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PC Gameplay announces Total War: Rome II from it's home page as "special summer content" and declared a huge preview in the nearest future. Glad to share this announcement with you guys.

excellent

I wish they would come up with something new but with that said, Rome was probably my favorite of the whole bunch - especially modded.  I've lost faith in them to produce a good game after the frustrating Medieval 2 and craptastic Empire but Shogun restored my faith a little bit. Still likely wait till the bargain bin.

Many people speculated the next one to be just that.  I'm glad.

Hopefully they can keep some of the same gameplay quality from S2TW, and maybe even improve on it (Slowwww down the movement speeds dummies! ).

Yeah, I don't think the announcement is going to come as a surprise to anyone!  Anytime someone (including CA themselves) has conducted a poll on what people want the next Total War title to be, the winner has consistently been Rome 2 -- and usually by an overwhelming margin. 

Originally Posted By Joram (27 JUN 2012 8:00am)

I wish they would come up with something new but with that said, Rome was probably my favorite of the whole bunch - especially modded.  I've lost faith in them to produce a good game after the frustrating Medieval 2 and craptastic Empire but Shogun restored my faith a little bit. Still likely wait till the bargain bin.

I lost faith in CA after Rome; it remains my least favorite game in the series.  I then lost it even more (or yet again, depending on how you want to look at it) with Empire. 

I strongly suspect I would really enjoy Shogun 2, but my experience with ETW has made me leary of the Steam requirement.  (Yeah, I know I gotta get over it sometime...) 

Just thinking about that AI in RTW2 that S2TW has has me giddy. If they can pull that off RTW2 will be the best game ever. There's nothing more I enjoy than getting thrashed by the AI in S2TW. I just don't like that era or war period mainly because everybody has nearly the same gear and weapons. I certainly can't complain about the AI or how they made it to go after the human player as I've said time and time again that's what computer games of strategy and war should do. I hope it doesn't take too long to create.

I haven't played RTW a lot. I have played a few mods from RTW thanks to that great interview with Master of None discussing their Fourth Age Mod: Dominon of Men mod for RTW. I've played a bit of Europa Barbaroum, Norman Invasion, Viking Invasion II (awesome mod!) and Arthurian Total War.  I still haven't gotten Shogun 2, but that's because *(sigh) I don't have a muscular gpu for my system yet. (still looking)

But I will be watching to see how this one comes out. This is great we have the Alea Jacta Est from AGEOD, Hegemony: Rome from Longbow and now this.

 ROMA INVICTA!

I can't wait for the cycle to begin again....  Medieval III anyone? :s

Seriously, a little bit of the "Creative" in Creative Assembly would do the company well at this point.  There are so many other eras they could build games for....

I should make it clear that the announcement is not an official one but rather a leak.

The official announcement is due on the 7th. It could still be victoria total war which a lot of people are hoping for.

There will never be a VictoriaTotalwar.This is Rome2.

This makes me so happy!

The only Rome 2 for me will be Europa Barbarorum 2... when it finally arrives (they're still updating their twitter regularly btw).

Wonder if the idiots from CA will ever get around to fixing Shogun 2 so that owners of AMD 7800 and 7900 series cards can actually play the game?  You know, the flagship cards of the corporation whose splashscreen flashes up when you start Shogun 2?  The ones that the game is supposed to be optimized for?

If there ain't no flaming pig units, I ain't buying.

I feel they are missing out on an opportunity by not naming it "Total War: Rome 2 Electric Boogaloo."

Originally Posted By ArizonaTank (27 JUN 2012 3:08pm)

 

 

Seriously, a little bit of the "Creative" in Creative Assembly would do the company well at this point.  There are so many other eras they could build games for....

 

 

I agree they could start mixing it up, even though I'm more than happy that they're doing this one. 

The problem there is that they still haven't figured out how to get lines of musketmen to stand and fire and win by such attrition.  NTW got a bit better but the AI still stinks.  CA seems to have more problems with the later timeline settings that involve firearms.

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It is official.

AVE CAESAR!

Originally Posted By Reich36 (2 JUL 2012 12:00pm)

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It is official.

 

 

AVE CAESAR!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKglskMfyWA&feature=player_detailpage#t=8s

woo hoo

I just hope it's out before Dec 22nd. 2012

I'm so excited, I just can't hide it, I'm about to lose control and I think I like it. (da dat dat daaaah duh)

I'm so excited, an I just can't hide it, and I know I know I know, I want you.

First preview is up. Mother of God!!!!

Amphibious assaults

Legions with their own traits

Three or more capture points for cities

60 units to control per army!!!!

Not out until next year some time. boooooo

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/02/total-war-rome-2-preview/

http://www.pcgamesn.com/totalwar/total-war-rome-2-preview-every-question-answered

I desperately hope that CA doesn't drop the ball on this one. It could really be an epic masterpiece.

Awesome pics. This is what i thought the whole time. That they made S2 the practice run and that they would make R2 next.

The question is, can they make it interesting for TW vets. I only have 154 hours in S2 and that is propably less than a quarter of the second least played....

Nice eye candy but will the AI be any good?

If the AI is like SG2 then it will  be much much better than the origional. If it gangs up on the human player it will be great like SG2. Allies becoming enemies things like that will make it a fun and challenging AI.