Game Groups > Total War series

Total War is a series of hybrid turn-based strategy/real-time tactics war games developed by The Creative Assembly, focusing on strategies of historical warfare such as battle formations, shock troops, moral degradation, army fatigue and siege strategies. Up to this point, the themes introduced are either historical war strategies or fictional (specifically, Warhammer-licensed).

Gameplay in this series (up to this point) is identifiable by certain distinctions:

1. a diagonal-down perspective turn-based political map; where the player develops structural buildings on controlled provinces to increase revenue, equip and recruit armies;
2. a diagonal-down (camera rotatable) perspective specifically for real-time battle sessions.

Related links

• The Art of Total War (article on CVG about the series' history, 27 January 2009)