You have to have a lot of patience to learn how to play – hell, you have to have a lot of patience to play Total War at all. They sell their games to veterans of the franchise who’d feel a bit insulted at being taught the ins and outs of war – again. There’s only so many times a new player will want to repeat a section before they just get bored, feel stupid, and give up on what can be a totally epic and incredibly rewarding experience.Īt the same time, I understand why CA don’t necessarily want to pander to the newbies. You’re expected to take a lot of initiative and learn by doing – but the real flaw in that is Total War games take a lot of time. You get told how to select your troops and how to move the camera – and that’s pretty much it aside from the occasional prod in the right direction. There’s nothing that really resembles a proper tutorial, and there’s certainly not any hand-holding. I returned to the franchise after a long, long time away from it – the last title I played was Shogun, and not for very long – and I failed the prologue twice before I finally managed to get my shit together and repel the assault on Capua. I suggest starting with The Art of War by Sun Tzu and just working forward from that particular time period if you want to have any hope of going in with all the information you need. In order to really make a good go of it you’re going to need to do some background reading on strategies and the way Total War’s deep, interlocking gameplay elements work together. Complex with no desire to explain itself past the bare minimum, vague and distant. This isn’t Dawn of War or Command & Conquer – this is, in many ways, your father’s game. Newcomers beware, the RTS genre probably takes more time to get the hang of than any other genre – especially on the scale that Total War franchise does.
TOTAL WAR ROME II EMPEROR EDITION REVIEW FOR FREE
Basically, if you already own Rome II, you’re going to get everything that comes with the Emperor Edition for free anyway.
The patches have been significant – it’s not the same game now that it was at launch – and it seems like some underhanded attempt to distance the game from the scores it got upon release. Since the game’s rough launch, a total of fifteen patches have been released (with the new campaign being the latest). None of the paid extra factions etc are included in the re-release. What’s probably worth bearing in mind here from the off is you don’t get anything with the Emperor Edition you can’t already get with the base game itself. I’m a big fan of the Total War series – it hasn’t quite occupied the same place in my heart as Civilisation, but that’s because Total War doesn’t have vikings with tanks. It was messy, a bit stupid, and just generally didn’t live up to the high standard the series has set so far. Like many of you, I played a little bit of Rome II at launch and just fled it like a rat from a sinking ship.
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