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Next Total War in development at The Creative Assembly

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 17th 2011 12:00PM

Total War developer The Creative Assembly is hard at work on the next installment of the strategy franchise. Eurogamer confirmed with Studio Director Tim Heaton that work began on the next installment while the studio was finishing Total War: Shogun 2. "Absolutely, we're on the next," said Heaton.

Sega recently announced that Total War: Shogun 2 sold 600,000 copies. Creative Assembly's Mike Simpson said the series has a "long tail" and that the original Shogun sold "more copies in the second three years of its existence than it did in its first three years." Of course, that wasn't at full price. There's no word yet which period of history (or future) the next game will be set in.

Source: Eurogamer

Tags: creative-assembly, pc, Sega, shogun-2-total-war, the-creative-assembly, tim-heaton, Total-War

Reader Comments (28)

Rome 2 please

@Nastt

This. I'm not ready to be excited yet though, I'm still really enjoying Shogun 2. Well, I will be when I have time to play it. Stupid university and responsibilities.

Have to say I'm much more interested in where they take the series next. I find Japanese settings in video games a bit cliche.

@AMonkey have you even played it? Unlike most, it's actually based on history and there isnt much BS going on. There's also more space games than Japanese games now days anyway. It only became "cliche" because a lot of japanese devs made the game take place in a familiar location to their own people, like how 80% of US games take place in New York.

@Kougeru Yes I've played it and I find the setting very unintereting. Medieval Europe or Rome were far more interesting civilisations.

@AMonkey
Wow. Well, that's just bias. There's nothing uninteresting about any nation's history, let alone a period of strife. I don't think any country has managed to develop without ample amounts of intrigue, backbiting, conflict, and crazy politics. The fact that Japan had all this (maybe even worse) than Europe yet also shrouded it in a culture of manners and honor (to a more extreme degree than chivalry) is something I'd call pretty interesting.

@Kougeru - So what you're saying is... there's no giant enemy crabs?

i hope this doesnt mean an end to patches already...

@Kougeru

Not a chance. They've stated on several occasions that they made Shogun 2 with a long-term goal in mind. It's graphics are crazily scalable as well which nods towards their future-proofing of the game.

Ancient China!

@hsol Total War: Dynasty Warriors Edition

World War 1 or 2 would be amazing in the Total War series...
I want something more modern now.

@den69 I agree with a WWI based game

Oh yeah trench warfare that'll be great fun,
18 turns of just waiting around and occasionally sending waves of troops to be immediately slaughtered by machine guns.

@Qehb

That's what tanks are for :-P

@den69

Yeah that would be a bit of a late campaign game changer.
:P

@Qehb

True but it did happen so it would be fun to play for me lol I like the realism of Total War.
Also there are the sea battles to think about.
I just think its a cool time period in general.

I wonder why this game didn't sell over a million it one of the best rts for 2011.

@bargaingamer

Probably because it hasn't been on sale yet.

*hint hint*

@bargaingamer

600k Is pretty decent for a strategy game that isn't made by blizzard in that amount of time.

@draknahr and does 600k include digital download?

Well, that sure didn't take long.

Rome 2 seems like the most obvious choice, but I want a Medieval 3.

Total War: Terminator
or
Total War: Modern Warfare

@lazurus Yeah, one of the things I loved about the total wat games was that you could make totally silly versions of history. In Rome TW, I took over Rome playing as the Britons.

In TW: Modern Warfare, you could have the Russians invade America...

No, wait, that's just too stupid.

I really hope they do more than improve graphics. The games need a serious overall in unit and group AI and opponent AI.

Total War: Caveman

Total War: Bacteria in a Petri Dish

Total War: Global Thermonuclear War (no one wins)

Medieval 3!

I reckon the American Civil War would be the next logical setting. Whether people would be terribly interested in that is another matter....

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Posted: May 17th 2011 12:11PM Nastt said

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Posted: May 17th 2011 1:17PM AMonkey said

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Posted: May 17th 2011 1:04PM Qehb said

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Posted: May 17th 2011 8:22PM den69 said

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