Total War: Pharaoh director talks factions, gods, tips and tricks
Now that Total War: Pharaoh is out in the world, it feels like the perfect time to share our interview with game director Todor Nikolov, which was filmed back in August at the Gamescom 2023 conference.
You can watch the interview in the video above, and marvel at the epic backdrop provided by the game's booth at the conference!
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Telling RadioTimes.com about the origins of the project, Nikolov said, «We wanted to have a Total War title that's about Ancient Egypt, because Ancient Egypt is a very influential, very easily recognisable ancient civilization that a lot of people are interested in across the world.»
Specifically, the warring strategy game Total War: Pharaoh is set in the late Bronze Age, which Nikolov describes as «very much this pretty stable society where different kingdoms and civilisations interacted with one another, not that different from nowadays, but it collapsed and we don't know how it happened.»
This missing chapter of recorded history, Nikolov says, «gave us freedom to flesh out our characters in a way that makes sense within the historical context that we had, and also to accommodate different kinds of gameplay.»
Getting into the factions present in the game, he added: «We've got three rival cultures with different amounts of factions. We've got four Egyptians, two Canaanites and two Hittites.
»So, for example, one of the Canaanites is known from, I believe, one or two inscriptions where he's little more than a name.
«He's called Irsu, and he's described as someone who took over a portion of Egypt, or perhaps the entire Egypt. We're not certain. And he was really this terrible oppressor who did a lot of terrible
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