Demo Impressions

**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*

**DemonArchangel** · 08-22-2004, 23:50

Even the DEMO is so addicting
I don't think i can handle the real game without failing every class at school.

**crazyviking03** · 08-23-2004, 00:34

Ofcourse this is the semester when I take 19 credit hours!!!! ARG!!!! Ohwell, they are all history and latin, so it shouldnt be too rough. I just have to say, though it may not be realistic, when those elephants crash down hill into those romans, and 20 of them go flying, it is freaking awsome!