Needless to say, getting to the promised land is not easy. While you still can play around with fortifying conquered towns and setting up garrisons (there is no diplomacy available at all here), to do so means that you'll never occupy enough areas before the sands run through the hourglass and Alexander's life comes to a youthful end. This is a Macedonian rush to get Big Al roughly to the border of India while holding 30 provinces before the clock runs out and the gods spirit him away to Olympus (or he gets drunk and dies, depending on which version you want to believe). It changes the focus of the original Rome: Total War by dropping any pretense of building and diplomacy in favor of a 100-turn slugfest that favors battles over Rome's turn-based deliberation, so if you're expecting lots of political intrigue and empire-building, you might not find what you're looking for. This content is more than enough, though, largely because the campaign is so challenging that most players will spend many, many hours experimenting with different ways to beat it. For that fee, you get one campaign encompassing Alexander's blitz of the Near East, six historical battles from Alexander's early career, and new multiplayer options, where you can set up two-on-one and three-on-one matches and tournaments online. The add-on's scope is a bit more limited than the previous Rome: Total War expansion pack, Barbarian Invasion, as befitting its download-only distribution at a cut-rate price of $14.95. The great man himself, about to ride Bucephalus into battle. The game provides an illuminating lesson on just how tough of a task the monarch set for himself when he journeyed out to conquer the known world in 335 BC, and it's a splash of cold Grecian wine in the face of Total War-series veterans who think they've done it all. This latest, download-only addition to The Creative Assembly's long-running series of historic epics is so spectacularly difficult that even the legendary Macedonian conqueror would have a rough go of subduing those pesky Persians. Alexander the Great supposedly once said, 'There is nothing impossible to him who would try.' Well, he never played his namesake expansion pack for Rome: Total War.

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