First (?) review of Rome: Total War

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SpifDK 16:51 09-22-2004

A Danish game magazine, >pcplayer, has reviewed Rome: Total war and gave it an overall score of 9,5. That doens't happen very often. Normally, they give really good games about 8.

Overall: 9,5
Graphichs: 9
Sound: 8
Music: 8
Challenge/AI: 9
Interface: 9
Gameplay: 10
Værdi: 10
Tilt: 10 ("Best strategy game ever? Possibly...")

Total War fans… rejoice!

SpifDK 16:53 09-22-2004

BTW, please move this thread to The Colosseum.

SpifDK 17:00 09-22-2004

Can't junior patrons edit their posts?

Anyway, forgot to translate all the different categories and even made a horrible spelling mistake. Here they are again:

Overall: 9,5
Graphics: 9
Sound: 8
Music: 8
Challenge/AI: 9
Interface: 9
Gameplay: 10
Value: 10
Tilt: 10 ("Best strategy game ever? Possibly...")

Tamur 17:18 09-22-2004

No, no edits until Senior Patron. Thanks for posting this -- any online references you can point at that we can read? Sounds like a splendid review.

Ldvs 18:00 09-22-2004

Originally Posted by Tamur:
Sounds like a splendid review.

Unless you speak danish fluently you will not read this review

Thanks for the good news though. Not that I worried a lot about RTW before

Magraev 18:16 09-22-2004

Some of us would like the link anyways...

Colovion 18:38 09-22-2004

9.125

Tamur 18:40 09-22-2004

Yes, there are Danes here and of those who aren't, some of us can stumble through with the occasional word lookup... if it's not available online then that's ok.

boot 19:28 09-22-2004

I feel a bit silly....but what does TILT mean?...i know gameplay means how long it will last but im not sure about TILT or is TILT how long a game lasts?

Boot

Magraev 20:57 09-22-2004

Tilt is just the reviewers own oppinion, that unquantifiable "sumfink" that some games have and some don't.

SpifDK 21:15 09-22-2004

Originally Posted by Colovion:
9.125

The overall score is not an average.

Originally Posted by boot:
I feel a bit silly....but what does TILT mean?...i know gameplay means how long it will last but im not sure about TILT or is TILT how long a game lasts?

Boot

Tilt is the reviewer’s personal opinion of the game.

Just read the review. It's 6 pages long, but most of the information we already know. There was one thing, however, that really caught my attention: troop loyalty. Playing as the Julii faction, they had been on a 20-year-long campaign against the Barbarians. While the faction leader was fighting Germans, his heir had to take care of all the financials back home. So when all of a sudden the faction leader died of old age in the middle of enemy land, half of his troops choose to become mercenaries rather than serving the heir that had spend his life in luxury. They didn't have any particular loyalty towards him, as he had never proven himself in battle.

I also liked what I read about the new Virtue system. Apparently they will have an effect on the general’s speech at the start of each battle. If he’s a coward, he will for instance tell the troops that he will not participate directly in the battle, but only watch from a distance. Like in Medieval, killing a lot of prisoners and chasing down routing enemies will grant the general murderous tendencies, which will make for some very interesting speeches ;)

Ldvs 21:35 09-22-2004

Originally Posted by SpifDK:
Just read the review. It's 6 pages long, but most of the information we already know. There was one thing, however, that really caught my attention: troop loyalty. Playing as the Julii faction, they had been on a 20-year-long campaign against the Barbarians. While the faction leader was fighting Germans, his heir had to take care of all the financials back home. So when all of a sudden the faction leader died of old age in the middle of enemy land, half of his troops choose to become mercenaries rather than serving the heir that had spend his life in luxury. They didn't have any particular loyalty towards him, as he had never proven himself in battle.

I also liked what I read about the new Virtue system. Apparently they will have an effect on the general’s speech at the start of each battle. If he’s a coward, he will for instance tell the troops that he will not participate directly in the battle, but only watch from a distance. Like in Medieval, killing a lot of prisoners and chasing down routing enemies will grant the general murderous tendencies, which will make for some very interesting speeches ;)

Wow I hadn't even heard about this, sure this game will be surprising with all the new stuff. It will make the next 7 days even more unbearable

Random Hero 22:34 09-22-2004

Originally Posted by SpifDK:

I also liked what I read about the new Virtue system. Apparently they will have an effect on the general’s speech at the start of each battle. If he’s a coward, he will for instance tell the troops that he will not participate directly in the battle, but only watch from a distance. Like in Medieval, killing a lot of prisoners and chasing down routing enemies will grant the general murderous tendencies, which will make for some very interesting speeches ;)

I really like the sounds of this

Pc Gamer US also had a review and gave it 92%, and seeing how they gave MTW an 82%, I wonder just how good RTW will be over MTW (hardcore gameplay i'm talking about, not just the flashy eyecandy but dont get me wrong, I love the eye candy

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