

Opposite Egypt, across the sea, we'll also get to battle for Anatolia, the peninsula today which makes up most of modern Turkey. Heading North, we'll get to explore Canaan, the region we usually refer to today as the Levant. We'll fight over the Nile Valley as far South as Nubia and Kush – modern-day Sudan, basically. While we haven't gotten to see the campaign map yet, I was able to get a few details on it.

The mysterious Sea Peoples are coming, and as a variety of competing leaders from the Egyptian, Hittite, and Canaanite cultures, it will be up to us to weather the storm. But much as Ramesses III led Egypt out of this dark era, Creative Assembly's Sofia studio (which most recently released the semi-mythological A Total War Saga: Troy) brings us Total War: Pharaoh.

The confusing, violent, and cataclysmic events we know today as the Bronze Age Collapse shook the Mediterranean 3200 years ago, which is roughly how long it feels like it's been since we last had a main series historical Total War game.
