Quote Originally Posted by Puzz3D
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CA's vision is to make the game play like the movies "Gladiator" and "Braveheart".

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Thanks. I had been wondering about the whole 'vision thing' but now I know!

Or could it be that Gladiator and Braveheart are really good marketing metaphors and 'image shorthand' for what we're doing with the scale of things and the level of excitement in the game?

Mr Roxburgh has a very hard job trying to get over the whole Rome: Total War concept in one or two sentences that are going to stick in people's heads and get them fired up. Anyone on these forums is already clued up on the idea of Rome, but the same is not true necessarily for the hundreds of thousands of potential players that we'd like to reach. Hence his use of those particular metaphors.