In the first part of this interview, The Creative Assembly's studio director, Mike Simpson talked about the importance of innovating in a franchise, the pressure of community expectation and how the original game in the Total War series nearly ended up as a "cheap B-grade Command & Conquer clone..."
Here in part two he addresses the long-standing PC gaming debate and whether it's under threat from consoles, as well as offering his thoughts on development costs, and explaining how decisions are made at the beginning of a project on which technological developments will find their way into the next game.
It’s Total War Week at the Humble Store. Games in the popular strategy franchise are up to 75 percent off.
PC Invasion: Classic Total War games such as Medieval II, Empire, and Napoleon now have their Definitive Editions which includes all the DLC. Players who already own the respective base games get the DLC as a free update.
If you didn't know, Time Commanders was a TV show that ran for 3 series back into the early noughties.
