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Sega gives us a tantalizing taste of Total War: Attila (preview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Total War: Attila is the next big installment in the Total War series developed by Sega’s The Creative Assembly studio. The game is shipping sometime in 2015, but I’ve gotten a good look at it in a preview.

Attila is a kind of sequel to Total War: Rome II, the massive real-time strategy game that debuted in 2013. It’s based on the same engine, and it uses a lot of the same strategic map of Europe and near-Asia as Rome II. But while Rome II focused on the rise of the Roman Empire, Total War: Attila takes place during the decline and fall of that empire as the barbarian hordes, such as those led by Attila the Hun, put it on the defensive.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.