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sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-04 20:36:33
July 02 2012 14:41 GMT
#1
Yes that's right, life has finally become worth living again:

http://www.videogamer.com/pc/rome_ii_total_war/news/rome_ii_total_war_everything_we_know_detailed.html

Too many awesome little ideas to imagine. I feel that once Sega took over, ie Medieval II, Empire, Shogun II, the franchise changed, and stumbled on a few blocks. However, Shogun II was the smoothest of those games, and I fully trust that Rome II is coming out at the right time. I think this could be real big and real awesome. Shogun's obvious weakness in terms of format is the restriction on diversity of factions. As all Total War fans will know, Rome blows this problem out of the water. Let slip the dogs of war boys!



Credit to blahz0r for the video find


The details in full:

-Shogun 2 was set in narrow geographical areas, with limited sets of units - a comparatively small scale to what's being intended with Rome II. It was designed with a focus on game systems, such as engine polishing and improvements to unit pathing.

- With that in place, Rome II is going big - it's bigger than Rome 1 in geographical scale.

-The game's key design vision is in taking players from a macro to micro scale, such as jumping from a campaign map to a single unit.

- Despite that focus, Rome II is still attempting to make its macro scale bigger - we're guessing the senate will play a large part of that, but Creative Assembly won't say just yet.

- As you rise through the ranks, your success will attract less-than-favourable responses from some of your friends. You will almost definitely get betrayed. There's "more human-level drama on the campaign map" in Rome II.

- The bigger campaign map has "hundreds" of regions to move your units around, but the game buckets them into provinces to make management easier. The idea is to have you thinking about armies and legions rather than fiddling around with individual units.
Ultimately, the game will allow you to decide whether to favour the republic or become Rome's dictator.

- The game's cameras have been redesigned. You can now lock the camera to single units. In this mode it functions like a sort of documentary cam, shaking while the unit walks – it's "a soldier's eye view" according to Creative Assembly.

- The demonstration takes place with a scenario set during the Third Punic War, which took place during 149BC to 146BC. The scenario here is the Siege of Carthage.
Rome II: Total War features a new graphics engine, which features particle and deferred lighting.

- The game can now combine naval and land battles into the same conflict, including naval invasions: in this demo a Roman ship lands on the coast of Carthage.

- Naval units now have more than one ship per unit.

- Though expected, we see catapults and ballistae being put to good use.

- The demo has a big focus on Roman siege towers, and the snap-to unit camera takes the view of the game inside the siege tower itself.

- Conflicts take place over much bigger environments - much of Carthage has been recreated in the demo. To accommodate this extra scale, the game now features a top-down tactical map.

- There are multiple ways to capture cities. Walls can be reduced to rubble after they've sustained enough damage, for instance. It's designed to create cat-and-mouse gameplay: "You're not just sitting in the plaza once the walls are breached trying to defend that one area"

- There's a real oomph when units engage, with walls of shields colliding.

- The new graphics engine can show some impressive fidelity for a game of this scale. We can clearly see that Carthage's walls have graffiti.

- Buildings crumble in the background as Carthage deploys its war elephants and the demo ends.

- The unit camera has been designed so the game feels like it's "almost Saving Private Ryan at the beaches".

- Each unit has its own facial animations, and leaders bark out a stream of orders throughout. each confrontation.

- Units react to things, such as their colleagues being slaughtered - the idea is that these aren't idenikit clone armies anymore.
Ramong
Profile Joined March 2011
Denmark1706 Posts
July 02 2012 14:45 GMT
#2
Yeah, I saw this on Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/02/total-war-rome-2-preview/

I am looking forward to Rome 2, like the first one a lot.

But I am also a little afraid that the AI will be as shit as always and the game will be as buggy on release as always :p

"Yeah buddy"
MentalGNT
Profile Joined January 2011
Denmark1264 Posts
July 02 2012 14:50 GMT
#3
There are two threads about this now ^_^

Rome: Total War is arguably the best game I have ever played. I cannot wait for this.
What a player
Candadar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
2049 Posts
July 02 2012 14:51 GMT
#4
On July 02 2012 23:50 MentalGNT wrote:
There are two threads about this now ^_^

Rome: Total War is arguably the best game I have ever played. I cannot wait for this.


It's cause we're all so hyped for the game :D

This and CoH2 and Carrier Command in the same year?

2013 is the year of the RTS fan :D
DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-02 15:41:37
July 02 2012 14:57 GMT
#5
LOVED the first ROME. The most recent TWs were good but always had that "but" with them in my opinion.

Empire: Awesome but Napoleonic warfare didn't really make for a good game (not to mention it was a buggy mess forever)

Shogun: Awesome but had the most uninteresting subject matter / era i could imagine. Limited in scope too.

I think Rome is without a doubt the best possible world to have a Total War game in. Hopefully there's no "but" with this one Looks absolutely amazing!
Darpa
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada4413 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-02 15:01:35
July 02 2012 15:00 GMT
#6
Man I cant wait, outside of startcraft, the Total war series has been my favorite game series. I loved Rome, and Medieval Total war 2 (also the crusades expansion was amazing). I thought Shogun 2 was a bit of a disappointment just because it was very similar to empire (just different units/landscape) and also partly because I played the original shogun to death, so I was kinda sick of the timeframe.

I will definitely be buying this on day 1
"losers always whine about their best, Winners go home and fuck the prom queen"
Sayle
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom3685 Posts
July 02 2012 15:06 GMT
#7
The bits about being able to zoom in to single-unit level make me nervous. It makes it sounds like the battles will require a lot less control and decision making for that to be possible. Cinematic camera is nice and all but I hope it doesn't end up like Sins of a Solar Empire where the battles don't really require any tactics/micro.

Having said that, still super pumped for this. Rome was my first game in the TW series and I loved it. Was a bit disappointed by Shogun 2's limited scope, but this should be awesome.
Greem
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
730 Posts
July 02 2012 15:16 GMT
#8
WoW nice news, i liked Rome , and TW: Medieval, i think there is much more potential then in Shogun 2, as rightly pointed. Will play this for sure. War Elephants! But i must forget i even read this , since as i see its coming in 2013, dont wanna get pumped too much
youtube.com/N0rthernL1ght
MushroomCult
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden35 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-02 15:45:48
July 02 2012 15:30 GMT
#9
Best news ever! :O

and fix the multiplayer!! :o
Dum spiro, spero
liam33
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada192 Posts
July 02 2012 15:35 GMT
#10
great news rome was the best
HeeroFX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2704 Posts
July 02 2012 15:42 GMT
#11
Looks like it will be fun
andrewlt
Profile Joined August 2009
United States7702 Posts
July 02 2012 15:46 GMT
#12
Hopefully, they make this game centered around melee infantry like the period was historically. Rome 1 was a great game but failed in this regard.

I love what CA did with Shogun 2. They grew too ambitious from Rome on and tacked on too many features that they couldn't get a handle on. Shogun 2 focused on the most important key features of the franchise. Now that they have a good handle on that, it's time to be ambitious with Rome 2 again. I hope they don't bite more than they can chew, though.
Ramong
Profile Joined March 2011
Denmark1706 Posts
July 02 2012 17:02 GMT
#13
a interview with the producers:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/02/total-war-rome-2-interview/
"Yeah buddy"
GoSuChicken
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany1726 Posts
July 02 2012 17:03 GMT
#14
fuuuuck yeaaaaah
Kamate
Profile Joined May 2010
Romania580 Posts
July 02 2012 17:19 GMT
#15
Ohhhhhh, my god, this will be so awesome !!
I was just playing a bit of Shogun 2 , took a break to enter TL , and what do I see? awesooooome news !!!
I so loved Rome , the best in all installments of Total war , imo.;
countless hours I have played
Need to start saving money for new comp , wanna see best of it
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
July 02 2012 17:24 GMT
#16
Just make/keep it moddable.
Taku
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada2036 Posts
July 02 2012 17:40 GMT
#17
Time to whore phalax again~
When SC2 came for BW, I cried. Now LoL/Dota2 comes for SC2, and I laugh. \o/
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9560 Posts
July 02 2012 17:59 GMT
#18
Awesome!! Rome:TW was a great game, hope they do the title justice and even improve on it (the AI for the most part) and keep it modable so twcenter folks will be able to provide us upgrades! \o/
For the curse of life is the curse of want. PC = https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/4JknvV
FeUerFlieGe
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1193 Posts
July 02 2012 18:07 GMT
#19
A balanced Rome Total War without OP Rome and OP Egypt... makes me smile =)
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. - Shakespeare
sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
July 02 2012 18:48 GMT
#20
Oops there was another thread, both made at almost exactly the same time xD.

I just remember the INSANE revolution that happened to the TW franchise when it went from Medieval to Rome. It was just pure insanity. From playing the intro battle I just couldn't believe how much better and cooler it was. It was like the transition from GTA 2 to GTA 3. I am optimistic that if they bring in the effort put into Shogun 2, the imagination put into Empire AND the just perfect temporal era for a war and strategy. All the awesome news about the unit animations and individual unit elements reacting to each others' deaths is the most exciting part for me!!!!

How fucking cool will it be to see some poor triarius rear back in horror as his comrade, with whom he has fought for you for several seasons, through hot and cold, is impaled by the mighty tusk of a carthaginian war elephant! And then turn around to run but be bolstered by the sight of a hard-as-fuck boss legionnaire steeling his elite URBAN COHORT (said in epic manly voice) men for a charge to run and cut the hamstrings of the elephant! Can't fucking wait!!!
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