TOTAL WAR ROME 2 BLOOD AND GORE SERIES

Welcome to your geopolitical nightmare of supply lines, noble intrigue that's not all that intriguing, the appeasement of occupied territories and subsequent squashing of rebellion when you fail, diplomacy that the AI never agrees to no matter how much you sweeten the deal, and more. The game is called Total War, not Combat Simulator, and I guess this is where the 'Total' part comes into play. The campaign strings these battles together with the narrative of an empire and whole lotta micromanaging to keep up the war effort. A battle is just that, pitting one generals units and reinforcements against another and can be played as recreating historic skirmishes of the era or detailing new settings to come up with any scenario you like. So take everything that follows with that grain of salt.īasically, from the main menu you get the option to jump into a campaign or fight individual battles and both can be done via single or multiplayer. I haven't evolved with the game but I also get the benefit of looking at it with fresh eyes. So as a new player, I can't really speak on that.

TOTAL WAR ROME 2 BLOOD AND GORE SERIES

I've not played a game in the series before. Perhaps this is par for the course with the Total War series. But on the other this locked and loaded DLC really gives that sleazy feeling that this is just DLC for the sake of squeezing out more cash from customers than really pushing the game further through continued development. On the one hand this is a very graphically impressive AAA strategy game that does not pull punches with production values. So there is this first impression of the game that kinda works two ways. Now there is already DLC available to purchase to insert the gore, but what is so total about war that's been whitewashed of its blood and guts? And why was there day one DLC, and not five weeks later two more expansions that insert what seems should be already included as an option in the settings and unlock troops that were already present, but unplayable, in the release version. The narrator closes the cinematic: 'The air was filled with smoke and blood.' But where is that blood? Because at the same time that this game is about the killing of armies and sacking of cities, it's remarkably PG in its unaltered state. In reality, this is a game about war and you will find no heroes brutalizing the land and peoples of the 5th century.

Though that opening cinematic does detail the base shell of its former glory that has become the empire of Rome, it also seems to frame Attila as a bit of a heroic figure, a fresh light to shine in the darkness that has befallen the 'civilized' world. From the opening cinematic it becomes abundantly clear that Total War: Attila is going to pull out all the stops to put forth the very best production Creative Assembly are able.

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