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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 718 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 499 Views
I LOVE Medieval II: Total War!!! Darth_Katie - 13/11/2009 07:24:23 PM 438 Views
Rome is good, although a little weird historically speaking. Ghavrel - 14/11/2009 01:58:18 AM 471 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 243 Views
I know why they did it. It's also a complete fabrication. Ghavrel - 14/11/2009 08:59:53 PM 442 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 239 Views
Which is why I suggested the free Europa Barbarorum mod. *NM* Ghavrel - 16/11/2009 01:22:54 AM 245 Views
Ah, yes. Got sidetracked. *NM* Bergioyn - 16/11/2009 02:19:04 PM 225 Views
No worries. Helped me review for my classes. *NM* Ghavrel - 17/11/2009 03:02:29 AM 211 Views
The first one was Shogun, right? Panorphaeon - 15/11/2009 04:16:23 PM 421 Views
Yes. Werthead - 15/11/2009 05:40:07 PM 560 Views
You forgot Alexander. It was second expansion to Rome. Bergioyn - 15/11/2009 06:01:33 PM 425 Views
Oh yeah, and the Warpath expansion for Empire as well. *NM* Werthead - 15/11/2009 06:10:23 PM 217 Views
Check out the Middle-earth and Westeros mods for Medieval II. Werthead - 15/11/2009 05:43:03 PM 645 Views
Wha wha wha wha THAT'S AWESOME! *NM* Darth_Katie - 15/11/2009 06:06:44 PM 268 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 431 Views
Finally done as of about 8:30 this morning! Mats imaginary friend - 16/11/2009 08:21:24 PM 458 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 497 Views
Like what? Mats imaginary friend - 16/11/2009 03:52:54 AM 448 Views
I heard its anti-piracy software messes with the owner's computer. *NM* Tom - 16/11/2009 02:23:43 PM 265 Views
It's bugged to hell and back. Werthead - 20/11/2009 12:51:40 AM 462 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 400 Views
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