It’s a whole different world.”For Koei Tecmo to be tackling the national story of China, a near neighbour with which Japan has a long and complicated history, is a bit like a French studio taking on the stories of King Arthur, or a British studio making a game about Charlemagne and his paladins. Total War: THREE KINGDOMS. © Copyright Games Workshop Limited 2015. "The two most common things in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity." In many senses the series needed a reboot.”Having embraced RPG mechanics for its fantastical foray in Total War: Warhammer, Total War took a similar path in tackling the Three Kingdoms. Inspired by Luo Guanzhong’s 14th Century historical novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, this epic strategy game follows the dramatic lives of near-mythical warring lords and their retainers in 2nd to 3rd century China. And the reason for that is, I think for both periods, that they are times of romance as well as drama. That means Koei will have to improve it games drastically if it wants to compete. Fans seem to have noticed. Koei Tecmo has been at the forefront of adapting the semi-historical classic of Chinese literature, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, for decades. Compared to ROTK XIII, imo Total War 3k is in an entirely different league. All rights reserved. I prefer the Total War ones. “Challenges like, what if my favorite character – and for me it was always Cao Cao – what if Cao Cao could conquer the entire world? Especially how they've managed to incorporate a lot the key aspects of the Koei characters into that. That has remained unchanged throughout the series. It's a Total War game. Workshop Limited, variably registered around the world, and used under licence. "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." The three kingdoms form Cao Cao is the powerhouse with most of the north under his belt. Total War: Three Kingdoms and Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV have different angles, but equal reverence for the subject matterThe Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 14th-century novel that paints a dashingly fantastical portrait of the wars that followed the collapse of China’s Han Empire in the 2nd century. Moderator:Sanada. “In our earlier titles, Xiahou Dun was the more useful character, with the higher stats. Top 3---PC Strategy---Three kingdoms game series (except TW: TK) I guess CA doesn't know it There are tons of historical strategy Three Kingdoms games in the market, most Asian players know it, Unfortunately, most western players just know about KOEI's Dynasty Warriors series which is called "no brain mowing game" by Chinese players. Unlike in Game of Thrones – in which most characters are out for power for its own sake – there’s a philosophical component to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I play both and enjoy both. They’re all trying to do their bestUnlike Creative Assembly, which was coming fresh to the source material, Koei Tecmo has been making strategy games about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for no less than 35 years in a series of games that share the novel’s title. “I had a chat with one of our colleagues and they were saying a certain character is still used, today, as the boogieman for children in China. These cutting room-floor ideas are compounded with gamers’ feedback – an endless wishlist of ideas that people would like to see in future titles – to inspire a fresh approach.There’s a lot of new media which looks at the story from different perspectivesAnd yet it speaks to the universality of Three Kingdoms’ themes, and to its continuing hold on imaginations across Asia and the world, that, Koei Tecmo can find yet more inspiration from external developments.“It doesn’t always have to be an internal process – the outside world provides plenty of new angles,” he continues. “The novel is a moral tale, at least to a certain extent,” Mann points out. This website uses cookies for functionality, analytics and advertising purposes as described in our Kevana. Even though we depict Dong Zhou as a tyrant, our internal discussions always acknowledged that he was witnessing the collapse of the Han Empire and trying to find solutions for it.