E3 06: Alexander declares Total War

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted May 4, 2006 10:35 am PT

Sega announces digitally distributed expansion to Rome: Total War; legendary Macedonian conqueror to be focus.

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More than 2,000 years ago, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great dominated the world he knew and conquered the Persian Empire before dying at the age of 33.

Next month, gamers will get to see how they stack up against one of the greatest military leaders the world has known as Sega and The Creative Assembly release Rome: Total War - Alexander, the newest expansion pack to its PC real-time strategy game.

Alexander will allow users to re-create the leader's conquests with a new campaign map and six new historical battles that attempt to re-create the conditions and tactics used in his battles with Greek, Persian, and Indian forces. The campaign adds more than 60 new units and four new factions to the game, two of which will be the Macedonians and Persians.

Over the course of the historical battles, a series of movies featuring the voice work of Brian Blessed (Prince Vultan from Flash Gordon, and the wrestling trainer from Alexander) will tell the story of Alexander and set the stage for each battle.

Sega will release Rome: Total War - Alexander next month exclusively as a digital download from the official Sega, Sega Europe, and Total War Web sites.

53 Comments

  • Rotad

    Posted Aug 31, 2008 1:05 pm PT

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

  • Borungboy

    Posted May 18, 2006 5:42 pm PT

    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.

  • becoolman

    Posted May 15, 2006 4:52 am PT

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

  • Mystoksor

    Posted May 14, 2006 3:31 pm PT

    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.

  • wyked_wite

    Posted May 7, 2006 6:48 pm PT

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

  • am87

    Posted May 7, 2006 6:33 am PT

    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’s territory.

    Parvez retired to his palace, and his triumph was hailed as the final triumph of Persia over Greece and Rome, of Ormuzd over Christ, revenge for the battles of Marathon, Salamis, Plataea, and Arbela, and Alexander answered. Nothing remained of the Byzantine Empire except for a few maritime Asiatic ports (from Tyre to Trebizond), some fragments of Italy, Sicily, Africa, the Balkan coast, Greece, a besieged capital, and its navy, which was still unbeaten. The defeat was so bad, that when Heraclius ascended the throne he proclaimed to move the capital to Carthage, where it would be safe, but was stopped by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Ironically, in the end Parvez’s favorite wife, and the one with the most influence, was Christian, and once again Parvez, under influence of his wife, allowed tolerance of Christianity in Persia.
    thank you for taking your time in reading this i hope this didnt bore you but increase your knowedfe of what happened when persian took revenge of what happened and they answered for it well if i must say

  • correster

    Posted May 7, 2006 5:11 am PT

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

  • ShotGunBunny

    Posted May 7, 2006 4:47 am PT

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

  • DaemonRacer

    Posted May 7, 2006 3:48 am PT

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

  • bandreic

    Posted May 7, 2006 12:54 am PT

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

  • peterzhao333

    Posted May 6, 2006 6:37 pm PT

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

  • savior_44

    Posted May 6, 2006 3:44 pm PT

    Good news

  • The_Bad_Gay

    Posted May 6, 2006 8:16 am PT

    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.

  • leonard_necula

    Posted May 6, 2006 6:45 am PT

    ya its going to be free

  • Hellraiser3899

    Posted May 5, 2006 8:52 pm PT

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

  • ROBERTBOBBY91

    Posted May 5, 2006 3:34 pm PT

    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!

  • lavalleema

    Posted May 5, 2006 12:57 pm PT

    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!"

  • lockstock

    Posted May 5, 2006 10:10 am PT

    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.

  • andrewcb

    Posted May 5, 2006 8:13 am PT

    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.

  • Nimroc

    Posted May 5, 2006 4:48 am PT

    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.

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