Creative Assembly has announced definitive editions for several classic Total War games.
The developer is definitive edition-izing Empire: Total War, Napoleon: Total War, and Medieval II: Total War, and owners of the original games will get the upgrades entirely free. Featured above, you can view a new trailer for the upgrades.
While these re-releases aren’t the 4K remasters we’ve seen for other classic strategy games, they’re essentially bundled re-releases, which include all of the post-launch DLC. This basically means if you only own the base game for any of these titles, you’re getting all the DLC free.
Here’s a rundown on each game and its contents:
Total War: EMPIRE – Steam Page
- Control the land and command the seas. Total War: EMPIRE immerses you in the Age of Enlightenment, a time of political upheaval, military advancements, and endless possibilities. BAFTA winning EMPIRE came out in 2009 to universal acclaim, scoring a 90 on Metacritic and huge scores of 95% from the likes of IGN and Game Informer.
- Includes: Elite Units of the East; Elite Units of America; The Warpath Campaign.
Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Steam Page
- Expand your reign in Total War: MEDIEVAL II. Make your mark in massive battles featuring up to 10,000 bloodthirsty troops throughout the most turbulent era in Western history. MEDIEVAL II came out in 2006 and was the 2007 winner of the Satellite Award for outstanding strategy game. It was also nominated for several awards, including BAFTA’s Games Award for both the main game and DLC.
- Includes: Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms
Total War: NAPOLEON – Steam Page
- From Italy to Waterloo, Total War: NAPOLEON covers two decades of relentless battles as the story of an extraordinary military career unfolds. Its score was critically claimed, receiving the IVOR Novello Award for Best Original Video Game Score in 2011.
- Includes: Coalition Battle Pack; The Peninsular Campaign; Imperial Eagle Pack; Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars
