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Rome: Total War Mod Finally Completed
Realism team worked for 70 years
By Alexander the Pretty Good
Friday, November 17, 2074 11:67AM
Europa Barbarorum, the highly anticipated modification for turn-of-the-century strategy game Rome: Total War, was finally released today. Thousands of downloads have been made as aging fans rushed to acquire the long-sought mod.
Started before the release of Rome: Total War, in 2004, the Europa Barbarorum team was founded to correct the historical inaccuracies rampant in the original game. The seventy years of development were spent digilantly researching and generating game content and code. But the road to success wasn't easy.
"It got a lot harder when Khelven passed away," said team historian Steppe Merc, one of the surviving original members. "We were directionless, and lost several people. Fortunately, Khelven II, Khelven's son, stepped in when he did. That was in the spring of 2047. We released the Open Beta just weeks after that. And now we're here."
The Open Beta release was overshadowed by rioting on the Lunar Colonies and tensions in the Middle East, where Iraq and Syria were in the middle of a border dispute.
More recent efforts to hype up the final release were moderately successful, which equates to a literal miracle. "We are very grateful to the fans who stuck with us," EB member Divinus Arma was quoted saying in an interview. "Ultimately, they made it all possible."
The team has announced plans to port the game to Barbarian Invasion, the acclaimed expansion for Rome: Total War. Khelven II, now leader of the Europa Barbarorum team, had this to say: "There's no telling what we'll do after [releasing the Barbarian Invasion port]. Maybe another realism mod, this time for Mars: Total War. Or a virtual reality simulation of life in the Roman World."
Whatever happens next, the future is bright for those who mod for the past.
