Rome: Total War Site is now up!

[Grifman]

Website is here:

http://www.totalwar.com/rome.htm

Preview is here:

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...909133,00.html

Cool pics - we now have troops on walls, assault towers, and scaling/attacking walls.

Enjoy,

Grifman

PS, I think we need a new forum

[Shahed]

WOW thx for the Gamespot link Griff

[Acronym]

from the article:
As fans have hoped, the next game will feature fully 3D units in the tactical battles, and the screenshots show that they'll have quite a bit of detail when seen close-up.

I was under the impression that most the fans really didn't want 3d because of system demands, at least until we were told it wouldn't be more demanding than MTW

[Spino]

For some insane reason when I go to Gamespot's site I get no pictures?? Even when I go to the root directory (www.gamespot.com) and try to access the Rome preview I still get no pictures....

AAAAHHHH

Are they the same screenshots as the ones posted at Totalwar.com or are they completely different? If so then could someone please save them to your hard drive and then e-mail them to me?

Pretty please?

grecoroman@mindspring.com

[barocca]

Quote[/b] (Acronym @ Jan. 17 2003,19:20)]from the article:
As fans have hoped, the next game will feature fully 3D units in the tactical battles, and the screenshots show that they'll have quite a bit of detail when seen close-up.

Quote[/b] (Acronym @ Jan. 17 2003,19:20)]
I was under the impression that most the fans really didn't want 3d because of system demands, at least until we were told it wouldn't be more demanding than MTW

from the article

Epic battles between collosal armies. Over 10,000 fully polygonal, motion captured units can be displayed simultaneously with virtually no sacrifice of performance compared to Medieval: Total War.

[Spino]

To add to Barocca's quotes...

This is from Dutch, one of the developers, over at the official forum...

Quote[/b] ]Dutch
Registered User
Posts: 2
(1/17/03 4:39:29 am)
Reply Re: What video card
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Currently it runs on just about anything; we've have had it running on 4mb Voodoo1 cards. The look starts to degrade with less than 16 mb of texture memory though, so a TNT2-type card with at least that will probably end up being the listed minimum.

This is still early days, so keep in mind that it could all still change without warning. Forward looking statements and all that...

dutch ~ CA

Taken from this thread...

http://pub24.ezboard.com/fshoguntotalwar...

It looks like CA put together an exceptionally capable 3D engine for future iterations of the Total War series. I'll still feel better about things when I upgrade to a Radeon 9700 this Spring...

[Gregoshi]

Quote[/b] ]
Currently it runs on just about anything; we've have had it running on 4mb Voodoo1 cards. The look starts to degrade with less than 16 mb of texture memory though, so a TNT2-type card with at least that will probably end up being the listed minimum

My PII 350 and Voodoo3 tell me they are still skeptical...(but I'm pretty happy).