Creative assembly
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| legal form | Sega subsidiary |
| founding | August 28, 1987 |
| Seat | Horsham , West Sussex , England |
| Number of employees | ~ 500 |
| Branch | Software development |
| Website | www.creative-assembly.co.uk |
Creative Assembly (officially The Creative Assembly Ltd ) is a British game development company founded on August 28, 1987 by Tim Ansell and based in Horsham , West Sussex , England , known for its Total War strategy game series and some sports games developed for EA between 1993 and 2000 . On March 9, 2005, Creative Assembly was bought by Sega .
history
Like many other British companies founded in the 1990s, dealt The Creative Assembly originally DOS - ports of Amiga - and ZX-Spectrum -Play such as Geoff Crammonds Stunt Car Racer , Shadow of the Beast of Psygnosis , or known FIFA International Soccer from EA Sports . Although the development studio was in England, Creative Assembly worked mostly with the Australian EA studios, which is reflected in the titles produced with the Burnaby company : the official game for the 1995 and 1999 Rugby World Cup, two from the Australian Football League licensed titles from 1998 and 1999 and finally rugby in 2001 .
The developers finally achieved the breakthrough with the first game in the Total War series: Shogun: Total War . It is a mixture of turn-based and real-time strategy game , in which you could command thousands of weather and terrain-influenced units. Set in Japan's Sengoku era , the game was a huge hit and sold pretty well. This was followed by the expansion Mongol Invasion and the two successors Medieval: Total War and Rome: Total War , both again with expansions.
Because of the potential of the Total War series and Creative Assembly expertise regarding sports games Sega bought on March 9, 2005 the company for a sum of around 30 million US dollars as part of its strategy in Europe to invest-company software.
Since then, Sega has published Medieval 2: Total War , Empire: Total War , Napoleon: Total War , Total War: Shogun 2 as well as Total War: Rome II and Total War: Attila (also all with extensions).
On March 7, 2017, Sega bought Crytek Black Sea . The studio will be the second location of Creative Assembly in the future and will operate under the name Creative Assembly Sofia.
Developed games
Total War series:
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Shogun: Total War (June 13, 2000)
- Mongol Invasion (Add-on for Shogun: Total War)
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Medieval: Total War (August 19, 2002)
- Viking Invasion (add-on for Medieval: Total War)
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Rome: Total War (September 22, 2004)
- Barbarian Invasion (add-on for Rome: Total War)
- Alexander (add-on for Rome: Total War)
- Spartan: Total Warrior (October 24, 2005)
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Medieval 2: Total War (November 10, 2006)
- Kingdoms (add-on for Medieval 2: Total War)
- Empire: Total War (March 4, 2009)
- Napoleon: Total War (February 26, 2010)
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Total War: Shogun 2 (March 15, 2011)
- Fall of the Samurai (March 23, 2012) (playable without Shogun 2)
- Total War: Rome II (September 3, 2013)
- Total War: Attila (February 17, 2015)
- Total War: Warhammer (May 24, 2016)
- Total War: Warhammer II (September 27, 2017)
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia (May 3, 2018)
- Total War: Three Kingdoms (May 23, 2019)
- Total War Saga: Troy (August 13, 2020)
Other games:
- Viking: Battle for Asgard (March 28, 2008)
- Alien: Isolation (October 7, 2014)
- Halo Wars 2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History ( English ) The Creative Assembly. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- ↑ Why Creative Assembly is rapidly expanding its Total War game empire (interview) ( English ) Venturebeat. January 8, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- ↑ SEGA acquires Creative Assembly ( English ) Eurogamer.net. March 9, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- ↑ SEGA buys the former Crytek Studio . In: gameZINE.de . March 8, 2017 ( gamezine.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
- ^ Crytek Agrees Deal with SEGA and Creative Assembly for the Acquisition of Crytek Black Sea. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .