The Great Battles of Alexander

aka: Alexander, Alexander der Große: Die großen Schlachten der Antike, Les Grandes Batailles d'Alexandre, Yalikeshada Dadi

Moby ID: 7218

Released

1997 on Windows

Credits

76 people

Publishers

Interactive Magic, Inc.

Developers

Erudite Software

Moby Score

7.1

#12,434 of 24.5K

Critics

71% (17)

Players

(5)

Review Ranking

#4,696 on Windows

Collected By

10 players

Genre: Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Top-down
Pacing: Turn-based
Setting: Classical antiquity
Historical events

ELSPA Rating: 3+

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: CD-ROM
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard, Mouse
Multiplayer Options: Hot Seat, Internet, LAN, Modem
Number of Offline Players: 1-2 Players

Included in

The Great Battles: Collector's Edition (1998)

Description official descriptions

This is a wargame which is part of the Great battles series series and deals with the exploits of some of the greatest ancient military generals. Here the game focuses on Alexander the Great, the great Macedonian leader. This strategy game is inspired by the award winning board game made by GMT Games and recreates ten great battles fought by Alexander and its armies with high detailed graphics, extreme attention to classic wargame rules (weapons, tactics, military units, morale, initiative, momentum, etc etc), realistic AI behaviour and so on. It supports single player game (single battles or campaign mode) as well as multiplayer option.

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Executive Producer	Joe Rutledge Ray Rutledge
Project Manager	S. Craig Taylor
Multimedia Producer	Robert Stevenson Christopher Roby
Quality Assurance Manager	David Green
Playtest Coordinator	Joe Allen
Internal Playtesters	Shane Brewer Adrian Earle Carlin Gartrell Joe Myers Marc Racine Jason Sircy Adam Turner
External Playtesters	Gary Anderson Chris Bernitz Martin Brown Nicholas Caldwell Chris Edwards Neil Fradkin Fred Glazier John Good David C. Holst Biju Mathai Craig Mayberry
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Critics

Average score: 71% (based on 17 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 5 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Trivia

Publisher change

Great Battles of Alexander was listed in SSI's catalog for the second half of 1995. The final game was released in 1997 by Interactive Magic.

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MobyGames ID: 7218

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Game added by Sauron.

Additional contributors: Terok Nor, Unicorn Lynx, formercontrib, Duduzets, Indus.

Game added September 26, 2002. Last modified March 31, 2024.