The heroes themselves are powerful fighters who can take on entire units themselves. That’s not to say that there aren’t nods to the mythical within the game. Instead the developers have used the fictional stories of Greek myth to help flesh out the missing historical elements.Īs Georgieva explains, “the Iliad and Odyssey enable us to do stuff that just the historical record doesn't, so it gives us characters people can relate to, names that speak to our players and provoke emotions”. It’s a necessary approach for a time period that is not as well-recorded as any other Total War setting: “the fact is that there is just not enough historical data for us to do a fully historical title for that period”, Vasilev tells me. It’s neither pure fantasy, like the Warhammer games, or pure history, like other Total War titles.Ī lot of the publicity on Troy has centred on revealing the “truth behind the myth”, but the developers have taken the position that the events described in the Iliad and Odyssey do have some historical basis behind them. The Trojan War setting is a bit of a departure for Creative Assembly.

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