Series like Civilization often boil complex cultural differences down to a few buffs and a special unit.
Often in 4X games, there isn’t much variety between factions. Total War: ATTILA lets you steer the destiny of one of these nations in the face of the Hunnic onslaught – will you weather the storm and rebuild as the Romans, lead barbarian tribes to new lands, or lay waste to all before you as the Huns? Were it not for their invasion the Saxons and Franks might never have settled in Britain and Gaul, and the world we know today would be a very different place. The displaced peoples who fled from their attacks often fought those in their way, creating a domino chain of bloody skirmishes that threw the continent into chaos and tore the already weak Roman Empire to ribbons. The Huns’ story makes for a thrilling campaign, of course, but more importantly their actions irreversibly shifted the balance of power in Europe. If you don’t, someone else will do it to you, and you won’t have the resources to do anything about it.Īttila the Hun is really the perfect person to put at the center of this sort of game.
You need to conquer foreign lands either by waging war or intimidating them into surrender. You might research new technology and forge political alliances, but you do it all in service of one goal: dominance through warfare. Where most grand strategy games have several factors that can determine victory – economic supremacy, scientific progress, or even cultural influence – Total War really has only one win condition, and it’s right there in the title. If Sid Meyer’s Civilization is overbearingly optimistic, then The Creative Assembly’s Total War series is its bleak counterpart.
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