Recent reviews by Beast

So this is where Fallout 4's graphics budget went.

A great game by itself with hundreds of hours of content while looking beautiful. However, mods add hundreds more hours of content, new amazing looking armor, and dozens of new locations and activities with engaging quests. All of these mods can be found in the steam workshop and are free!! This game is a must own for all gamers.

A great remake to an already great game. It is atmospheric, tense and abosolutetly amazing. It is a must own for PC owners. Don't forget to read the book this game was based on. The book is very well written with many events in it that the game does not include such as a worm worshipping cult of cannibals who kidnap children. Overall i would give the game a 9.5/10

A great fps with an amazing story and some of the best graphics on the market. It has a great story told from the perpective of the Russian citizens in Moscow rather than your big shot hero American soldier that could take out an army with a single shot. This is a fresh perpective for video games.

One of the best and most underrated strategy games out there along with blitzkrieg.

The best World War 2 shooter out there and the most realistic. It has a great multiplayer with unique classes that play differently. The game also has amazing graphics despite being out for four years. This is a shooter for everybody!!!!

AMAZING EFFECTS, MAJOR BATTLES ARE INTENSE!!!!

I gave Gaben all my money and he gives me battlescared famas colonies, a lot of them. He gives me so many that i buy more cases and get more battlescared famas colonies. I get them until i have money to open just one more case. I open it and it begins to slow down onto a knife skin but speeds up suddenly and lands on a battlescared famas colony.

10/10 would break my computer again!

This game is still good after so many years (I have roughly 300 hours in total outside of steam).

This game is definitly not perfect but is a definite step up from the original launch. There are still some bugs such as ships traveling through land and siege engines being stuck in the open. The AI can sometimes keep moving it's units back and forth until you attack but i have noticed that with all the total war titles.

The AI is much better on the campaign map and will hide its units for an ambush or fortify defensible areas against attack. It is very aggresive and will show no mercy against newly captured and unguarded cities. ALWAYS destroy all enemy armies before advancing. The AI on the battlefield is not as bright as on the campaign map but will always hammer your archers with a cavalry charge from the back even if it means scuicide. It will also attempt to surround you and try to outflank you instead of a head-on assault.

The graphics are very well done with a couple of odd textures. The units move smoothly and are visibly tired and will run much slower if tired. Siege battles are well done with one walled city to a province and 1-3 unwalled towns within the province. It provides a good balanced between sieges and assaults; although most of the major battles will take place in the major cities.

Units are varied very well between each faction but wiht the same style of units per culture or related factions. Each unit types has major advantages and disadvantages: the spartan hopolites and pikeman for example, are superb against cavalry and frontal assaults, but are tightly packed and vulnerable from flanking, archers, or siege weapons.

the tech system is completely different from any other total war and is not the best. It splits into two parts: civil, and military. The trees are poorly done and are not deep at all. there are usually only 2 braches per section. If you like the family systems and ruler systems you had in previous total war games, you will be disappointed. There are no families or even rulers, it is all about holding political power among your faction. Having your balance of power too low or too high will result in a civil war and many army stacks appearing at your capital. You have gravitas and gerontens. It is pretty confusing at the start but once you get the feel for it it becomes easier.

Overview: Rome 2 is a huge step up from the original launch and has a very well done AI. There is a great balance between walled cities and small villages and unit types are very well done with weaknesses and strengths. The political are tech systems need a total makeover but could work in the future.


80/100
Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day.