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

[Greve Af Göteborg]

Well, that looked pretty damn awesome. I liked the Germanian forests, very green :p

[* Matolo Swazulu *]

Amazing gameplay and visuals once again! Some good animations and nice artwork!

[Irish guy]

The battle seemed like a disorganised mess to me.

[SturmChurro]

Wow...That campaign map.. Was really great, I do wish there was more battle footage, though. It was really rushed.

I didn't much like the interviewer either..

[MrChris]

really liked the campaign map, great variety of terrain and climate, those lush european forests in contrast to the dusty med

city looked great as well when you construct a new building, caught a few of the building names, different kinds of temples (so safe to assume those will be like they were in Rome 1)

I quite like the styling of the unit cards as well, but I think it might make it hard for some people to identify some units

[stradar1]

Yeah that was pretty short......... He said up to 4 players in MP???????????

Trying to watch it again but not letting me grrr LoL

[Fazotronic]

EPIC stuff
stupid interviewer

[Kelsper]

Got this from the stream, figured I would screencap it at the time.

[dom385]

Just me that was surprised at how big the ballista were? They seemed crazy big! Not a fan of the interviewer at all, I mean it's good that he challenged stuff but he seemed to swing between sounding bored and sounding like a whiny child.

I really wanna see a battle played out properly though, so far they're really rushed and the cameras zooming all over the place! It's not like they'd give too much away by giving us a slow run through of a battle. From what I did catch though it looks amazing, the campaign map (especially the eurpean bit) and the battle although it would have been nice to have seen more detail. I thought the unit card seemed pretty easy to distinguish and seemed to have been changed since we last saw them.

[G-Spike]

i missed most of the presentation. Hopefully its gonna be posted somewhere.. what i saw was really good

[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 !

[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:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[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.

[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.