Total War: Rome II

Platforms

• PC

  Sep 3, 2013

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  7.9

  playscore

  7.9

  27 Critics

  8.1

  34.2K Players

27 critic reviews · 3 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  Game Front

  4.0

  But for now, it’s a bloated mess, and it’s unfair for the developers and publishers to take everyone’s money and then give them a game that has so many obvious problems. Maybe Creative Assembly and SEGA will learn a lesson. Maybe Total War fans will. Unfortunately, I’m not optimistic.

  Reviewed on PC
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  Destructoid

  7.5

  It is easy to imagine a point, perhaps soon, when most, if not all of the kinks have been patched out and the waiting times cut down, leaving players with Total War: Rome II its best: a game that can actually make good on claiming "epic" scale and delivering a truly grand strategic experience coupled with blockbuster production values and satisfying tactical challenges.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Game Trailers

  7.2

  ...it requires you to think beforehand about how units complement one another.

  Reviewed on PC
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  Hardcore Gamer

  9.0

  Armed with a new engine, Rome II looks great, plays smoothly, and will be a challenge to both veterans and novices. One of the most immersive strategy games available, you can easily get swept up in the narrative you write for yourself, scrawled in the blood of barbarians from one side of Europe to the other, experiencing triumph and disaster as you seek to reenact one of history’s greatest stories.

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  IGN

  8.8

  The setting and gameplay of Total War: Rome II are a perfect match, giving us some of the most satisfying and visually striking tactical battles we've ever seen in video games. The campaign systems are absorbing and full of meaningful decisions that make me feel like I’m in charge of my own victories and defeats.

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  Attack of the Fanboy

  6.0

  Rome 2 is indeed a Total War game and you will definitely find it one of the most enjoyable experiences you'll ever have in the series... In a few months from now when updates, patches and DLCs should have come out to fix the game. It has potential, but as it is now, it just feels incomplete and broken.

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  GameSpot

  8.0

  It really is a fantastic sequel and a great addition to an already remarkable series. For millennia, war has altered the face of the world in which we live. Men could earn their freedom, families could rise to or fall from power, and nations could leave their mark on history. It serves as the dramatic fuel for some of humanity's greatest stories, both fictional and real. Total War: Rome II brings that drama back in a great way.

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  Game Informer

  8.0

  The age-old problems that have plagued Total War since its inception, which were mitigated with such great skill in the last game, return with a vengeance. As much fun as the battles often are, I never feel like I’m masterminding the rise of an empire against all odds – and that lack keeps any grand strategy game from realizing its full potential.

  Reviewed on PC
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  The Escapist

  8.0

  Ultimately, the rest of the game is well worth working through these issues, but it's disappointing that they keep the game from being the masterpiece that it could be. Like a grizzled veteran of countless battles, Total War: Rome II is still set in its ways, for better or worse. Technical issues aside, seeing your massive armies clash is still a joy to behold.

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  Edge

  7.0

  It’s big and beautiful, but it’s also too swollen, too slow, and too buggy to sustain its lofty ambition...

  Reviewed on PC

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