Overall, there’s an even greater sense here that your own empire-building is taking place on a larger world stage, where the alliances of others have a dramatic effect on how soft or hard you have to play things. There are some new tweaks this time around. And without trade and taxing for a firm financial footing, you’ll soon find your war chest running dry. As in any good Civ-style game, buildings aren’t just unit factories as they would be in an RTS some, like churches or brothels, play an important part in keeping your population happy and save your cities from riots or open rebellion. In each turn there are troops that need recruiting, generals and armies that need moving, buildings that need building, fleets that need directing and agents – spies, assassins, diplomats and the like – that need to be shifted around the map. With Rome, The Creative Assembly made serious efforts to ensure that the turn-based portion could stand up in its own right, and this trend is, if anything, even more pronounced here. In other words, it’s a ridiculously brilliant game.Īs before, the main single-player campaign game is split in two, with a turn-based map in which you build units, develop your cities and grow your power base, and real-time battles when it’s time for your armies to hit the field.
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Predictably, Medieval 2 is just what you might expect: a glossy update of the original Medieval: Total War, taking into account the changes and refinements added in Rome: Total War, but with new enhancements thrown on top. So some spiteful, cynical part of me wants to tell you that this is where it all goes wrong – this is where Total War jumps the shark. Even Age of Empires and Civilization can’t say that.
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The result is that rarest of things: a series that just keeps on getting better without a single damp-squib in the set. The Creative Assembly got the basics right with the very first game, Shogun, and have steadily refined it and expanded on it with each subsequent version, taking advantage of increased system speeds and new graphics hardware, but never radically reinventing the game or making an attempt to dumb it down in order to reach the widest possible audience. Part of the secret has been an evolutionary approach to the game design. As far as most sensible people are concerned, the Total War series has become the gold standard for epic strategy games.
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