It’s also the reason why this emphatically is not a review of the game, but instead some general thoughts and commentary. That is no doubt a failing on my part, but I get bored going through the motions, amassing a force large enough to capture this or that city so that I can accumulate the necessary resources to recruit a better army that will take me to the next step, and so on. Much to my own surprise, I have found this terribly dull. In many ways, the Trojan War is simply a prop for this game (see also Joshua Hall’s relatively recent Wolfson Ancient Warfare Wednesday talk). The game focuses not so much on the war, but on preparing for the fight. But in the game, you start out as either a Greek or Trojan leader, and you have to conquer or ally a sufficiently large number of rivals to be strong enough to win the game. The Trojan War is a story where a more or less united Greek force fights the Trojans and their allies. The second reason is that the theme of the game – the Trojan War – is a poor fit with the Total War formula. I would have preferred they either framed the game entirely using the black-figure aesthetic, or went with straight-up fantasy, rather than this incongruous mess. The equipment of the warriors within the game, as showcased by Agamemnon here (foreground, left), is an anachronistic mess of stuff from different periods, slathered in fantasy. The game looks gorgeous, especially the black-figure aesthetic.
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The only game in the series that came close to the original, as far as I am concerned, was the Shogun sequel from 2011, which is arguably the best of the more recent crop of Total War games.
The strategic layer was too complex for what it needed to be, and as developer Creative Assembly pumped out one game after another, the real-time battles lost whatever magic they may have had back in Shogun: Total War. With Rome: Total War (2004), the series introduced a much more detailed turn-based strategic layer, but I never felt it added anything worthwhile to the formula. It was a fairly simple yet elegant game, with evocative art and music. Released in 2000 and set during Japan’s Sengoku period, the strategic layer was a simple map, sort of like the boardgame Risk, and the real-time battles used sprites in order to render hundreds of troops. The first game in the series was Shogun: Total War. The battles themselves are real-time, with you deploying your troops before hitting the attack button, and then issuing commands to your troops in an attempt to kill off enough of the enemy so that they break and rout. When your army meets a rival army, you can choose to control the army directly on the battlefield. In case you haven’t played any of the previous entries in the series, Total War games are large-scale or “grand” strategy games where you spend most of your time playing in a turn-based layer similar to Civilization, where you build up cities to recruit bigger and better armies to conquer more cities so you can build even bigger and even better armies. The first reason is that I have come to realize that I don’t care much about the Total War games any more. There are two main reasons for why I’m done with the game and have no desire to continue playing it. I haven’t played enough of A Total War Saga: Troy (2020) to give you an honest appraisal about the game itself, or even if it’s worth your time. Let me start by saying that this is definitely not a review. That said, it is hard to notice the difference between high and ultra settings outside of a side-by-side comparison.This article was originally published on the defunct Ancient World Magazine website and is now re-published here. Textures also appear sharper, and the game's lighting appears more complex.Īt Ultra, it is clear that trees and other items on the campaign map are more detailed. Moving to high settings provides more accurate shadows to A Total War Saga: Troy's campaign map, making the game appear much less flat and significantly more detailed. That said, players can have a great campaign experience, even with the game's low settings.
If anything, more time could be spent on this map if you are a fan of the game's auto-resolve feature.Įven at low, Troy's campaign map is fairly detailed, but the map lacks shadowing, cloud shadows and a lot of the detail that higher settings can provide. With A Total War Saga: Troy, like all Total War titles, players will likely spend as much time on the campaign map as they do in battle. Graphical Settings Comparison - The Campaign Map
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