09-13-2013, 04:09 AM
The Guardian gave it two out of five stars:
The developers behind Total War: Rome II clearly have enormous talent; but this game as a whole is a failure of project management. So many elements are polished to a shine and yet at no point do they even threaten to come together. And so Rome II comes to depend purely on its battles and the fumes of nostalgia from a game more than a decade old – an inspiration that, in all honesty, it is not fit to be compared to.
I saw someone on Facebook saying that it should get better with patches. I really hope so. I spent untold hours on the first one and really loved it. At this point, though, I'm not going to buy this one.
The developers behind Total War: Rome II clearly have enormous talent; but this game as a whole is a failure of project management. So many elements are polished to a shine and yet at no point do they even threaten to come together. And so Rome II comes to depend purely on its battles and the fumes of nostalgia from a game more than a decade old – an inspiration that, in all honesty, it is not fit to be compared to.
I saw someone on Facebook saying that it should get better with patches. I really hope so. I spent untold hours on the first one and really loved it. At this point, though, I'm not going to buy this one.
David J. Cord
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