Sega announces Total War: Rome II !

Sega and the Creative Assembly have just announced that a new Total War game is in the making, along with a live action trailer.

Take a look at IGN's article for more details.

So, what are your thoughts?

I'm really excited about this, I've always wanted a sequel to the original Rome, and I think this is great news. I can't wait.

I'll play ir, obviously, since Total War games are my favorite, but I would have preferred another Medieval.

I'll play ir, obviously, since Total War games are my favorite, but I would have preferred another Medieval.

airshocker

cool trailer

we got jango and boba this thread is starting off great :D

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I'll play ir, obviously, since Total War games are my favorite, but I would have preferred another Medieval.

ionusX

No, I think they are just trying to update their games to their new engine. Rome looks like crap now. But Empire still looks great, is modern, and you can play it fine. Their next game might be something new or Medieval III.

Rome was the best Total War, easily. Glad to see CA giving this epic game a sequel. Medieval, Shogun, Empire, and Napoleon were good, but none of them compare to how epic Rome was.

Late 2013? That's right in line with when I bought the original Rome nine years ago...

The question is how much the Carthage DLC will cost.

Hold on to yer butts guys! Last time CA attempted a mammoth-sized game like this they shat out Empire, which was a solid 3/10 and needs 10 GB of mods to be any good.

Hold on to yer butts guys! Last time CA attempted a mammoth-sized game like this they shat out Empire, which was a solid 3/10 and needs 10 GB of mods to be any good.

Baranga

Empire was a fun game and not even close to 3/10. Just becuase you don't like doesn't make it shat. At least they actually had the correct firing system, unlike the total BS in the next game and shogun only 2 lines fire really

Great news. I loved Rome the most of the Total War series.

Those graphics look amazing btw. Can't wait to see more of it

Empire is a fun game with DarthMod, I was actually playing it last week.

It's still a huge f*cking mess. They threw in everything but the kitchen sink, especially in the campaign map. IMO it was a mistake to go from the centralized development of the previous games to this Paradox-but-shlt model.

nononoo, not 2013, I want this NOAW

so hyped about this. hope they dont bite of more then they can chew though *cough Empire*

Stolen from the System Wars thread...

SEGA and Creative Assembly have lifted the lid on Rome II: Total War, showing an impressive 15 minute demo revolving around Roman efforts to reduce Carthage to rubble.The headline new features are a redesigned graphics engine, a greater sense of scale and a stylish new cinematic unit camera.

During the presentation, Creative Assembly walked us through plenty of details about what Rome II intends to offer when it's released in late 2013, and lead designer James Russell spoke about the game's intentions.

• • Shogun 2 was set in narrow geographical areas, with limited sets of units - a comparatively small scale to what's being intended with Rome II. It was designed with a focus on game systems, such as engine polishing and improvements to unit pathing.
  • With that in place, Rome II is going big - it'sbigger than Rome 1 in geographical scale.

• • The game's key design vision is in taking players from a macro to micro scale, such as jumping from a campaign map to a single unit.
    
  • Despite that focus, Rome II is still attempting to make its macro scale bigger - we're guessing the senate will play a large part of that, but Creative Assembly won't say just yet.
  • As you rise through the ranks, your success will attract less-than-favourable responses from some of your friends. You will almost definitely get betrayed. There's "more human-level drama on the campaign map" in Rome II.
  • The bigger campaign map has "hundreds" of regions to move your units around, but the game buckets them into provinces to make management easier.The idea is to have you thinking about armies and legions rather than fiddling around with individual units.
  • Ultimately,the game will allow you to decide whether to favour the republic or become Rome's dictator.
  • The game's cameras have been redesigned.You can now lock the camera to single units.In this mode it functions like a sort of documentary cam, shaking while the unit walks ? it's "a soldier's eye view"according to Creative Assembly.
  • The demonstration takes place with a scenario set duringthe Third Punic War, which took place during 149BC to 146BC. The scenario here is the Siege of Carthage.
  • Rome II: Total War features anew graphics engine, which features particle and deferred lighting.
  • The game can now combine naval and land battles into the same conflict, including naval invasions:in this demo a Roman ship lands on the coast of Carthage.
  • Naval units now have more than one ship per unit.
  • Though expected, we see catapults and ballistae being put to good use.
  • The demo has a big focus on Roman siege towers, and the snap-to unit camera takes the view of the game inside the siege tower itself.
  • Conflicts take place over much bigger environments - much of Carthage has been recreated in the demo. To accommodate this extra scale, the game now features a top-down tactical map.

• • There are multiple ways to capture cities.Walls can be reduced to rubble after they've sustained enough damage, for instance. It's designed to create cat-and-mouse gameplay: "You're not just sitting in the plaza once the walls are breached trying to defend that one area"
  • There's a real oomph when units engage, with walls of shields colliding.
  • The new graphics engine can show some impressive fidelity for a game of this scale. We can clearly see that Cathage's walls have graffiti.
  • Buildings crumble in the background as Carthage deploys its war elephants and the demo ends.

• The unit camera has been designed so the game feels like it's "almost Saving Private Ryan at the beaches".
  
• Each unit has its own facial animations, and leaders bark out a stream of orders throughout. each confrontation.
• Units react to things, such as their colleagues being slaughtered- the idea is that these aren't idenikit clone armies anymore.

Awesome live action trailer :http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/07/02/total-war-rome-ii-faces-of-rome-live-action-trailer

My biggest wish for PC-gaming have been granted and most of my fears have been dealt with. I just hope that we'll see the same amount of faction variety as with Rome 1.

danish-death

Oh my god. This game...

This god damn game...

The hell is the reasoning for some live trailer? How pointless and what waste of marketing money. Give me ingame footage.

i beleive their trying to ensure all of em have a sequel before having threequels likely this means their will by a total war: empire II and total war: napoleon II before they have total war medival III

ionusX

Yuck. They should skip over Empire.

Hold on to yer butts guys! Last time CA attempted a mammoth-sized game like this they shat out Empire, which was a solid 3/10 and needs 10 GB of mods to be any good.

Baranga

More like a seven. Not anywhere close to a three.

• • The game can now combine naval and land battles into the same conflict, including naval invasions:in this demo a Roman ship lands on the coast of Carthage.
  • Naval units now have more than one ship per unit.

danish-death

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• • The game can now combine naval and land battles into the same conflict, including naval invasions:in this demo a Roman ship lands on the coast of Carthage.
  • Naval units now have more than one ship per unit.

Swiftstrike5

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i beleive their trying to ensure all of em have a sequel before having threequels likely this means their will by a total war: empire II and total war: napoleon II before they have total war medival III

airshocker

Yuck. They should skip over Empire.

They learned a lot from Empire. I think they could make an Empire II no problem now. The tech has improved and they are more experianced with that kind of combat.

If there is one thing I'm hoping for, is that each and every single city has a unique layout that conforms with its historical layout. Too many clone cities in Rome.

Owners of AMD 7800 and 7900 series video cards haven't been able to play Shogun 2 since the release of Fall of the Samurai several months ago. Neither CA nor AMD seems too concerned with fixing this bug.

I'd advise all AMD card owners to put off purchasing any CA products until they can be sure that they'll work.

High res screenshots:

Wow:shock:

Here's a preview I suggestion you all read.

This is going to be the best Total War ever. Simple as that.

Should be awesome, one of my fav current series

Excellent, I hope they make it as big of a game as Empire was. As long as you use darthmod ultimate commander there is no better strategy game in existence than Empire: Total War.

I figured the next would be Rome 2 but I was hoping for something in a completely new setting. That said I am looking forward to some classical era naval battles. Ramming speed anyone?:D

Cant wait.

The question is how much the Carthage DLC will cost.

dsgsdfgf

HAHAHA:P

This game...just the announcement almost brings tears of joy to my eyes! The first time I played Rome in 2004...I've never stopped playing it since. I literally grew up with this game. I can't stand the wait...I wish they hadn't announced it! They should have announced it like, a month before release! Where do I buy a time machine?!?

Finally, I've longed waited for this day.

Here's a preview I suggestion you all read.

This is going to be the best Total War ever. Simple as that.

Wasdie

Ehh, I'll do the same for this game as I do for every big-hype game.... wait and see. Especially seeing as they seem to be trying to go Paradox.

I better start saving for a 780GTX (no, that wasn't a typo ... ;) I know my 570 will have trouble running this at max.

I better start saving for a 780GTX (yes, the 780 ... ;) I know my 570 will have trouble running this at max.

Ehh, I'll do the same for this game as I do for every big-hype game.... wait and see. Especially seeing as they seem to be trying to go Paradox.

Barbariser

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i beleive their trying to ensure all of em have a sequel before having threequels likely this means their will by a total war: empire II and total war: napoleon II before they have total war medival III

Wasdie

Yuck. They should skip over Empire.

They learned a lot from Empire. I think they could make an Empire II no problem now. The tech has improved and they are more experianced with that kind of combat.

Wow, it's a great year for strategy games announcements and expansion packs lol!

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Ehh, I'll do the same for this game as I do for every big-hype game.... wait and see. Especially seeing as they seem to be trying to go Paradox.

MacBoomStick

I'm aware of that, and their ability to simulate history is well above anything CA's ever done, too. That's why I'm skeptical - CA's trying to break into something that their games have never really been good at.

So excited for this! Hope they have the same amount of unit variety as the first (even more) as the recent total war games have shared the same units throughout most of the factions which has been quite disappointing (even if it's for realism.) But rome total war 2, YEAAAH BOIIIII!