If you want a more realistic look to your campaign map as well, you can simply toggle it in the graphics settings (though it's a shame you can't change resolution or window-type unless you're in the main menu). Army models seemingly got an upgrade too, with each campaign sprite looking more detailed than I remember. The roads, mountains, forests - all highlights making the hours I spent staring at this map less of a chore than the old paper maps of the early games. Water has a beautiful shade of blue, looking almost painterly at times. That map has been beautifully remastered with more detail, with the snowy winter areas looking particularly good, such as Gaul or Germania. However, Rome: Total War added the realism I always wanted out of the series. This was the first total war to have a full 3D, detailed map like this - Medieval: Total War and Shogun: Total War before it were simply handdrawn maps on paper, acting like the campaign board in a general's tent. Moving your diplomats, armies and other agents is a treat as you get to explore more of Rome's beautifully remastered campaign map. I had gotten so used to the new way Total War handles diplomacy, though as my play through campaigns went on, I found myself yearning for this style of gameplay once again. This, admittedly, took some getting used to as I forgot I even had diplomats to use. No longer can you just open the diplomacy screen, click a name and start trading, now you have to put in the literal legwork to, well, make your terms work. One of the major features that will take some getting used to if you've only played the more recent Total War installments is the need to physically send diplomats to your enemies and allies in order to, well, engage in diplomacy.
However, the gameplay that made Rome so addicting is still there on display, acting as a time capsule back into Total War's past. The visuals have been improved with higher quality textures across the board, the UI has seen a makeover to make it a bit more clean than its 2004 predecessor, and agents got some much needed love by Feral, the team behind the work. Reshaping The RepublicĪt its core, Total War: Rome Remastered is a faithful remaster of the original Rome: Total War. This remastered version of one of Total War's best installments brings the original gameplay back, with some interesting quality of life improvements to the UI, though it does show, in stark detail really, how much the series has evolved since 2004. So it's fitting that, while I'm re-listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, Death Throes of the Republic, watching HBO's Rome and digesting the words of Caesar himself in his autobiographical The Civil War, Total War: Rome Remastered gets released.
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