Next Total War game?

[Tully Bascombe]

I'd like to see someone merge the history spanning time scope of the Civilization series, the world spanning scope of the Europa Universalis series, and the intermixture of strategic and tactical play of the Total War series. Then I'd like to see the addition of a feature allowing the player to assume the role of a combatant during battles, a sort of mini-fighting/role-playing game.

You'd never need to buy another game................until someone developed the galactic version.

[César Victor]

I think modernish TW games wouldn't be too fun. TW, for me, is all about marching vast armies into hand to hand combat with arrows raining down and cavalry outrunning everything. Battles that last an hour etc. You wouldn't get this if the game featured modern units.

I'd like to see Napoleonic combat but, if they were to do that, I think naval combat would have to be comletely redesigned.

[Monarch]

CV, I think you're exactly right. And lets face it, the next game is supposedyl the "revolution", now, CA can't just give us all another graphics upgrade and call it a revolution (this was ok mtw to rtw becuase its was 2d to 3d, which is major). This isn't console gaming, after all.

Something like naval warfare would be a major new feature they could flaunt.

Also on the mp side of things...you could have naval mp battles which would own

[Tristrem]

I would rather have a game with no naval combat that had balanced battles and no gamebreaking flaws. They should perfect land battles long before they even think about moving into the naval theater. And if they do not have naval combat it should be abstract and simple like MTW with sea regions. A RTW, M2TW, type map doesn't work for abstract naval battles because you just end up playing ping pong until 5 turns later a ship sinks.

If there was another total war game I would love to see them make would have different campaigns to choose from. It could be like EUIII where they have a many different starting dates, one every 200 years, and you could pick any faction in the world. This could start at the rise of greece and end after the American Civil War ( the last possible war that total war battles would be good with). Then everyone could pick and country they wanted in almost any time period and create their own total war. (However this would probably be very costly and could take years upon years to create). One possiblity would be to buy the engine, the original game, and then be able to buy additional expansion time periods, kinda like how the SIMS games work, you don't need to expansion, but if you get it you recieve tons of bonus features. Plus with this system CA could milk the player base out of oodles of money, plenty to fund further efforts and expansions. Now that is an idea that is revolutionary, not just add some naval battle eye candy.

But if they continue on the current path I would like to see a Byzantium total war, Rise of Islam tw, mongol tw, or maybe even a rise of russia total war going from the mongol invasions to the communist revolution.

[Xehh II]

Byzantium tw, Rise of islam tw and Rise of Russia tw would not be very good but I support Mongol tw and the first idea.

[Lord Cazaric]

Rise of Islam totar war would be pathetic. (Hm, I sound like a tw addict! Grr!) It would be all set around the same time, with not that much happening. It's the same with Byzantium TW. Mongol total war would be great however, as its so in-depth and long, with Genghis, Tamerlane (founder of the Timurids) and the siege of Baghdad...could be fun.

However, I'd prefer Greece total war, as there are MANY city-states to play as. eg. Sparta, Athens, Argos, Mycenae, Corinth, Pylos, Thrace and others. You could even add in a Trojan civilisation if it showed the western coast of modern Turkey, as they actually did exist.

[Lord Cazaric]

And Medieval 3 Total War would be the most pointless waste of space ever. So soon after number 2 came out, nothing would be new or better. *yawns* Boring.

[caravel]

Rise of Islam totar war would be pathetic. (Hm, I sound like a tw addict! Grr!) It would be all set around the same time, with not that much happening.

I totally disagree that it would be pathetic, but I do doubt it would be very popular.

Correctly implemented it would make for a fascinating campaign, and would be a welcome break from the samey world map with generic provinces and factions that we've had since MTW1.

Starting in the 7th century and continuing until the 12th with the end of the Fatimid Caliphate. The map could cover a smaller area including the Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Iran etc.