{"id":9623,"date":"2013-08-20T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2013-08-20T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T13:42:50","slug":"total-war-rome-2-and-now-the-battles-over-land-and-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/total-war-rome-2-and-now-the-battles-over-land-and-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Total War: Rome 2 – And Now the Battles, Over Land and Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sega and Creative Assembly continue their Total War: Rome 2<\/a> showcase. This time they present the battles, on both land and sea. The land battle video shows a \u00a0Macedonian vs Roman skirmish against the AI played in “Very Hard” mode. My immediate reaction watching this was like: “Ok, this looks rather\u00a0familiar.”. I mean, the way you select and deploy troops on the battlefield and the general look & feel really reminded me of good old Rome: Total War, though more good looking now of course.<\/p>\n

The other video shows how naval warfare works with lots of ships ramming around, arrows raining from everywhere and chaotic ship boarding. Total havoc on sea really, all in a very appealing atmosphere. And everything looks very good indeed, but that hardly tells anything at all, at least with respect to strategy games. I would say that if they stuck to the original formula and managed to increase the game’s depth without overcomplicating\u00a0things, this can turn out to be a hell of a good sequel. At least it seems to have all the ingredients to be one, judging from what I saw here and in the campaign trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Total War: Rome 2 is set to release on September 3rd, 2013 for the PC. Creative Assembly is currently\u00a0selling pre-orders<\/a>\u00a0for $59.95\/\u20ac54,99. We’ll be reviewing this one. So, if you can hold your swords just for a little while longer after release you’ll play it safe, since this is quite an expensive game after all.<\/p>\n