Gamereactor fick nyligen chansen att snacka med Mike Simpson från Creative Assembly om Total War, hur det är att arbeta med Sega och mycket annat. Men vi passade även på att ta reda på lite om framtidsplanerna:
"We effectively have a list. We have a constant list of things that we would like to do one day, and the different periods of history, the different places around the world that match our criteria one way or nother, and we just argue about the order on the list, and eventually we're going to get to all of them. It's going to take a while, but I'm sure we will cover everything eventually. So it's just a case of the order in which we do stuff."
Vi vet att många av er är sugna på ett Total War-spel i moderna miljöer, så vi tog och frågade om just detta - och fick ett tämligen överraskande svar:
"Modern's interesting. Modern, when you start getting into the 20th century, the game engines that currently stand can deal with it to some extent but would need quite major revisions to deal with it well. I think we could make a World War 1 game with our current technology, but I don't think a World War 1 game would be much fun. Fun is not a world you'd normally associate with World War 1; there's something too raw and unpleasant about that whole period, which makes it difficult."
Simpson fortsatte att prata om moderna Total War-spel och visade att detta är något de verkligen funderat på:
"World War 2 is obviously a much more popular time to set a game in, but the scale is completely different to the type of thing our engine does, so we would have to do something completely different for that. So yes, we do talk about modern era from time to time. It's on the list, don't know when we're going to get to that. It could be a long time."
Kort sagt verkar det inte alls omöjligt att det kommer ett Total War-spel som utspelas under nyare krig. Däremot lär det inte ske den närmsta tiden, studions senaste spel, Total War: Attila, släpptes ju som bekant helt nyligen och du kan kolla in recensionen på denna länk.
