Attila solved problems that have bedeviled Creative Assembly's games for years. Age of Charlemagne ends the saga, and it's not quite as daring as the previous campaigns, but it's not supposed to be.

Attila remained a threat to both the Western and the Eastern Empires, nonetheless. His armies reached as far south as Constantinople in 443; between 450 and 453 he invaded France and Italy.

Attila was king of the Huns, a non-Christian people based on the Great Hungarian Plain in the fifth century A.D. At its height, the Hunnic Empire stretched across Central Europe.

For years, the unstoppable Attila sacked city after city until a Germanic-Roman alliance halted the Huns in A.D. 451. The victory underlined a hard truth for the tottering empire: The barbarian ...

Attila is the latest blood-soaked release in the long-lived franchise of Total War. Set on the brink of Rome’s collapse, players are turned loose during one of the most brutal time periods in ...

Attila is more of the same and a little bit extra, then, not as convincingly realized as the best Total Wars, but strong enough to keep you clicking until the inevitable patches and expansions ...

Total War: Attila is, as I wrote in my preview, absolutely brutal. The game takes any chance it gets to juxtapose the titular Hun with Christian imagery of the apocalypse.

“Attila” was the ninth of Verdi’s 28 operas, an early work, coming right before “Macbeth.” Most opera buffs, if they know “Attila” at all, would rank it pretty far down the list.