Alexander the CD

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 August, 2006

Rome expansion boxed up.

Having learned a "phenomenal amount" about digital distribution with the download-only release of Rome: Total War expansion Alexander, Creative Assembly and SEGA are now planning to pop it in a box for those of you without Internets. Rendering this news item somewhat moot, you might argue. It'll be out on September 1st.

Alexander was Rome's second expansion after Barbarian Invasion, and was also previously available as part of the Total War: Eras mega-bundle, which features all the Total War games and lots of promotional bumf about how good Medieval II: Total War is going to be. Well, it probably is.

As a game, Alexander is a fair expansion, or so we reckoned in our review. Boasting an extended campaign and multiplayer, along with historical battles, it was an opportunity to explore the path of one of the world's greatest commanders, with six battles involving the great one (even if one of them was just him sitting there picking at the tongue of his boot while daddy romped around with a spear).

And so if you haven't tried it already, and you feel the need to fill in a bit more of the pre-Medieval (see what we did) lull, September 1st is when to look for the boxed one.

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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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  • Kazzahdrane #1 6 years ago

    Very cheeky, I imagine quite a few people won't be pleased - especially since AFAIK you can only download it a limited number of times once you've paid for it online, as opposed to say Valve's Steam service.

    A woman once came into our work very cross about buying Barbarian Invasion for her son's birthday when he already had it (our fault, obviously) - he actually wanted Alexander. We explained that it was only available online and in the Total War: Eras boxset but she complained that "he doesn't have access to the internet" and that she would be writing to the manufacturer to complain.

    Not having access to the internet isn't a crime, but not knowing anyone who does so you could download it and burn it to a CD/DVD is a little stupid - or being too much of a technophobe to buy things off the Internets omg!!

    The fact that it would almost certainly be much cheaper online than if Creative Assembly released it at retail didn't seem to register to her either.

  • JSD124 #2 6 years ago

    I'll get it with Total War Eras. But I'll buy that from the Internet anyway. The last videogames related thing I bought from an actual shop was my Lite, everything else is from Amazon or Play.