Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Fuck yes! Wooooooh! The SPQR shall rise again! Wahoooo! Imma' keep hollerin' like this on my way out the door. Thanks, TC!
Sadly I have failed to get into RTS games, but I know that Total War Rome is supposed to be the greatest Total War game ever so, this is pretty fucking sweet news.
@Kaiserreich: Makes sense; it has been practically three Total War games since Medieval 2 so I can't see them continuing to try to work on a Medieval 2 EB at this point of time.
@AhmadMetallic: Total War is mostly turn based. You can forgo entirely the RTS parts of the game if that's not your thing.
Yeah the campaign aspects are more like those Grand Campaign games such as Crusader Kings II and you can autoresolve battles if you don't like RTS in a tactical level. It can get really fun, though, I mean sieges were always awesome when you had the right siege engines! And you can command people riding elephants with archers on them!
@EquitasInvictus: Yeah, I'll admit to using auto resolve for my first few (attempted) playthroughs, simply to get used to the other elements of the game. It can all be quite overwhelming, but even the RTS is different from most other RTS in that resource management is left out. It's entirely tactical, which makes the combat really dynamic. Other RTS seem kinda shallow in comparison once you get into it...
its said to be mod friendly. includes europe, africa & asia, so its much bigger in scale. u can attack cities with ships, & the campaing map has been made better. theres also alot less micro managing.
@SpartanHoplite: Asia as in the complete Silk Road? That'd be pretty awesome.
Man, as I've mentioned earlier, my favorite tactic is to have a small number of Spartan Hoplite units positioned at one end of a bridge to get attacked by a numerically superior force to have the larger force get massacred trying to charge the bridge by how unbreakable the Spartan phalanx ends up being. They're so (perhaps rightfully) overpowered!
"We want to wind it back out again to cover a much, much larger geographical area and a whole series of cultures this time." The desire is to create a game that really does span those three continents - not just geographically, but by reining in (so that you can reign over) all the diversity, contradictions and complications that are found in the cultures and peoples of Europe, Asia and Africa." from Eurogamer preview.
sounds really cool with the mixing of naval & land battles into one huge conflict. i was a huge Julii 'form TESTUDO!' fan, but then i found Spartans & their Phalanx formation, and i too love going through battles with only few Spartan units. u actually can conquer huge cities with few Spartans if u succeed getting into narrow street & form Phalanx there on both directions.
itll be intresting to see how ROME tacticts work in ROME 2.
About time they annouce this!!!! Gonna try to make as much money as possible to get this game!!!
EDIT: If you notice at the end of the trailer, there's actually a piano version of the menu theme from Rome 1. FUCK YEAH!!! LOVED THE ORIGINAL ROME SOUNDTRACK!
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