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It's bugged to hell and back. Werthead Send a noteboard - 20/11/2009 12:51:40 AM
I was thinking about buying it or asking for it for xmas, so if it's not that great I might abstain. I haven't really heard anything about it at this point since I just discovered the games a short time ago.


The game is riven with bugs, incompatibilities with certain common software/hardware cominations and is very memory-intensive. It also uses Steam for authentication, which I don't have a problem with but a lot of people dislike (especially as you have to have Steam running in the background, which takes up more memory).

Some of these problems have been eased with patches, but a lot of fans are still having problems and can't play the game properly. They were waiting for the big expansion, which is usually when the bugs get fixed (KINGDOMS fixed most of the major bugs in MEDIEVAL II and BARBARIAN INVASION did the same for ROME, for example), but then went apopleptic when the Creative Assembly revealed that there wouldn't be a big new expansion for the game, only a crappy little download thing (WARPATH) which didn't go down too well.

Now CA seem to have switched their focus and energy to the new game, NAPOLEON: TOTAL WAR, and left EMPIRE in its buggy and crappy state, although apparently another patch should be coming early next year.
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Total War Mats imaginary friend - 13/11/2009 09:30:10 AM 722 Views
Rome Total War was awesome (although the city managment got a bit bloated after a while) beetnemesis - 13/11/2009 04:23:40 PM 508 Views
I LOVE Medieval II: Total War!!! Darth_Katie - 13/11/2009 07:24:23 PM 444 Views
Rome is good, although a little weird historically speaking. Ghavrel - 14/11/2009 01:58:18 AM 478 Views
The factions are there to make civil war possible when you try to get crowned Imperator. *NM* Bergioyn - 14/11/2009 08:20:54 AM 245 Views
I know why they did it. It's also a complete fabrication. Ghavrel - 14/11/2009 08:59:53 PM 450 Views
That may be so, but not many people know that much about history, --> customers don't care. *NM* Bergioyn - 15/11/2009 09:35:51 AM 241 Views
Which is why I suggested the free Europa Barbarorum mod. *NM* Ghavrel - 16/11/2009 01:22:54 AM 248 Views
Ah, yes. Got sidetracked. *NM* Bergioyn - 16/11/2009 02:19:04 PM 227 Views
No worries. Helped me review for my classes. *NM* Ghavrel - 17/11/2009 03:02:29 AM 214 Views
The first one was Shogun, right? Panorphaeon - 15/11/2009 04:16:23 PM 428 Views
Yes. Werthead - 15/11/2009 05:40:07 PM 569 Views
You forgot Alexander. It was second expansion to Rome. Bergioyn - 15/11/2009 06:01:33 PM 432 Views
Oh yeah, and the Warpath expansion for Empire as well. *NM* Werthead - 15/11/2009 06:10:23 PM 221 Views
Check out the Middle-earth and Westeros mods for Medieval II. Werthead - 15/11/2009 05:43:03 PM 652 Views
Wha wha wha wha THAT'S AWESOME! *NM* Darth_Katie - 15/11/2009 06:06:44 PM 272 Views
Thanks for the tip off! I'm downloading the Middle-Earth mod right now. Mats imaginary friend - 16/11/2009 03:54:12 AM 438 Views
Finally done as of about 8:30 this morning! Mats imaginary friend - 16/11/2009 08:21:24 PM 464 Views
There's nothing quite as fun as riding down fleeing troops with a wave of cavalry. Tom - 16/11/2009 03:23:38 AM 505 Views
Like what? Mats imaginary friend - 16/11/2009 03:52:54 AM 458 Views
I heard its anti-piracy software messes with the owner's computer. *NM* Tom - 16/11/2009 02:23:43 PM 267 Views
It's bugged to hell and back. Werthead - 20/11/2009 12:51:40 AM 470 Views
I hum the Benny Hill theme every single time I do that. I'm a bad human being. Ghavrel - 16/11/2009 08:44:40 AM 409 Views
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