Total War Saga: Troy review — Island hopping my way to Troy

At turn 129 in my campaign, I realized that my journey in Total War Saga: Troy might never lead me to the windy plains of Troy. As the wronged lord Menelaus, I was flanked by a very untrustworthy Achilles on the one side and a very strong Hector, prince of Troy, and his cousin, Aeneas, on the other.

And so I concluded that if I must rewrite Homer’s The Iliad, then I must. Rewriting the epic story of the Trojan War is one of the core fantasies of the game from Sega’s The Creative Assembly, which has been making Total War strategy games for two decades. To date, those games have sold more than 25 million copies. But they’ve mostly been about history, until recently, when they’ve expanded into myths.