Total War: ROME II

How far will you go for Rome?

Will you suffer betrayal or will you be the first to turn on old friends? Will you fight to save the Republic, or plot to rule alone as Emperor?

Players may embark on a new Campaign as one of the following playable factions:

• Marc Antony

• Lepidus

• Octavian

• Pompey

• Iceni

• Marcomanni

• Dacia

• Egypt

• Parthia

• Armenia (also now playable in the ROME II Grand Campaign)

✢ Plan your conquest of the known world in a massive sandbox turn-based campaign mode (supporting additional 2-player cooperative & competitive modes). Conspiracies, politics, intrigue, revolts, loyalty, honour, ambition, betrayal. Your decisions will write your own story.

✢ Build vast armies and take to the battlefield in real-time combat mode. Put your tactical skills to the test as you directly control tens of thousands of men clashing in epic land and sea battles.

✢ Play for the glory of Rome as one of three families or take command of a huge variety of rival civilisations – each offers a notably different form of gameplay experience with hundreds of unique units from siege engines and heavy cavalry to steel-plated legionaries and barbarian berserkers.

✢ See exotic ancient cities and colossal armies rendered in incredible detail, as jaw-dropping battles unfold. Detailed camera perspectives allow you to see your men shout in victory or scream in pain on the frontline, while a new tactical cam allows a god’s eye view of the carnage to better inform your strategic decisions.

✢ Extremely scalable experience, with gameplay and graphics performance optimised to match low and high-end hardware alike.

Abouyt the Imperator Augustus Campaign Pack

The Imperator Augustus Campaign Pack is a new playable campaign for ROME II, which rivals the original ROME II Grand Campaign in both scope and scale. This campaign comes as part of Total War™: ROME II – Emperor Edition and is available as a free, automatic update to existing owners of Total War™: ROME II.
The Imperator Augustus Campaign Pack is set in 42 BC during the chaotic aftermath of Caesar’s grisly murder. The republic remains whole, but its soul is divided as three great men, the members of the Second Triumvirate, hold the future of Rome in the palms of their hands.

Octavian, Caesar’s adoptive son and the heir to his legacy.

Marc Antony, Caesar’s loyal friend and most trusted lieutenant.

Lepidus, Pontifex Maximus of Rome and the man who secured Caesar’s dictatorship.

With the territories of The Republic divided between them and the military might of Rome at their beck-and-call, the members of The Second Triumvirate are each in a position to make a bid for leadership, and rule Rome as its first – and only – emperor.

However, external forces are on the move, looking to exploit the instability of Rome and expand their own territories. Will you fight as a defender of Rome and defeat the other members of the Triumvirate? Or lead another faction on a campaign of conquest and expansion, and take advantage of the chaos as the Roman civil war rages?

The developers describe the content like this:

There are frequent depictions of realistic looking violence towards human characters and sometimes animal characters. The player can command and attack many different types of military units against A.I. controlled characters. The player issues orders that influence the actions that these units carry out. When the player plays a real-time battle they will witness combat animations with swords, axes, spears, arrows and some missile units.

• OS:
Minimum: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
Recommended: Windows 7 / Windows 8

• CPU:
Minimum: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
Recommended: 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)

• RAM:
Minimum: 2GB RAM
Recommended: 4GB RAM

• Graphics:
Minimum: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support)
Recommended: 1024 MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card

• DirectX®:
Minimum: 9.0c
Recommended: 11

• Storage:
Minimum: 35 GB HD space
Recommended: 35 GB HD space

• Network:
Minimum: Broadband Internet connection (for multiplayer)
Recommended: Broadband Internet connection (for multiplayer)

• Additional Notes:
Minimum: Screen Resolution - 1024x768
Recommended: Screen Resolution - 1920x1080