It's taken a long time for TV adaptations of videogames to get, you know, actually good. Now we've got The Last of Us, Arcane and Fallout all showing off. Back in 2005, though, we just had Time Commanders.
BBC's Time Commanders was an exciting prospect for any strategy nerd who could drag themselves away from their wars to watch people fighting them on TV. It used the Rome: Total War engine—back before Creative Assembly flipped the game titles—to create massive battles for contestants to conduct, not from their PCs, but by giving orders and acting like generals.
