Total War: Rome 2
Total War: Rome 2 is a PC role-playing game developed by Creative Assembly. It centers on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.3 / 10
About this game
Total War: Rome 2 is a PC role-playing game centered on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Total War pairs turn-based empire management with real-time battles between large armies. Across historical settings and its Warhammer fantasy branch, the plans you make on the campaign map meet the practical demands of terrain, formations and morale.
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The free Emperor Edition update supports a substantial ancient-war simulation with lingering rough edges.
Rome II is compelling because the consequences of managing an empire eventually reach the battlefield. Provinces, diplomacy, and army decisions determine the forces available for expansion, while individual battles reshape the long campaign. Different factions provide considerable replay value, and the Augustus scenario gives the broad systems a more focused conflict. Detailed formations and layered sound make successful planning satisfying to watch. Political feedback and automatic battle resolution remain less transparent than they should be, so learning the game involves interpreting its systems as well as making strategic decisions. This assessment covers the PC release after the free Emperor Edition update in September 2014. It neither carries every original launch defect forward nor assumes later fixes: residual faults and substantial hardware demands still qualify an otherwise rewarding historical strategy game.
Strengths
- Connected strategy and tactics
- Impressive battlefield scale
Weaknesses
- Opaque political feedback
- Residual faults and hardware demands
Who it is for: History enthusiasts willing to learn long-term empire management.
Play notes: September 2014 updated base release; later paid campaigns and mods excluded.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Rich campaigns gain focus, with some opaque political feedback. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Strategy and tactics connect through several empire-building goals. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Scale, animation, and sound establish convincing battlefield presence. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The updated release is usable, with residual faults and demanding hardware needs. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Creative Assembly
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Release date
- 2013
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
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- Offline maximum players
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- Online minimum players
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- Online maximum players
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- Categories
- Strategy & Tactics · Primary genre
- Tags
- Main Story 20–50 HoursLong-term ProgressionFantasyWarLevel ProgressionThird Person3D GraphicsSolo-friendlyExplorationStory-drivenTurn-based Combat
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
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- Standalone
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- Age ratings
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- Play modes
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- Perspectives
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Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2013
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