E3 06: Alexander declares Total War

Nice copy and paste action am87. By the way the Sassanids are the successors.

Got to say the Rome Series to Total War have been the worst yet and I did especially feel a bit ripped off by Babarian. Especially as the AI sucked so much.

whooa! Medieval 2 is coming! and also this Alexander expansion for Rome Total war! ToTal War RuLEZZZ!

Will this be available for CD release do you think? The last digital version of a game I tried was for FEAR and the results were disastrous. Pray this will come out in CD format.

yea wasn't Medieval 2 suppose to come out first how cum dis 1 is comin out before Medieval 2

not a lot of ppl know about the persian empire beside it got beaten by Alexander war, here is what happened when the fury of Persia was unleasehed to westerneurope the reults are devistating, all the writing after this is abstructs from history jounals. and by the ay the sassanids are simply predasesors of the persians they are still persians if you didnt know that. When The Byzantine Emperor Maurice, who had placed Parvez on the Persian throne and was a dear friend to Parvez, was murdered and replaced by Phocas as emperor, Parvez declared war on Byzantium in an attempt to get revenge on the usurper. The Sassanid armies took Dara, Amida, Edesa, Hierapolis, Aleppo, Apamea, Caesarea, Damascus, and all of the surrounding cities all within eight years (605-613). Now that Parvez was inflamed with success, he had the tolerance that had once flourished within the Persian Empire since Achaemenid times undone. He declared a holy war against the Christians Following his announcement, 26,000 Jews joined his army and in 614 Jerusalem fell to the Persians. Christians were massacred, their churches burned to the ground and the True Cross carried off to Persia. In 616 the Persians captured Alexandria and by 619 all of Egypt (to the border of Ethiopia) was once again under Persian rule. In the meanwhile, another Persian army overran Asia Minor in 617 and captured Chalcedon. The Persians held the city for ten years, and were only separated from Constantinople by the Bosporus. Parvez taxed the former Byzantine provinces into destitution (which would later leave nothing to stop the Arabs from overrunning both empires), and for the first time in many years, one side was able to hold the other

This is going to amazing!! ive been waiting for this!!

This should rule, The time period of Alexander has always been one of my favorite settings.

I like the idea, goes along TW:Spartan for the consoles, but is it a free download?

Great! We'll have something to play till medieval 2 is realesed :D

Wow... I hope they make nicer units this time :D

Good news

This'd better be free... If it isn't, don't buy it guys. There are tons of user-made complete overhauls for the game already. If some 'modders' would band together they'd have an Alexander modification up in less than2 weeks and with more content, no doubt.

ya its going to be free

Huzzah... another game I will spend countless hours playing while shunning all that I have

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiik! this looks good, i wonder if the graphics get a boost( im making a modern war mod tis summer, got my abrams, m113s and a bunch more YEA!

I was once a "Great". But then I realized that you can't conquer Seattle - it's already been conquered, and once you conquer a place once, conquering it again kinda cancels it out. In the words of Dogbert "I shall rule with an iron paw!"

Yeah! Total War Kicks! Still want to hear of a change in era though, hanging round the ancient world is all too easy. Let's hear it for renaissance Europe, city states and mercenary armies.

When are they going to patch Barbarian Invasions. Grumble. If the Macedonian faction in RTW is to be of any guide, it'd be a walkover.

This is not really new info but still good. There was a short article with pictures in the march issue of the swedish PCGamer so I did wonder when they would fully announce it.

great :D but i'm more focused on Mediavel

I am Spartacus! I am Spartacus! I am Spartacus! I am Spartacus! I'M BRIAN BLESSED!

This sucks, i'll be 33 in a few years and i haven't conquered crap.

awesome

Hope Sega can pull it off this time around.

I hope they don't screw this up it could be really good

well, could not care less, why are they working on a second expansion, put more time for mtw2 instead.

There goes a month of my life, again.

woooohoooooo! Long Live Total War (still not better than cilvilization IV)

woooohoooooo! Long Live Total War (still not better than cilvilization IV)

Very cool

Sounds awesome.

Cool news, but is it free or what?

Sweet... I just hope they improve on the AI of Rome: Total War.

this is a great news

i want Ghangis Khan dunnit

Awesome

Why is the title Rome still there? Shouldn't it just be called Total War: Alexander? I mean, Alexander had nothing to do with Rome. Rome was nothing but a lowly village when Alexander was conquering Asia so the tilte is misleading.

And the most useless comment award goes to Dergy. In other news, the fact that I'm trapped on dial-up until probably sometime next year makes me sad to learn that it is download-only. Ah well, like someone else mentioned, hopefully they'll release a special edition of the game that includes the expansion.

Great!

cool

Indian forces? Sound rocking.

hehe...fun fact about our boy alex...he was a homo. lol...no joke! but he was "bie" too. its ok thou...back 2000 years ago, the male body was worshiped for his purity while the females was lacking...pretty much in the 3rd leg department. so male bonding was actually tolerated! lol....i hope u dont choke on your cheese cake Larry

Alexander the great conoquered the knowen world, but he was STILL beat out by Spongebob Squarepants at the box office well if anything i hope this is better then the game based on the moive

Woo hoo another expansion to one of the best strategy games ever.

I hope there will be a deluxe edition of Total War with this expansion included. I still want to get this game.

woo! this is excellent news.

Will it be available for free to download or what :S

well pretty cool but it kinda smells like a marketing trick bearing in mind that Medieval 2 is on the way

I never really liked the Rome side of the total war series but this could good. Medieval 2 will be the best though.