ROME II. First impressions.

Send me a copy, then i'll review it for you :)

The Angry Joe footage is hilarious.

The game stopped working for me yesterday, I can't launch it since then. Also I must play it on lowest details - it looks aweful and setting higher settings doesn't have any impact on graphics, it just lowers FPS.

first impression: ITS SHIT
second impression: its not that bad but it should be much better

Since Empire, I did not pre-order a Total War game and I am happy about it. Last good game from CA was Medieval 2, after that it went fubar. Shogun 2 was kinda ok, I liked some things and hated others, but overall it was a good game even though not on par with rome/medieval II. Seeing how dumbed down the game has become and always has the same problems in every iteration (mainly AI) I have a feeling the only thing that gets improved and use to market the game is the graphics (which is funny, cause the reason why I originally bought the original Shogun TW was the screenshots of those huge armies). Add the fact that the game is hard to mod, compared to its predecessors (expanded map? total conversion mods? ) just so that they can sell you their factions DLCs and there is not much to be happy about. I would like the Total War games to be great, but so far this seems just a wishful thought.

I dont own it yet (hell I havent had a chance to touch the total war series since the first shogun and medieval) BUT I can say with certainty that you should give them a chance to send out patches for the bugs everyone is having issues with before making full judgement.

Granted that would be unacceptable years ago but thats the world we live in. Games come out sooner but they can be a little buggy. Sometimes even the best games are, like Enemy Unknown for example.

Only thing I heard: Bugs, bugs everywhere.

Was annoyed that you can't save during the prologue.

Does it have horrible castle takeovers like Shogun 2?

It's a great game and I love it. But they really need to put an optimization patch because I am having low FPS problems and Shogun 2 runs and looks better than Rome 2 on my system. I understand they will patch it on tomorrow, which is great.

Currently $80 here. That's about $70 over my budget this month, unfortunately (not that I would spend that much on a single game even if I had it - I'm cheap like that!) :)

That said, I'm sure it will be available for that in the June/July winter sale next year, and the bugs should have been squashed by then too.

Hopefully they can sort things out soon, as while it's working for some, there are plenty of unhappy people who paid top dollar to get this as soon as it came out, and they deserve better :(

I can't even play Empire right now. There is no way I order another TW title unless they can figure out how to make their previous titles run properly via Steam.

I was really disappointed, being my first TW experience (likely also my last). I really think I would've enjoyed the series had they figured out whatever the problems are. I have zero trouble running any other game in Steam. That includes ancient titles like Ghost Master, and late-model AAA titles.