Rome 2: Total War @ E3 & REZZED - discussion page

[Cresilia]

Looked awesome, the giant ballistae were weird. Seemed OP to me, but hey.

The European campaign map looks swag!

[-Concrete-]

Could do with a link to a recording, I missed it!

[1cmanny1]

I could do with one as well. Eventually we should be able to download it from gamespot though.

[xernoxis]

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/stage-1-day-2/
Then skip backwards to about 06:41:00.

I really loved the campaign map, and it looked so enormous! I was like damn it takes for ever to get to the edge with the camera.
Also the city expansion while you build was really cool! I missed those in the previous titles, and now the campaign map will be much more dynamic. Can't wait !

[-Concrete-]

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/stage-1-day-2/
Then skip backwards to about 06:41:00.

I really loved the campaign map, and it looked so enormous! I was like damn it takes for ever to get to the edge with the camera.
Also the city expansion while you build was really cool! I missed those in the previous titles, and now the campaign map will be much more dynamic. Can't wait !

Thanks man this worked like a charm.

[SpecialPH]

Rome II was just featured on Gamespot Livecam. IT was announced the game will start around the time of 2nd Punic War.

[Gugg]

Just saw it on livecam as well. Poor guy, the interviewer should have been more prepared I think. Created alot of awkward silences

[Jokern]

Some screenshots I took:

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[stradar1]

So I watched it again and he said something about MP!!! he said the normal modes head to head and up to 4 players!!!! Sounds like 4 players on the MPC Fellas!!!!!!

[toopers]

Stradar where did you rewatch it? i cant go back in the Livestream.

[1cmanny1]

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/total-war...-demo-6410148/

The interviewer was bad, maybe he was tired to something. He did ask okay questions though.

[SturmChurro]

So I watched it again and he said something about MP!!! he said the normal modes head to head and up to 4 players!!!! Sounds like 4 players on the MPC Fellas!!!!!!

Hmm.. I misunderstood, you mean 2v2 MPC head to head. A 4 player MPC? I still really want to see how they will do multiplayer. How they will do the avatar campaign.

[oOIYvYIOo]

[stradar1]

Well he did say head to head up to 4 players it makes me think of MPC for some reason I hope its true.

[SturmChurro]

Well he did say head to head up to 4 players it makes me think of MPC for some reason I hope its true.

Maybe it has something to do with something like the avatar campaign?

[Iaius Statius Laurentius]

Maybe I need to catch the video version, but the UI just isn't grabbing me on the screencaps... nor are the stylized DOS-looking unit cards. Are they supposed to resemble black-figure vases, or something? That's really anachronistic for a game that takes place in the Hellenistic era centuries later... really, really jarring. Hellenistic art is really gorgeous and lifelike, not archaic and stiff, without any kinetics. Even a classical red-figure design would look better, if still inappropriate.

I know some people are fans of minimalist UIs, but dammit I liked the old RTW-style UI with columns and faux marbles and scrolls and the like. The whole techie-look just doesn't fit the era.

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Everything looks awesome except unit and building cards. Not the best style but i bet ill get used to it.

[-iceblade^]

Had reservations about the campaign map earlier (when looking at the desert areas) but starting to move away from that - those forests (Gaul) look pretty epic...

[ptoss1]

Had reservations about the campaign map earlier (when looking at the desert areas) but starting to move away from that - those forests (Gaul) look pretty epic...

They seem barren to me, although I am rather biases considering how much I hated the Shogun 2 map.
Desert is more epic. I want to see the east now. Glad to see Scythia is there.

[DarthShizNit]

I'm liking the tities on that capital ships statue.