Total War: Rome 2 debut trailer cuts in
Having announced the long-awaited sequel Total War: Rome II yesterday, publisher Sega today shared the live-action first trailer for The Creative Assembly's Roman strategy-o-rama.
Having announced the long-awaited sequel Total War: Rome II yesterday, publisher Sega today shared the first trailer for The Creative Assembly's Roman strategy-o-rama. The live-action affair shows the sort of back-stabbing and throat-slitting political manoeuvres we should expect when we return to the Imperium Romanum on PC in 2013.
Of course, as snazzy as live-action trailers are, they tell us very little about the actual game. How lucky, then, that we've seen the game in action and you can read all about it in our preview.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Total War: Rome 2 debut trailer cuts in.
Having announced the long-awaited sequel Total War: Rome II yesterday, publisher Sega today shared the live-action first trailer for The Creative Assembly's Roman strategy-o-rama.-
I think the trailer says deceptively a lot more than we think.
Concubine assassins
Power over the senate
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Also: Execute / Ransom officers (featured since Medieval 2 but not in the original Rome)
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If i had to guess, Rome 2 will certainly be dumbed down from Rome 1 but on the same caliber as Shogun 2 which was the right amount of streamlining.
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Yeah I actually enjoyed Shoguns changes for the most part. My only real beef with the game actually had to do with the land layout and road networks such that you really only needed a couple armies, one for each direction along the island. Granted some of that is just how Japan is shaped but I would have preferred more middle provinces/roads and less massive mountains creating easy to defend chokepoints. I felt like in both Medieval2 and Rome I had to defend in more places as my empire expanded, the area of the front grew exponentially. That didn't really happen to me in Shogun2, was almost too easy to defend.
Another thing I didn't like was that it seemed like I had less battles. The ones I had were always massive though. Just didn't seem like there was a place for armies that weren't a full stack. Though I suppose that was part of the way Japan's battles were during this period? -
Honestly in the preview it sounded like they may have been given a much bigger budget for this one.
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I'm not sure I would even call it dumbed down.
RTW had some bad mechanics and scripted AI (Egypt always attacks you as Parthia on Expert, AI armies always pursue you in their territory, etc) that made the game hard to play straight/easy to exploit.
Especially after FotS, S2 is a more refined & deeper game than Rome. S2 isn't perfect, but beating RTW was really easy where S2 is really hard. -
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How do you dumb down Total War?
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Finally, at last!
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Eww, gross! She stuck the bloody hairpin back in her hair? Yuck!
I wish the city weren't depicted as being all spotless white marble. I like the look of the dog, though.-
Irish Wolfhounds are pretty cool dogs.
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Been waiting a long time for this. I bought Shogun 2 because I love these guys but Rome is my true passion. I cant wait!!!!
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That's it, I'm done. From now on, any game that uses live action trailers, I am just going to assume it's garbage and not buy it.
These types of trailers used to be the norm, and I was OH SO HAPPY when games got good enough to use actual gameplay for their trailers. We're regressing.
I'm done. Obviously my $50 means nothing to them, but it makes me feel good to enforce this principle. SO THERE!-
Cool post.
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I really enjoyed that trailer. Usually FMV trailers are terrible but that was well done.
Looking forward to seeing gameplay footage release.
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