And the helmet has been put on in a little bit of a hurry. But for all of its tweaks to the general formula, which are largely welcome, it still has the feeling of the same old soldier, wearing a different helmet. It's certainly better than Thrones Of Britannia, its predecessor in the Saga subseries. And it's a good one, for what it's worth. What I am saying, of course, is that Troy is another Total War game. But I would also wonder why, after all the time and effort it had clearly taken to make something so impressive, its makers hadn't taken another year and made it perfect. In this mythical world, I would be completely blown away by Super Iliad Guys, with its astonishing two-for-one of a cracking RTS game stacked on top of a sweeping military 4X game, and its first class, ochre-heavy art direction. Let's pretend A Total War Saga: Troy was just called Super Iliad Guys - which it should be called anyway - but had otherwise come out of the blue exactly as it is.
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Let's pretend there was no such thing as the Total War series of games. Developer: Creative Assembly, Feral Interactive.
But despite some campaign layer innovations, and a new phase of Creative Assembly's relationship with fantasy, it's still carrying a lot of the series' baggage. A Total War Saga: Troy has possibly the most vibrant period identity of any TW game to date, and a strong narrative focus that lives up to the "saga" in the name.