This or Rome 2?

[♛ Xenon-]

Planning to buy this to play ONLY Medieval Kingdoms. Is it worth it? Or should I stay at Rome 2?

[DarthCheesecake]

Both games have their positives and negatives. Atilla probably has sharper gameplay. But it's a hell of a lot less stable.

[Yews]

Buy this only to play Medieval Kingdoms? Don’t bother.

[Solon]

This and what DarthCheesecake said.

[Charles]

I think its like $12 right now, so its reasonable to pick it up. You could maybe get it even cheaper if you wait a long time. As far as base game play goes, I think Rome 2 is more interesting in terms of the setting. There is more variety in it and I prefer its vanilla setting to that of Attila. They are both good so I would say grab whatever one peeks your interest more and slap the other one on your wishlist so you can get it dirt cheap latter.

[Seduce Me]

I like attila a bit more, both games are amazing, if you like empire building, i think you'd like rome more, this one is about the collapse of rome, thus its pretty hard to hold a large empire, but it is incredibly rewarding, the feeling i got when i survied the huns (not even defeated them) is unmatched by anything in rome.

Of course there's the modding scene which i think attila wins by far.

[Hark]

Originally posted by Yews:

Buy this only to play Medieval Kingdoms? Don’t bother.

[Vanni]

I prefer rome 2 honestly, talking to its vanilla gameplay compared to attilas. But, as someone said before, Attila has the medieval kingdoms mod, probably the best mod ever made for a total war game, if you want to play it go for attila then. How about getting both of them tho

[Cold Stoned Steven]

Depends on if you prefer a grimmer, darker dark age atmosphere or a more classical era atmosphere. IF you want to be Rome at it's peak, play Rome 2, if you wanna play Rome at it's fall and the various nomadic groups then play Attila.

I prefer Attila's setting but Rome 2 runs better. Attila's annoyances are rampaging barbarians razing stuff everywhere, performance and crappy pathfinding for ultra unit size in settlements/sieges, whereas Rome 2's headache is the overly general / agent upgrade trees. Both games have some cool mods though.

[Hark]

IMHO, vanilla Attila smokes vanilla Rome 2. It's not even a question in my mind, the difference is obvious; Attila is a serious game and Rome 2 is like Baby's First Total War.

Age of Charlemagne is the best campaign in the historical TW series, when considering the state of the game series at this point in time, and how titles age particularly in areas like QoL features. So, to only go in for Attila because of some mod seems ridiculous to me, but that's just personal opinion.

The simple fact is that Rome 2 has a well-known setting compared to late antiquity/early middle ages, and that is what hard carries that game's popularity over Attila's.

The only thing I can objectively say I consider better about Rome 2 is the client stability and performance is better than Attila.

I 100% think that as soon as that team of CA developers finished Rome 2, immediately afterwards they were like, "ok so since that is over with and we've come to fully understand this engine, now we're going to create a proper game now with it" and that's how Attila came to be.

[Cabbage]

Can you guys not read or what. He said he only wants to play Medieval Kingdoms. So is Attila worth it for the 1212 mod? I would say yes, personally. Although Rome 2 has the 1100 mod which is decent enough if you already own it.

[Dykastis]

For better Graphics Choose Rome 2

[2GenL]

Attilia for 1212AD yes
Rome 2 for rome stuff

[Preacher]

Attila battle UI is arcadey and ugly

[Yews]

The UI is ugly on purpose because the era where the game takes place was really grim. In that sense the UI is brilliant. Not literally but because of the era-appropriateness. As for the arcadey part, what on earth do you expect of a video game? PowerPoint graph style UI?

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Yews:

The UI is ugly on purpose because the era where the game takes place was really grim. In that sense the UI is brilliant. Not literally but because of the era-appropriateness. As for the arcadey part, what on earth do you expect of a video game? PowerPoint graph style UI?

Are you dense? I'm preferring to the unit icons