming, since the release of Shogun in 2000, this series has interwoven both grand turn-based strategy and awe inspiring real-time fights in majestic fashion. The next instalment in the series; Empire: Total War (due for release in March) promises to do the same, but what can we expect to see after this?
Will developers The Creative Assembly revisit an earlier game, perhaps a new Shogun or Rome? I say no, all signs point towards the next game being based in the modern era, the 20th Century seems right. The new engine for Empire features naval battles and all-out rifle warfare, both of which are defining characteristics of anything major conflict since World War One.
Further support for this theory comes from Mike Brunton, someone who has worked on every Total War game as a writer and designer. In a piece by Jim Rossignol (PC Gamer 197) which analyses the history of the Total War games Brunton gives us a hint of what to expect.
“Let’s just say we have some staff that have tiny joygasms over Tamiya and Trumpeter plastic tank kits and leave it at that. We won’t be able to restrain them forever.”
It is surely fair to say that there is a strong likelihood of the next game from The Creative Assembly bringing us into the modern era; they have a game engine that can deal with the combat and a team that has some strange fantasies about plastic tanks. What more of a hint do we need?
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Hello you,
first of all sorry for my bad english, i´m from Germany.
I think both WW would be too difficult, because of the happenigs in background which are very important for a resonable view on this dark period of men. You just can´t forget the Persecution of Jews (…). How should they realize air battles or good land offensives ?… When Nazi-germany attacked the sovjet union, they attacked the huge country with 3.000.000 soldiers on a 1000 miles front. So it wouldn´t work and would make fun.
I think the American Civil war would be the best
A lot of people have mentioned the American Civil War, can’t deny that it would make for a really good setting, but how long did the war last? (never studied it unfortunately) How much time either side of the start/end of the war could there realistcally be?
If the report from RPS (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/05/28/son-of-a-shogun-shogun-2-total-war/) is to believed (and I think it should be) then it seems like Shogun 2 may be the next step for Total War. Shock horror all around or joy?
among TW gamers that was expected, with rather dissipointing Empire and Napoleon CA will abandon gunpowder era
even do we arent sure will next be Shogun 2 or Rome 2
and some China Total War seems very likely too
another opinion is that next may be in era of Rome with map from Atlantic to Japan
we’ll wait for E3 and find out!!
And its been settled its going to be Shogun II http://pc.ign.com/objects/076/076283.html while i would have preferred a step forward in the series instead of a “remake” i have no duet that Shogun II will be great.
oh ya also Chris Evans the American civil war lasted 4 years 1861-1865 if my remembrance of American history serves me right but some American might no better then me lol. But there was the Franco-Prussian war 5 years later, and the American Indian war 5 years after that, along with the Russo-Turkish war and all the Anglo wars just to name few, and lets not forget the Boxer rebellion and the french Indochina wars. That means at this point in time the world map would be the entire world due to battles in Asia, middle east Africa and the Americas! I think empire kinda left off around the beginning of the Napoleonic wars and they now covered the Napoleonic period so i wish they would have continued 1850′s to 1900′s just per WW1 this is when repeater rifles came into action and a more modernized guerrilla warfare started. Also to all the people who say WW1 would not be interesting battle because it was “trench warfare” you do realize you had to get out of the trenches in order to attack and win right.
That sounds best.I know people like to say that Emp and Nap were disappointing but I really enjoyed it. Plus they have to keep revolutionizing themselves or they’ll stagnate. Rome total war was a boring pile of sh*t cause there were no realistic factions to contend with. The imperialistic Europe phase is perfect because of all the factions it offers and the HUGE map. Im excited for shogun 2 but i don’t want too many sequels cause that sounds boring. As for air battles it might sound difficult but looking at games like order of war and battlestations i think it’s doable.