"Exclusive first look at the future of Total War" - July 6/7th

[Zarniwoop]

As a Total War fan more than an RPG fan I'm quite excited for ROME 2. I find the Total War series far superior than Most other strategy games due to the tactical nature of battles and less pressure for overland strategy like say, Crusader Kings. Formulating grand strategies against terrible AI (you have to treat the entire map as enemies, you can't even make solid alliances no matter how hard you try, and I have tried and tried) is rather burdensome.

I've never played Shogun 2 so I don't know if they've improved the AI since the abysmal Medieval 2.

Shogun 2 is probably the best in the series. Although the campaign AI still isn't great. And at some point in the main campaign the entire map WILL be your enemies. Once you control enough provinces or eliminate enough factions, the shogun gets all butthurt and everyone declares all-out war on you, even your close allies who you had great relations with. It's similar to what happens in Civ if you use a nuke. Then of course your economy tanks since you instantly lose all trading partners etc. Pretty stupid mechanic actually.

 

[Quetzacoatl]

The idea of the mechanic is to prevent the game from getting to easy in it's later stages. It's a good idea but could have had a better execution.