Total War - Alexander details

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 May, 2006

And shots.

SEGA's confirmed the brilliant news about its Rome: Total War - Alexander expansion. You know, that Brian Blessed is voicing over the cut-scenes. Wicked!

SEGA's also talked it up in a bit more detail. It's out in June and will be sold through digital distribution on www.sega.com and other official sites, and features a new campaign, six new historical battles, and adds four new factions and more than 60 units.

They reckon it adds up to 30 hours of gameplay in total. There's a new campaign - spanning Alexander's unification of Greece and his subsequent conquest of the Persian Empire - and the six historical battles, playable online and via LANs, too - include Alexander's triumphs against the Greeks, Persians and Indians.

Among the new factions will be the Macedonians and the Persians, while the more-than-60 new units including Persian scythed chariots, elite immortals and the likes of the Hypaspists, Phalangists and Companion cavalry.

We've also got some screenshots. For you to have, I dunno, invade your eyes. WHAT? It's hot and it's late!

Picture of Tom.

About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (4) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Metalfish #1 6 years ago

    The second is preferable to the former, in my opinion. Fog is rather annoying in some games. But lots of things is always nice, serious Sam was fun...

  • fawe3 #2 6 years ago

    _neon seriously dont expect so much of things on screen in final version. All previous TW series games had huge units size on screenshots, before game was released, but in the end they were always exagerated.

  • jsoderba #3 6 years ago

    All the TW games have adjustable unit sizes, with the default set to a modest number. You can get companies with 200+ soldiers with some unit types.

  • fawe3 #4 6 years ago

    Yea, but only moding the game and even with that youll never get those spectacular battles from sceens ;)