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1. #TOTAL WAR ROME 2 EMPEROR EDITION REVIEW PATCH#
2. #TOTAL WAR ROME 2 EMPEROR EDITION REVIEW SERIES#
3. #TOTAL WAR ROME 2 EMPEROR EDITION REVIEW FREE#

This period of history is extremely important for the path of Roman history, and, some historians argue, the world.

Taking place in 39 BC you can choose to play as one of 10 factions during the period of time known as the “Final War of the Roman Republic”.īetter known as the war between Mark Antony and Octavian (Later Augustus). The Imperator Augustus campaign if you’re a history buff you may have already guessed the subject of this campaign. There’s countless other fixes but the siege fix was the most important one that I noticed.įinally there’s the big addition. As hilarious as it was to see a Egyptian army of 2000 men re-enact Monty Python and the Holy Grail I’m still very glad they fixed that issue, it wasn’t exactly a challenge otherwise. If the enemy has siege towers, they’ll use siege towers, if they have battering rams, they’ll use battering rams and so on. Now the AI will approach every battle with some small semblance of logic. There’s not much to say about what Creative Assembly fixed “Under the hood” with their technical patches other than they stopped the AI’s annoying tendency to throw all of their forces at a main gate to burn it down even if they have siege equipment. Whether that’s a good or a bad thing is up to the beholder, though I choose to look at it as hilarious when 5 elephants manage to kill over 400 heavily armed and armored men.

#TOTAL WAR ROME 2 EMPEROR EDITION REVIEW PATCH#

However with the latest patch they’re back to their tank-like legacy. Creative Assembly sort of fixed that in this game by making elephants more realistic at launch. This made elephants the most feared enemy back in the day if not at all historically accurate. For the unaware war Elephants in the original Rome: Total War game were more akin to actual tanks than real elephants, capable of absorbing arrows, ballista bolts, swords, whatever. The elephants, however, are a different matter with a bit of a history. The increase of Roman Legion’s is more or less a personal gripe, can’t field the large armies I personally love if I can’t afford them. The most notable things are the upgrading of elephants and making Roman Legions more expensive. Abilities were removed, some things made weaker, some things made stronger. Creative Assembly took to task the current balance of units. The first and hardest thing to cover is the balancing.

While this doesn’t make the Emperor edition a brand new game it does make it new enough to discuss, especially with the new campaign attached.

#TOTAL WAR ROME 2 EMPEROR EDITION REVIEW FREE#

The Emperor Edition was a free “Upgrade” (Read: Patch) that fixed a lot of the remaining issues, balanced a bunch of gameplay things and added an entirely new campaign.

This came in the shape of the “Emperor Edition.” You see, Creative Assembly, the developers of Rome 2, decided to one up their constant patching and fixing that they’ve been doing for over a year and release the granddaddy of all patches. It was also considered the lesser of the two games to take on the Roman time period, at least until now.

#TOTAL WAR ROME 2 EMPEROR EDITION REVIEW SERIES#

It is the second game in the Total War series to tackle this period of time. As you have have guessed from the title this Total War title revolves around the rise and apex of the Roman Empire. However Total War mixes up the turn based formula by having you take direct, real-time control of your armies when they clash with enemy armies this makes you have to balance both being the leader of an Empire as well as it’s chief strategic mind and general. You take control of one of many historical powerhouses and both run the entirety of the Empire when it comes to it’s economy, politics and diplomacy in a turn-based setting like a period locked Civlization game. However since Creative Assembly released the game they have turned Rome 2 from a broken mess into a game worth holding the Total War title.įor the uninitiated the Total War series is a turn based and real time strategy game that centers around controlling and expanding a realworld historical empire. I loved the game from when I picked it up as a result, but it still had many, many issues. However I was lucky enough to pick up the game several months after release more or less when they fixed a lot of game breaking bugs. Bad game design decisions mixed with game breaking bugs (Ships were capable of floating into the land, yeah it was that bad) made the game virtually unplayable. Upon release the 8th game in the Total War franchise was broken beyond belief.