Total War: Rome II Angry Review

Release Date: September 3rd, 2013 Platform: Windows Developer: he Creative Assembly Publisher: SEGA Genre: Strategy Players: 1 Offline Player, 2-8 Online Players

Will You Buy It ? Yes No

Angry Joe gives Total War: Rome II some much needed tough love. Roman Style. How does the latest in his favorite strategy series fair? Find out in this comprehensive 42 minute Rant & Review!

Final Verdict ? click to show the score

What you'll like... Still the best Strategy Series offering Deep Addictive Gameplay for countless hours.
Larger map with a good variety of Locations to Battle over.
Countless Factions & Units to field in battles.
Campaign Map Improvements
Cinematic Camera & Army Traditions
Consolidated Province & Building Mechanics allows for more focus on Strategy & Warfare.

What you'll Hate... Graphical & Performance Issues at Release.
Numerous A.I. Faults, Bugs & Glitches.
Barebones Release with no substantial additions.
Family Tree, Faction Politics are both Confusing & Downplayed.
In game cutscenes sparse & very little theme for each faction compared to Shogun 2.
DLC Tactics removing factions from game for separate sale.
Stripped down & Broken Multiplayer.
Battles are too short & Units do not attempt to keep formation by default.
Naval Battles are broken & are better to auto-resolve.

User Score:
1980 votes

5.0

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268 COMMENTS

268 thoughts on “Total War: Rome II Angry Review”

Ryan N812

January 11, 2015 at 8:38 pm
Hope to see a review for Total War Atilla, can’t agree more with Joe’s review of Rome II
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Lothar135

October 13, 2014 at 10:43 am
After a year of fixing the game, CA did manage to put together a good piece. The game is much, much better now than at the release. Actually its one of my favourite games right now. Many buggs are fixed, optimalization was succesful, tech trees and buildings were added and balanced…its good now.

Everyone who did buy it and (like me) was disappointed, try the Emperor Edition, you will be surprised.
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- José Pujol
  
  December 16, 2014 at 11:41 pm
  I want to tell you that you are the best, everything you said about the game was finally fixed, they even used some of your words in the fixes patches “unit brawls”.
  Now Attila is coming, they must fix this…:
  The only thing that was left behind and I think is still one of the most important ones, is in multiplayer. I play this game only in multiplayer with my brother.
  In Napoleon and Shogun 2, the player than was not playing his turn, still could queue units and buildings, that saved allot of time, with a 5 minutes turn you could do everything, was more like 10 minutes…, building and units during other player turn and moving armies and agents during your turn. Now you can’t do nothing more than reading the encyclopedia… and you can’t change the turn time length either, another thing that can be done in Napoleon and Shogun 2 when you resume as host, chose turn time length. In Rome 2, if 5 minutes is not enough time you are fucked because you can’t change that.
  Many thanks,
  José Pujol.
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