Total War: Pharaoh bends history to give us an up-close view of ancient Egypt’s downfall

When the Egyptian empire fell, no civilisation escaped unscathed. The latest in Creative Assembly’s series of grand strategy games tries to make sense of a confusing periodIn recent years, Creative Assembly has pushed its grand strategy games – in which you raise armies and direct them over a world map that looks a little like the board game Risk – in more fantastical directions, giving you control of Greek and Trojan heroes in Total War: Troy, Chinese folk legends in a retelli