Total War: ATTILA
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Large-scale real-time battles show soldiers cutting each other down with swords, axes, spears and arrows, with blood but no gory dismemberment in the base game.
The campaign dwells on the collapse of the Roman world through famine, plague and displaced refugee hordes, and lets the player sack, burn and raze entire settlements.
The setting carries a bleak, apocalyptic atmosphere of a dying empire and looming catastrophe rather than any explicit scares.
War animals such as horses and beasts are killed as ordinary units on the battlefield during combat.
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What it is
Total War: ATTILA is a historical strategy game set in the late Roman era, blending turn-based empire management on a campaign map with massive real-time battles. Players guide a faction — the crumbling Western Roman Empire, the rising East, the Huns, or migrating barbarian tribes — through an age of collapse marked by famine, plague and invasion. The core content is warfare: commanding armies of hundreds or thousands who clash with period weapons, with visible blood but no focus on gore or dismemberment in the base game. Beyond combat, the tone is heavy, centering on the fall of civilizations, and players can loot, burn and raze cities. There is no sexual content, strong language, or substance use.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence and destruction through the lens of history and survival, presenting the sacking of cities and the fall of empires as strategic outcomes rather than glorified acts, and it treats religious conversion and faction rivalry as neutral game mechanics that carry bonuses and penalties.
Details
- Developer
- CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Released
- Feb 17, 2015
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