Huge potential. Dumbed down for console port and broken beyond belief. Huge disappointment

User Rating: 3 | Total War: Rome II PC
By tobaman | Review Date:
Each turn is a year, so most generals die within 30 turns, no point in investing in generals. Each army needs a general, you cant have smaller forces led by captains and you're limited on how many armies you can have depending on provinces owned. This diminishes any barbarian faction as guerilla warfare with small bands of units is no longer possible, you have to send an army. Naval combat is broken beyond belief, upgraded fleet destroyed by soldiers on the 'auto boats' by continual ramming. Map mode too much like CIV, the upgrades are terrible and its difficult to decipher where each building upgrade will go and what you get for your investments.
Capture points are a terrible idea, I had one skirmish where I outnumbered the enemy 3 to 1. I lost each time because the enemy took the point and held it for 50 seconds before i could cover half the ground.
Lots of glitches, graphical two headed soldier glitch for instance. Happiness can be a colossal nuisance especially for the barbarian factions. Can't effectively counteract squalor so expanding means constant revolts.
The speeches are s**t, why is there no cutscene where the general gives a motivational speech?
Building tree is awful.
Spies are next to useless, most effects IF they succeed will only last a turn but most of the time a 95% chance of success results in failure.
In the battles even on full speed units dont seem to cover much ground at all.
UI is clunky and takes over half the screen.
Too many factions, even on a top end gaming PC you have to wait up to 2 minutes upon ending turn.

I could go on all day nit picking, I was expecting a Total War game worthy of its predecessor ESPECIALLY seeing as they had a budget 40% larger than usual. What did they spend the money on? I just see a game with huge potential and half arsed features. I just hope the Total Realism crew can fix the blunder of trying to port such an epic game to a console, dumbing it down for the PC gamers and long term fans. I am disappoint.

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