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Total War: Rome II - Emperor Edition
Released On: Sep 16, 2014
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
7.4
All Platforms
Emperor Edition really shows how much the title from The Creative Assembly has evolved since it was originally delivered and the way the entire experience has been updated based on the needs of the community and the cool ideas of the development team.
The technical part remains somewhat problematic, but the rest of the game is of outstanding quality. In terms of grand strategy, it's one of the best games and it can deservedly stand next to its ancestors in the same series. Too bad that, as it seems, the publishers did not give the appropriate time frame to the developers. The potential was there, only more time was needed.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 180 User Ratings
7.4
67% Positive
121 Ratings
121 Ratings
13% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
19% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 180 User Ratings
7.4
67% Positive
121 Ratings
121 Ratings
13% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
19% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
Great game - played most of the other Total War games and I have to say: this one has the most potential. Modding makes a huge difference and the fact that they took the time to fix bugs in the Emperor Edition is also great. It's a challenging game that will keep you hooked for months to come. I'm still trying to figure stuff out, play around with all the mechanics, and I've been playing it for almost a month now.
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Rome II was a game I wanted to buy from way before it got released. Even with the small bugs it had at the start, for me it was the best game of the series.
If we're to compare, Rome 1 still has a **** of bugs and more annoying mechanics/gameplay than Rome 2 had at it's launch time.
With the Emperor edition, most bugs are now gone, I haven't had a crash in months and I play while watching movies or while having other games on the background. For most people that desire something different, there are tons of mods out there that can change everything, the fact that you're too stupid to find them or make your own just proves how your poor opinion of the game shouldn't be taken into consideration. Yet I still prefer the vanilla version with only a few enhancements on visuals or extra troops mods.
The fact that the game doesn't work on your configuration is not their fault but your manufacturer's. And the system requirements are not as awful as most will have you believe. The biggest plus to the original version is the fact that they fixed the multiplayer (a long time ago), with all the free content or reduced prices on DLCs, this game is much better than those that ask for 20-50$ for extra content.
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AAA epicness all around.
I loved the original Rome and played it a few times over, yet even on the hardest difficulty it was too easy - flaming arrows, pin enemy from front, hit in the back, rinse repeat and you can route even the largest army. I'm really liking the improved combat system, first of all, the operation above while still works, takes a lot more time I've seen ordinary units stay in battle for 2 minutes while surrounded.
Additional game mechanics, such as restrictions on the number of armies, agents and fleets are awesome - it focuses on quality rather than quantity.
Character advancement mechanics are superb - generals, spies and even entire legions get experience and useful traits.
Simplified province and army management screen, which I originally saw in Shogun2 (and did not like) really works well here. An entire province shares it's recruitment, culture and food buildings.
Performance wise, I have not had a single hiccup or crash, and even in a gate battle involving 5k units at the gate, I'm still getting 15FPS on "ultra" quality using 3 year old computer (i3 with GTX450).
Overall, one of the best games I've ever played, cant stop playing it :)
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After the Emperor update I really like it now. Sure, it's still not as perfect as Shogun 2. But I strongly recommend everyone who was totally disappointed after release and like the Total War games to give it a second try. Balance, politics, KI - it's all much more worth playing now.
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The game improved and is practically bearable now, many glitches of the release are gone and some good decisions to fix things were made. We have to give it a try.
But design and concepts are still weak enough to keep at bay any pretensions of the game to deliver us a brand new experience. It´s nothing like that, at all, because the things that made the game annoying theoretically, for example the UI and the missing of many old concepts of total war franchise, these misleaded concepts are still in the game (the political mechanics shallowness, the restricted diplomatic options etc).
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Sadly, the Empire Edition of Rome II (which is really just Rome II: Gold and therefore not actually a new game) is just as shallow as the game was on release.
In it's defence, the game is no longer as buggy as it once was and the addition of seasons was nice, but in general, the game still lacks character and is crippled by some horrible design decisions.
In addition, things like siege AI and politics whilst now actually working still leave a lot to be desired. For example, the siege AI will buckle if you apply even a modicum of pressure to it since it can only operate competently under preset circumstances.
Just to provide a list of currently missing features and other problems:
- No trading settlements.
- No diplomatic threatening.
- No wall buildings.
- No bribing enemy armies.
- No improvements to client states/satrapies.
- Ineffective hoplite phalanx animation.
- No dedicated axe/club animations.
- Torches are still in the game.
- No family tree.
- Disgustingly overpowered and ambiguous agents.
- Lots of latency issues in multiplayer (which is still bare bones)
- Skill trees still awkward to find and confusing to understand.
- Horrible campaign and battle UI (same as on release)
- Meaningless generals.
- Nonsensical AI diplomatic decisions.
- AI general's still regularly suicide themselves.
- No in depth Roman auxiliary system (in my opinion but there are mods for this).
- Still waiting on more mod/map tools.
There is more I could add to this list, but I think that's enough for now. The point is, this isn't a Total War of old, it really still lacks soul and "immersion". The feature strip and bad design decisions have condemned this game to a status of mediocrity in my view. This is not to mention the horrible release of the game of course.
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Unbelievable. After deleting Rome 2 off my computer for the worthless s*** that it was, I decided to reinstall after reading such positive reviews for "Emperor Edition" Lo and behold this is still an un-optimised pos. The game is so picky that if you don't have the perfect computer that matches the games specs exactly it won't goddamn work. It still lags, still feels soulless and just isn't an engaging total war game. Shogun 2 is still better in every aspect. Please CA, don't use this sh***y engine again.
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Summary
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Sep 16, 2014
Developer:
- Creative Assembly
Publisher: Sega
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