{"id":4933,"date":"2014-07-08T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/?page_id=4933"},"modified":"2017-08-17T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T11:46:35","slug":"total-war-rome-ii-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/review\/total-war-rome-ii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Total War: Rome II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game Name:Total War: Rome II<\/p>\n

Platforms: PC<\/p>\n

Publisher: Sega<\/p>\n

Developer: Creative Assembly<\/p>\n

Genres: Real-time strategy,\u00a0Turn-based strategy<\/p>\n

UK Release:\u00a0

At the end of the day the Total War faithful will love it, but it may not be enough to entice the Civilization faithful to defect.<\/h2>\n

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You know, I really like strategy games. I wish I was better at them, but I genuinely really enjoy them. I\u2019ve already had the pleasure of reviewing the enjoyable\u00a0Company of Heroes 2<\/em>\u00a0this year and I\u2019ve just finished playing\u00a0Total War: Rome II<\/em>\u00a0for this review. The\u00a0Total War<\/em>\u00a0series is a long-standing favourite in the real-time strategy genre, maybe not quite up there with the behemoth that is\u00a0Starcraft 2<\/em>, but it\u2019s fairly unique take on the strategy genre, where it emphasises huge battles with massive forces is enjoyable by many, despite its difficulty.<\/p>\n

Total War:\u00a0<\/em>Rome II<\/em>\u00a0is the titular sequel to the series\u2019 third entry, released back in 2004 and with it developer The Creative Assembly aims to bring a collection of new improvements and additions to the\u00a0Total War<\/em>\u00a0formula, while going back to one of the series\u2019 most memorable settings and indeed one of history\u2019s most memorable and plentiful war eras.<\/p>\n

By far the most notable difference in\u00a0Total War:\u00a0<\/em>Rome\u00a0II\u00a0<\/em>over previous series entries is its increased expansion outside of the battlefield itself, often reminding me of\u00a0Civilization<\/em>. The addition of new difficulty conditions, provincial groupings and the vast amount of civilisations on the campaign over-map. While this brings along many improvements to the game, it also adds some confusion in terms of the game\u2019s identity. We\u2019ll get to that in a bit.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the basics though:\u00a0Total War: Rome\u00a0II<\/em>\u00a0is beautiful. From the moment you begin the game\u2019s more story-based and cinematic prologue and make your presence known on the battlefield, the visual fidelity and sheer scale is immediately noticeable; environments look amazing in the Italian sun, the sea swishes and glistens, and no matter how much you zoom in you\u2019ll see just how much work went into each soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Game Name:Total War: Rome II Platforms: PC Publisher: Sega Developer: Creative Assembly Genres: Real-time strategy,\u00a0Turn-based strategy UK Release:\u00a0September 3, 2013 At the end of the day the Total War faithful will love it, but...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4944,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4933\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onehitpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}