The Roma Surrectum and Rome Total Realism development teams have been working together for a long time,
sharing knowledge and recourses and because of that we thought it would be great if we could promote each other and display all the updates from across the lake to each others fan base.
Introduction to Roma Surrectum II
Despite the fact that many people were saying Rome: Total War was dead during our developement of Roma Surrectum I and its later versions, and suggesting that we move on to the then-new Medieval 2: Total War, Roma Surrectum I became a very popular mod with a lot of popular interest. So, we as a team decided to work on a 'complete' overhaul of Rome: Total War and call it Roma Surrectum II. At the time, I don't think any of us had any idea of what this would involve, or how much of our time and lives it would consume. But we became more and more immersed in the project, learned along the way what we could and could not do, and realized that Rome: Total War still had a lot of potential to be an outstanding experience for fans of this time period.
Our focus has been, for Roma Surrectum II, to create a historical setting that is fun to play, significantly more difficult than Roma Surrectum I was, and visually appealing. To do this we found or were approached by our own historians and artists, we learned, we tore Medieval 2: Total War apart to see what Creative Assembly had done to it (and incorporated anything we could from it), and basically picked the minds of nearly every modder who ever did much of anything on this site for advice, ideas and insight. For that reason, I am very grateful to all those who answered questions and were so helpful in helping us to accomplish this task.
Roma Surrectum II took a long time to develop, and our fans were very faithful in accepting, over and over, our statements that it was coming along, and we were committed to finishing it. I know there was 'some' impatience, but I think when people see this mod with their own eyes and not just screen shots, they'll understand why it took three years to build this thing. It was often very overwhelming: the amount of work and attention to detail a bit staggering, and the pressure to finish such a work of art not only for the fans, but for all those who put so much time and effort into it was tremendous. But, at long last:
The first patch for Roma Surrectum II has been released, head down to our forum for more information and the download link.
~ Roma Surrectum Developer Team.
The Roma Surrectum team has recently released an impressive patch, which adds lots content and amazing graphical improvements to their mod. Don't forget to check it out!