Our favourite community things #1
It’s a familiar scene. While we’re busily working away on Total War, perhaps over a cup of tea, someone starts playing a video featuring one of our games. Before you know it there’s a crowd of people checking out the cool stuff playing.
Our community seem to have really taken making movies in Total War to their hearts – and we’re massive fans of a lot of the awesome content the community has generated. With that in mind, here’s a roundup of some of our favourite videos:
“The Perfect War” – Robert Stoneman
We loved this one so much, we hired the guy who made it! Rob Stoneman became one of our cinematics guys and was responsible for some of the trailers and in-game movies in Shogun 2. We’re staggered that someone could make something this cool with absolutely no tools.
Total War: Shogun 2 – Duels (Ninja – Heroes…) – Naxzul666
We stumbled across this video today, thanks to TWC. We love the energy and camera movement – and this video really shows off the awesome mocap we spent a lot of time developing for Total War. Shogun 2 has the most complex set of animations of any TW game, and this video throws the spotlight right on it.
Pure Beauty – xHerzoGx
It’s another gorgeous video from TWC’s community – this one showing off the lovely environments in Shogun 2. We love the “red bridge” shot. One un-named member of the team almost broke down when he saw it, muttering something in a high-pitched voice as a tear rolled down his cheek. Alright, it was me.
The saddest thing I’ve seen so far on Shogun 2 – CurlyHooligan
This genuinely made us laugh and also feel sad, and for that reason it’s in there. Comedy is always good and the team always appreciate cheering up on a gloomy Monday morning, so please keep them coming! This poor samurai takes on the world only to… well, you’ll see.
Napoleon Total War Machinima History – Megadokuro
And one for the history buffs, of which there are many here at CA. This one gets bonus marks for use of post-processing filters and wobbly battle-cam photography!
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If you have video you think we should include, email rallypoint@creative-assembly.com and we might include your video in the next roundup. Until then, happy shooting!
-Craig and the whole team at The Creative Assembly
Hi,
that is one of the main reasons why i love to play this game so much, the esthetic – the beautyness of the Buildings, the inviorments, the armours or alone the campaign-map – a painted silk-cloth. I have been playing this game over 400 h already and I can not stop. I hope you will release a lot of add ons in future like for example the mongolian invasions or somthing about the kamakura-period.
Many, many greetings and good luck to you!
Max
Posted by Max Ataman on June 17th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
This is awsome! I have seen some of these before but not all of them. Everytime I watch these it just makes me want to play even more!
Posted by doinwork34 on June 18th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Fail ninja, use stealth, somebody failed ninja 101
Posted by Macintosh on June 20th, 2011 at 12:03 am
can you please tell me in secret what the next game in the total war is that youre working on now id love to know
Posted by sammy on August 15th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
I love the series and I think youre doing a great job in all fields. The thing is though when ever a new game in the series comes out I need to buy new things for my computer to meet the requirements. Point is I think it would be great if you introduced the series to Xbox360 or the other systems. I would appreciate it if you would respond to this thank you.
Posted by Josh on October 15th, 2011 at 2:37 am
can you make a game from 1850-1920 so my life can be complete. call it Victoria:Total War or somethin like that
Posted by zak on October 18th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
I have to agree with comment #6 the years of 1850 – 1920 would be an exciting area covering the entire world from America to Australia . That would complete my life!
Posted by Josh on November 6th, 2011 at 2:29 am
hi,
although there are already 2 newer total war games i love playing empire total war up to now. the reason for this is that there are much more opportunities and it is much more strategic as there are not only simple melees but also distance fights with artillery and muskets were you have to use the terrain and occupy high ground or buildings. it is therefore not as simple as just “sword fighters beat phalanx in melee”. so i would love to see absolotism total war (1600-1700) featuring colonization of the new world, trade routes to asia, religious conflicts or imperialism total war (1815-1914) featuring the whole world, gathering for resources.
perhaps the following ideas help you improve gameplay:
- morale or victory points for capturing strategic positions in battles (hills, bridges, buildings) which are added to casualty points. so you don’t always have to destroy the whole enemy army for victory and it therefore reflects much better the real casualty rates (20-50%)
- improvements of trade in the campaign modus (a player needs wood to produce ships or iron to produce muskets or artillery) – it would improve the apetite for resources (especially of interest in the imperialism game)
- targets for wars in campaings so that a peace is not always that far away and you don’t always have to stay in war with a specific nation for the rest of the game
- the discover of the map feature of shogun 2 was a good one (especially interesting for absolutism total war and the conquer of the new world)
- better music (eg playing marches) when infantery attacks as a lot of mods have shown interest for that
Posted by keppelmueller on November 16th, 2011 at 6:34 pm