One of the few golden rules of videogames is that it's always better to have Brian Blessed doing a voice-over than not. Between each you get an extended piece of narrative, with Brian Blessed on voice-overs. The six of Alexander's great victories (oh - all right, five of Alexander's and one of his old man Phillip when Alexander was just there) are played in sequence, requiring you to beat each one before progressing to the next. In fact, it's a little more like a traditional RTS-campaign. While it's arguable that, like its mother game, the map-based campaign-mode is the true heart of the game, the historical matches are of more import than we've seen typically. That it's about our favourite always-entertaining top-ancient greek bisexual conqueror's another bonus.ДЄlexander presents a trident of gaming additions - the extended campaign mode, historical battles and the extended multiplayer. Creative Assembly's Alexander is the most notable example of a strategy developer trying this, and while not up to Episode 1, it's in a position to snort at horsey-armour.

There's a lot of that this year, isn't there? While most of the attention has circled around Valve (positively, for its excellent Episode 1) and Bethesda (less positively, for its less excellent give-horsey-some-armour), it's not just the first-person developers who are getting involved.

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