See? The thumping movements of attacks, the crumbling tokens, the cute battlegrounds, all that. But if the game’s decent enough beneath all that, sure, that’s fine. Familiar dressing eases people into the new, and it’s not like Hearthstone didn’t crib from some of the best. Total War: Elysium will have singleplayer and multiplayer battling. It’s only based on historical Total War games (no copyright, right?) so sadly we shan’t see Marie Antoinette rip the beard clean off a Dwarven Slayer, nor Skavenslaves picking their teeth with Napoleon Bonaparte’s bones. Though it is apparently set in a legendary city. Creative Assembly say Elysium will start closed beta testing on pocket telephones this month, rolling out waves of players. If you’re interested, you can sign up over here. And then, they say, the PC release will come “later this year.” Oh, and I’d wondered before if Bony was holding real Elysium cards in that picture. A new high-res version shows: yup!
