The latest Humble Bundle has a handful of games us co-op gamers will want to take a look at. The collection is filled with strategy games from Sega, which means we get a whole lot of warfor not a whole lot of cash.
The team down at Creative Assembly must have a grim view on history. They've spent the better part of a decade and a half chronicling mankind's legacy as one giant brawling bloodbath, and probably won't stop until every notable period is steeped in gore. They couldn't handle the gap between the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages being free of strife, so they made Total War: Attila to prove that even in the 5th Century you could still hurl hundreds of dudes to their heavy cavalry-related deaths with relative ambivalence. Now they've closed that gap even further with the announcement of Attila's first expansion: The Age of Charlemagne, out December 10th.
When I envision Attila and his Hunnic hordes, a very specific set of images are conjured. Towns and cities being pillaged and burned. Arguments over a flagon of booze quickly escalating to all-out brawls and, occasionally, decapitation. Post-battle parties flowing deep into the night with all sorts of debauchery on display. The course the Hun...
Let me set the scene for you. Two scouts, ravenously hungry, sore from hours of blocking, swinging, and scrambling, sit by a campfire. No words pass between the two. The only indication an outsider could use to surmise their relationship is the passing of a wooden cup of water every now and again. They are staring into the waning flames when a sound echoes in the distance. Horns. The savage horde of mongrels they beat back just hours ago is somehow on the move again, but how? It couldn't be...unless their worst fear is being confirmed. The mood darkens as the two realize their fight is unwinnable, that there is no victory when one is faced when an unending tide of bloodthirsty, half-crazed warriors.
