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Rome: Total War used for history programme

Posted on Wednesday, 19 May 2004 by Speed, source: Fragland

Wired is reporting that Activision's upcoming RTS Rome: Total War will be used by The History Channel to recreate certain historical battles on TV

Decisive Battles, a 13-episode, half-hour series that debuts July 17, makes use of British video-game developer The Creative Assembly's Rome: Total War PC game, which Activision will publish this fall. The real-time strategy game received an award for strategy game of the year at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video-game industry's largest trade show.

Well, PC Games are getting more and more mainstream it seems :)

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S_C_S_I (old)

The game was already being used by a special prpgramme on BBC2, where one team of people would replay a historical battle against the CPU (which acted like the historical opponent would have). Quite a fun program, which ran for several weeks.

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Posted on 13:34, May 19th 2004

xiin

that was Rome: Total War ? omg :| why didn't i notice
btw: that show was idd rather nice (but why did they need 2 people to operate the units ... ? )

that was Rome: Total War ? omg :| why didn't i notice btw: that show was idd rather nice (but why did they need 2 people to operate the units ... ? )

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Posted on 17:40, May 19th 2004

S_C_S_I (old)

The show was called Time Commanders and was supported by The Creative Assembly. The team just gave orders to peeps behind some pc's. But I remember reading somewhere that it wasn't the final product. Anyway, a nice method of beta-testing. :)

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Posted on 11:10, May 21st 2004