Total War: Attila

Total War: Attila
Studio	Creative assembly
Publisher	Sega
Erstveröffent- lichung	Windows February 17, 2015
platform	Windows
Game engine	Warscape
genre	Combination of real-time strategy game and turn-based strategy game
Subject	Migration of peoples , fall of the Roman Empire
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer
control	Mouse , keyboard
system advantages preconditions	OS : Windows Vista / 7 / 8 CPU : 3 GHz (two cores) RAM : 3 GB Graphics card : 512 MB Storage requirement (HDD) : 35 GB
medium	DVD-ROM , download
language	English , German , French , Italian , Spanish
Age rating	USK PEGI
information	The PEGI rating refers to the DLC "Blood and Burning".

Total War: Attila is the ninth installment in the Total War computer strategy game series by the British developer studio Creative Assembly . It was announced on September 25, 2014 and was released on February 17, 2015.

Attila is strongly based on its predecessor Total War: Rome II , and is set at the time of the Great Migration .

Gameplay

Total War: Attila takes place from 395 AD in the time of the Great Migration and the fall of the Western Roman Empire . The player can choose between ten different factions, but this number can be expanded by purchasing various add-ons.

The system that first appeared in Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion , which allowed certain peoples to act as so-called "hordes", was taken up again and further developed. This means that the faction is not allowed to hold any settlements, but only consists of their armies. However, cities can still be looted or pillaged. Another new feature is the pillage system, which allows conquered cities not to be occupied and integrated into their realm, but also to be completely destroyed and thus temporarily disappeared from the map.

The game contains a total of nine historical battles, including the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields , the Battle of Adrianople and the Battle of Soissons .

Factions

In Total War: Attila ten factions are playable at the beginning. More followed as DLCs .

The eponymous Attila belongs to the Huns . However, this is not playable from the start. First a message appears around the year 400 that Attila was born. However, he will only be able to be used as a general when he has reached the required age.

The Western Roman Empire is considered the most difficult faction. Despite its size at the beginning of the game, it is confronted with many domestic and foreign policy problems: Due to the invading barbarian tribes, the Western Roman Empire is already in conflict with many barbarian factions from the start of the game; there are also some internal revolts.

The counterpart to this is the Eastern Roman Empire . It's not quite as big as Westrom, but it still has to struggle with the invading barbarian tribes. However, the domestic political conditions in Eastern Stream are much more stable.

As the late antique successor to the Persian Empire , the Sassanid Empire is playable. It is located in the area east of the Eastern Roman Empire and roughly extends over present-day Iraq and Iran .

The Franks are at the beginning in what is now the Netherlands. The Saxons start in the Friesland area . At the beginning your troops are distributed in such a way that it is possible to plunder Britain directly . This is to show how the Saxons and Angles came to Britain.

The Alans are near the Huns, from which they are fleeing. The vandals start in what is now the Czech Republic .

The Ostrogoths and the Visigoths are two playable factions that start on the northern border of the Eastern Roman Empire. Your armies are ready to plunder Ostrom.

The factions of the Huns , Vandals , Alans , Ostrogoths and Visigoths start as "Horde" at the beginning of the game. This means that they start without a settlement and only have their armies, with which they can also set up camp to build buildings. As soon as you occupy a city with one of these factions and do not plunder or pillage, you lose your “horde status” and become a normal faction that controls cities (with the exception of the Huns, who cannot settle down).

Other factions that have been integrated into the game as a playable faction for free over time are the Lachmids , Suebi , Hephthalites (White Huns) and Garamanten .

Sales versions

A Steam account is required to use the game . Pre-orderers of the game received the Viking ancestors DLC with 3 additional playable factions ( Gauten , Jutes and Danes ) for free. There is also a special edition that contains the DLC, a biography about Attila and a poster with an overview of the playable factions and the playing card.

The second DLC long beards came out on May 4th, 2015. With him the Lombards , Alemanni and Burgundians came as playable factions. On May 25, 2015 the third faction package was added, with which the Celtic Picts , Ebdani and Caledonians became playable.

On June 25, 2015, the expansion Total War: Attila - The Last Roman was released . It is a new campaign that begins in 533 and deals with the attempts to recapture the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. The title “The Last Roman” refers to Justinian's general Belisarius , whose campaigns in the west can be replayed on a new campaign map. There are also new troops and technologies. There are five playable factions: In addition to the Eastern Roman expedition, the West and Ostrogoths, the Vandals and the Franks.

On September 15, 2015, the expansion appeared empires of sand which Aksum and Himyar and the trunk of the Tanukhiden who starts as Horde, playable made. In addition, two new religions were brought into play with Judaism and Eastern Christianity.

On 10 December 2015, the extension was Age of Charlemagne ( The Age of Charlemagne published). This expansion takes place in the early Middle Ages (starting year: 768 AD) and depicts the rise of Charlemagne. The following fractions are playable: Kingdom of Charlemagne , Kingdom of Asturias , Avars , Emirate of Cordoba , Kingdom of the Danes , Kingdom of the Lombards , Kingdom of Mercia and Westphalia .

reception

reviews publication Rating 4players 80/100 Game revolution 4/5 GameSpot 7/10 GameStar 87% IGN 8.1 / 10 PC Games 88% Meta-ratings GameRankings 79.17% Metacritic 80/100

Overall, the game was rated positively. The scenario and sensible changes were praised. For all its complexity, the new part does well in comparison to its direct predecessor Total War: Rome II , which suffered from serious technical defects when it was released. The website Metacritic , which collects and evaluates test reports, assigned a meta-rating of 80 out of 100 points on the basis of 66 reviews that were described as "generally positive" ( generally favorable ).

Web links

• Official website
• Official Total War Wiki section on Total War: Attila
• Achim Fehrenbach: Too late, the Huns are coming! . In: Zeit Online , February 17, 2015.
• Total War: Attila in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Total War: Attila at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Weigel: Europe will burn! In: GameStar . International Data Group , February 12, 2015, accessed February 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Presentation via YouTube
3. ^ Official Total War Wiki , accessed February 14, 2015.
4. ↑ Information on the Special Edition in the Total War Wiki , accessed on February 14, 2015.
5. ^ TJ Hafer: Total War: Attila Review. In: IGN Entertainment . Ziff Davis , February 12, 2015, accessed February 22, 2015 . 
6. ^ Matti Sandqvist: Total War: Attila. In: PC Games . Computec Media Group , February 17, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2015 . 
7. ^ Meta evaluation "Attila: Total War". In: GameRankings . CBS Corporation , accessed April 3, 2015 . 
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