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Homeric Ho-Hum
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/27/2020
There are many genres and subgenres of game that I simply don’t bother with. Some of these, like the eminently-detestable Roguelike, assaulted and offended my sensibilities through direct experience. Others, like the beloved-on-PC Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and 4X genres never even piqued my interest in the first place. But sometimes things I don’t care about overlap with things I really like. And while I would never stoop to playing the latest hot, new Roguelike in spite of its crossover with classical mythology (*coughHadescough*), for genres I don’t outright loathe, the possibility of getting me to bite does, indeed, exist.
When Sega’s Creative Assembly dev studio announced a new game in the long-running ‘Total War’ series that would be based on Homer’s Iliad, it got my …
