Total War Saga Spin-Off Series Announced - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 July 2017 / 6,176 Views
Sega and Creative Assembly's Total War IP is getting a standalone spin-off series called A Total War Saga. The games will be focused on pivotal moments in history rather than an entire era.
"With our big releases that cover entire eras, like Rome or Empire, we’ve been following them up with standalone games that focus on a single character’s life and the time around them; like Napoleon or Attila," said game director Jack Lusted. "But there are also these key, pivotal points in history which don’t necessarily revolve around a single character, and only lasted a few months or few decades at most. Such moments also tend to be constrained to a tight geographic area as well.
"These moments are perfect fuel for Total War. They’re a powder keg, where anything can happen and history could have gone in any direction. Sagas are epic stories, and we felt that name described those moments well, and allows us to go into the kind of individual detail we love.
"So, Total War Saga games will be the same mix of turn-based campaign strategy, real-time battle tactics and hundreds if not thousands of hours of gameplay as a regular Total War game, but focussed down on a distinct moment.
"Sagas won’t be revolutionary new titles or introduce brand-new eras; they’ll follow-on from previous Total War games and inhabit the same time-period, or at the very least relate to it. But these are certainly Total War games.
"We’ve got more games in production than we’ve ever had before, and historical games form the majority of our forthcoming releases. We thought that badging these “A Total War Saga” would help players understand that they are a spin-off and not the next major title."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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im waiting for a medieval 3 total war with a map like the on in rome 2
Fans are waiting for WW1 Total War.
I am interested
Could prova to be än interesting concept! WWI would fit right in here; that's a conflict that lasted 4 years, and wouldn't need än entire epoch dedicated go there it. I can see Alexander the Great, the Punic Wars and the American Civil War being great episodes for this
Rome 3 or GTFO!
Bring Strategy to consoles, I beg you.
Creative Assembly makes great games but their DLC plan for every Total War has been absolutely horrible, blood and gore dlc, many small factions, campaigns for 15, if you buy everything day one you generally pay 3x the price of a full game, damn
