Rome: Total War expansion

By Tom Bramwell Published 6 April, 2006

All about Alexander.

The Creative Assembly's working on an expansion pack for Rome: Total War called Alexander, according to PC Zone, and it'll be released through a digital distribution service when it's finished.

Alexander will span the years from the death of Philip II of Macedon in 336BC to the great warmonger's own clog-popping, says Zone, with six historical battles that highlight his biggest fights, multiplayer and four new factions.

Those are Alexander's Macedonian army, The Persians, The Indians and the Barbarians, with 50 or so new units included in total and - as Zone rightly points out, brilliantly - Brian Blessed doing the job of game narrator.

We'll let you know when we hear more.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • President_Weasel #1 6 years ago

    Gordon's Alive!

    Brian Blessed as narrator might just persuade me to buy this.

    but seeing as Brian Blessed is in it they've missed a trick by not including the Hawkmen as a playable faction.
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/06 @ 10:30

  • Amajiro #2 6 years ago

    While I applaud any expansion to this fantastic game, this one doesn't feel particularly expansive. With online distribution I can't believe this will cost more than a tenner. Brian Blessed alone is worth that much.

  • Psi #3 6 years ago

    will it have lots of gay tension and oh is he going to kiss him moments?


    damn that film was so bad...

  • glaeken #4 6 years ago

    As Alexandra only lived to something like 33 and the RTW does 2 turns a year that would seem to indicate the whole thing will be over in 66 turns. That seems a little short for a campaign to me.

    Maybe they will change the amount of turns per year to fix that.

  • Dynamize #5 6 years ago

    Cor, they could only really turn it up to "Blessed" after Pertwee's turn in Medieval.
    SLAAAAAAAAAY!

  • bauhaus #6 6 years ago

    > Gordon's Alive!


    Only bettered by..

    "Send out war rocket Ajax; to brring back his body"

  • Chaser #7 6 years ago

    Flash... aaahhh haaaa.... saviour of the universe!

  • Aga #8 6 years ago

    Alexandar add-on, thats definately something I will look into