They've had years to get their audiences used to more features, more nuance, more depth. These kinds of games seem much more complicated today.
It's really nice not to have to figure out the winning formula again. But it's still unmistakably what it once was, that game I remember, and there's something so unbelievably comforting in going back. Availability: Out 29th April on Steam (and half-price if you own the old game)Īnd now it's back! Back as Total War: Rome - Remastered, and smartened up for 2021, with some new graphical effects, higher definition this and that, bigger resolutions, gameplay improvements, and (probably most importantly) more factions than ever to try and win as.Developer: Feral Interactive, Creative Assembly.