Alexander continues PC conquest

Rome: Total War expansion Alexander set to get stand-alone PC release. Grapes and robed maidens not included

He came, he conquered, he's coming again - following victory as a digital download-only release, Sega is hailing the success of Rome: Total War's second expansion Alexander with its own boxed, stand-alone CD-ROM release on 1 September.

The acclaimed RTS add-on timewarps itself back to the time of the great war general, packing in a brand new campaign map and six bloody battles that cover Alexander's unification of Greece and his victories against Greek, Persian and Indian forces.

Each mission will unfold sequentially, and will be positively dribbling in historical accuracy. If that's enough for you, you also get the talented voice acting of Brian 'Booming Voice' Blessed, plus a brand new multiplayer tournament mode for online and LAN slaying.

Alexander was well received upon its digital release, and Sega's decision to give it a proper CD-ROM baptism is a result of a "huge number of Total War fans itching to play it but without the means to successfully download it."

So there you go. We have to say, we learnt more about Ancient Rome writing this story than we did in three years of GCSE history study! On second thoughts, though, that's because we did WWI....