As we started reading through all of the source material, we kept trying to push more and more with the romance side of it and we realised we weren’t quite there. “The core of the team was coming from Total War: Attila and so we were just thinking about making one version. “That was super interesting,” added senior game designer, Attila Mohacsi. Adding bits of one to the other just felt like a constant compromise, so we went: okay, let’s be true to the historical epic and the history at the same time.” “Quite quickly on,” said communications manager, Al Bickham, “we got to a point where the designers realised we needed both a classic and fantasy mode. So what does that mean for the game’s direction? Is this a historical Total War game, or not? We asked Creative Assembly. Instead, he is said to have pulled out the arrow along with his eyeball, eaten it in front of his troops, and then killed an enemy officer in single combat. Written in the 14th century, it heavily dramatises the lives and actions of many of the real people involved.įor example, while the military general Xiahou Dun, who lost his left eye to an arrow, is thought to have then spent the remainder of his career away from the frontlines, this is not the case in this romanticised retelling of events.
However this game isn’t based solely on the historical events of that era, it’s drawing much of its inspiration from a Chinese novel called Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It’s now been more than three years since the last proper historical Total War game (sorry Thrones of Britannia), as Creative Assembly has focused instead on the high fantasy world of Warhammer with its magical swords, dragons and giant floating toads.īut with Total War: Three Kingdoms on the horizon, the studio is now finally returning to a real world setting once again: a decades-long conflict that changed China forever.
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