Demo Impressions

**Steppe Merc** · 08-22-2004, 22:02

Don't worry Froggy... mabye when some of the mods come out it will renew your intrest. One thing about the units is that they seemed all on speed... The triarri zipped along, and was a bit difficult to keep up with them.

**Lazul** · 08-22-2004, 22:11

Playing the battle 3 times, beating the romans all the time... ok not on the most difficult level.
Now, thing is it doesnt give you the same "feeling" as shogun or mtw did. Im still buying this game but in the battle I had some trubble keeping up with what was happening, its was like all units was on Speed.
Im just hoping that a few upgrades on my computer and the real game will make me feel much happier!

and god damn it CA... stop calling them Barbarians...

**Steppe Merc** · 08-22-2004, 22:14

Here here Lazul!

**frogbeastegg** · 08-22-2004, 22:18

Did anyone else have trouble with thier javelin skirmishers? They kept retreating before the enemy and I don't mean in MTW 'enemy are in range so we will run' style, more 'enemy are within a mile of us, we are off!' style. I don't think they even got half way into range, but the battle was so fast they might have throw a jav or two when I wasn't looking. It resembled one of those Benny Hill farces, with my skirmishers running everywhere chased by a walking unit of Romans who were a very long way behind.

Steppe Merc, yes, I am rather relying on mods now since the demo failed to convince me RTW would last a long time on its own. :sigh: I can't even say I had high expectationswhich have been dashed and ruined my experience; I settled into mild ambivolence some time ago.

**crazyviking03** · 08-22-2004, 22:31

Yes, the new speed is alittle different, will take some getting used to. I tell my elephants to walk to a point, and I am waiting for them to get there, expecting the usual TW speed, but, wait.. they are already where I told them to go! I am very pleased with how well this has worked on my current comp, which has 256 RAM and a TNT2 64mb card. It runs pretty well on this, I have no worrys about the game, because I am getting my other computer back on Tuesday, adn it has more RAM and a better graphics card!! WOO HOO!

**Monk** · 08-22-2004, 22:31

Well i just played the demo, aside from the great graphics there was nothing special imho.

the tutorial battle was...well...unexciting to say the least (its a turotial i know but still...)

the backstory to trebia before the battle was a nice touch i thought, but when i saw that the Romans got to start nearly within arms reach of my lines i wasn't a very "happy hannibal". my skirmishers were far from my lines, who by the way, decided to turn tail and run for their worthless lives as soon as i unpaused. The only real action i made was moving the elephants to the far flanks just before i charged them, followed by Infantry and cavalry and well... no more romans. It felt like the battle was fought for me, which was a severe disappointment to somebody who was looking to have a small bit of fun while fighting the romans.

I'll still end up buying rtw...but as ar as demos go, this one just didn't do anything for me.

**Medieval Assassin** · 08-22-2004, 23:00

I hope my 500Mhz, can handle this demo, if I get it... I don't care if everything is max, I just want to play the campain mode with all the good new stuff, and fight battles, I don't need to be so far zoomed in I can see everyones teeth.

**nightcrawlerblue** · 08-22-2004, 23:18

You talked about bluriness from a distance? Try putting on some Anisotropic Filtering that might help.

**Husar** · 08-22-2004, 23:33

I don´t have the demo yet, I can wait till tomorrow, but what i read here is sounds really sad...

Especially that everything is faster sounds really bad to me, combined with some other things it sounds like Rome was really thought to be one of these modern mainstream strategy games where speed is everything. Until now, Rome was about the only strategy game I was looking forward to, hoping I would get even more excitement looking at the battles than I got from MTW, sounds like I won´t get that. It always reminds me of other strategy games where you can build the strongest tank, said to be armored like a bunker, and bang, bang, two shots of the right rock-scissors-paper-unit and your "super" tank is gone -> I hate that and it´s one of the reasons I did never buy games like C&C Generals. Modern games get more and more disgusting in my eyes and I know why I didn´t preorder Rome...
Of course I will play the demo tomorrow, but I´m not 100% sure anymore if I will really buy the game, unless such things can be changed.
*going away a bit disappointed*