Modern Total War Not Impossible, Says Creative Assembly

[Wicky_42]

Jump to future - TW was always better with melee than ranged, so bring on the Jedi and xenomorphic death machines, and a sci-fi twist opens up some seriously fun options. Then again, it could be too many options and lack the historical grounding that previous games have had. The again again, the more awesome historical periods have already largely been nailed. Maybe fantasy? The Total War engine would be AMAZING for a Wahammer Fantasy game! *hint hint, Games Workshop and Creative*

WW1 could work - sufficiently different from Empire, but not completely ranged-centric. Tech tree building through artillery technologies, chemical warfare, development of machine guns, early SMGs being the be-all end-all infantry weapon, small scope for cavalry, eventual development of early tanks, static defences - would require significant reworking of infantry AI, early airforces, naval warfare... man, WW1 would actually be a pretty good TW game after all!

 

[Spencer Petersen]

I thought God Hand was a top-down modern war strategy game that almost perfectly fits this. Im not sure another one is really necessary.

 

[Unknower]

I'd like a Fantasy Total War.

I want a skeleton army of doom!

 

[ThySensFan]

Screw a modern Total War. I want Middle-earth Total War.

As others have stated. Third Age: Total War is a really well made mod for Medieval 2: Total War. Its amazing what the modders have been able to do. I strongly recommend any Tolkien fan to try it out.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=374565

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Why not, Total War Halo, Total War Half Life, Total War LOTR, etc...

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Uh no. The last time CA tried to make a normal RTS, it turned out as Stormrise. Shit that is.

 

[The Harkinator]

If there was to be a Modern Day: Total War then there would need to be some sort of catalyst to plunge the world into war because the objective of a total war game is to rule the world. This catalyst should be able to bring back colonialism and empire building so that a player could be able to conquer the world. Say I'm playing as Britain, I would have armies in Afghanistan but what happens if N Korea and China invade the US? Considering the US and GB are miliatry allies I should join in, with more allies drawn in and battles fought all over the place. The eastern power bloc invading places such as Europe, India, Australia, US and the Western power bloc invading Korea, China and Russia etc. Then over the next 200 turns (100 years from summer 2010 till summer 2110) you can research technologies that we could see being used in the future, city combat will be used more often, squads work like irregulars in E:TW and Nukes are not used or barely at all. Imagine:
We N Korea invade the decadent capitalist western world!
We the west use our nukes to own your sorry ass!
DAMN!

 

[Thedayrecker]

Me and my friend were discussing this yesterday.... Clarvoiant much?

 

[bubba145]

World War 1 please

yes please WWI please.

 

[Kellerb]

They would really have to change everything, but if anyone can do it, it would be creative assembly. would be pretty fecking awesome, actually.

also, no rodgered city walls combat!

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Modern Total Warfare.

Sorry, had to be done.

 

[Darth_Dude]

Screw a modern Total War. I want Middle-earth Total War.

Ahem. There is a mod for Mediaval Total War 2 for that, http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=374565

Check it out, it's really cool.

EDIT There's also a mod for the mod which adds factions such as Dunland and the Galadrhim. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=323812

 

[Darth_Dude]

DAMN IT CA! BRING ME ROME 2 OR DEATH!

Well not really, but you get the idea.

 

[Plosion]

Just use company of heros with no base building and an overhead map for Europe. I'd play that.

 

[Dogstile]

That would be really quite odd. For some reason I'm more seeing WWI and II Total Way type games. It would be so bizarre to play them. Can you imagine coming up with the strategy that comprehensively won the Somme, or playing as the German army during D-Day?

And Total War's gameplay would need extensive changing.

Actually, there is a game that does the ww1/2 thing. Its called officers and its awesome. It would be better if it didn't have a crippling issue with a minidump bug that crashes your game though

 

[jamradar]

That would be strange. But I am open to the idea of it.

 

[Sarcastic_Applause]

i like either idea; i would like to see it work eventually up to it: going from napoleon to ww1 era into modern warfare. some aspects would be quite feasible, and i quite like the idea of diplomacy during the late 19th early 20th century, the different ideologies as well as the events at those times, 20th being incredibly turbulent.

One area i can see Creative assembly having a problem with would be the INSANE amount of variables in modern day diplomacy, trade, treaties, etc. it'd be far detached from the diplomacy of empire and medieval total war.

But an army of the damned hmm...

 

[CrystalShadow]

To be honest, it seems like it would be incredibly difficult.

Modern battle tactics, even leaving out huge explosives, tanks, aircraft, and so on, have next to nothing in common with the kind of battles the total war series is built around.

What would be left of the series here anyway?

Huge armies perhaps?

I suppose world war 1 might be vaguely plausible.

World war 2 might even be doable at a stretch, but beyond that...

It... Just doesn't seem like it would fit with the design of those games.

 

[KiKiweaky]

Would be hard to do, I think a larger form of company of heroes would be the result.

Besides a lack of melee combat D: ships engaging each other from miles away.... From their point of view not worth it I'd say.