As you know the bigger and more advanced the games get, the more horsepower is needed to run the games. I was wondering, I am able to play all the Total War games thus far but Shogun II gave my PC a bit of a hard time and the graphics I was able to use weren't of the greatest standard and I am unsure if my PC will be able to run Rome II at all. I am wondering because this game is going to be so big and advanced if The Creative Assembly have thought about putting the game on Onlive so that it will be dependent upon your internet connection as to how well the game runs rather than spending vast amounts of money on upgrading or even replacing the computer you already use if it is getting old. This way, I believe, Rome II will increase the amount of sales that it will get due to the attraction of a far larger audience of Onlive gamers.
For those who do not know what Onlive is then it is like steam where you can buy games off its database but play them through your hardware in your PC. However, Onlive goes one stage further and allows you to disregard all of your computer hardware and plays the game via an internet connection instead so as long as your have a half-decent connection then you can play the game without the bulk of a flash computer.
http://www.onlive.co.uk/
Would love to hear some feedback from this