{"id":7178,"date":"2012-07-06T08:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T12:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=7178"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:31:11","slug":"rome-total-war-2-announced-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/rome-total-war-2-announced-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome: Total War 2 Announced for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a bit of old news now but I still think it deserves a post for the 4X and Total War games’ fans delight. Rome: Total War’s sequel Total War: Rome 2 has been recently announced<\/a> by The Creative Assembly.<\/p>\n

As you probably know we also post about non-space\/scifi games from time to time, when we find them of special interest to the blog’s strategy gaming community. We think that the Total War series is such a case.<\/p>\n

Not much is know about this Rome: Total War’s sequel yet, but there are a few bits of information around already. I\u00a0recommend\u00a0an interesting\u00a0preview made by EuroGamer<\/a>, where they talk with the communications manager for The Creative Assembly.<\/p>\n

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In this preview they talk about “bigger and bloodier battles”. They also stated that “navies and armies\u00a0can now fight alongside one another” and that battles are “played out in a much prettier version of the series’ real-time battle engine and suggests all sorts of destructible scenery”.\u00a0The budget is bigger –\u00a0“about 40 per cent bigger” than any other project Creative Assembly has ever undertaken. And, they’re aiming\u00a0for a tentative release date on the “second half of 2013”.<\/p>\n

The Roman Empire is one of my favorite eras of all history, and Rome: Total War one of my favorite games. It surely is a big hit in the strategy\/4X gaming community. With Total War: Rome 2 looks like we’ll be travelling back again to the times of “The Glory of Rome”, and now apparently even in a more epic scale.<\/p>\n