CA started off making mostly sports game ports for MS-DOS and Windows, before getting the funds together in 1999 to make the first in their signature franchise: Shogun: Total War. That’s very close to making it the oldest continuously developing game studio in the world. Creative Assembly has made video games since it was founded in London in 1987. Play defense, or perish before the hordes from the north and the east.īefore I get into my impressions after playing for a few hours, I want to offer a bit of a history lesson, but it’s not about barbarian invasions. In Attila, you don’t forge new empires by growing your influence or martial power you hedge against the inevitable fall of civilization as best you can. These don’t immediately strike a gamer as fun themes to explore, especially in a strategy game. is usually discussed by armchair historians as the ultimate effect of over-extension and moral decay. The crumbling of the Roman Empire around 400 A.D. The upcoming strategy game from Creative Assembly, makers of the Shogun and Rome Total War games as well as last year’s Alien: Isolation, is set in a time period oft-overlooked. That’s the underlying theme of Total War: Attila.
