Before continuing, let us say this – take those screenshots with a grain of salt. There is a reason we’ve marked this post as a rumor, so let’s continue now, shall we? So, a couple of minutes ago, one of our readers – one we trust as he has informed us in the past about various leaks – sent us the following images, claiming to be from Creative Assembly’s upcoming Alien game called Alien: Isolation. [Ninja Edit: NeoGAF seems to hint toward that too, so this could be the real deal] Enjoy! Continue reading Rumor Alert – First Screenshots From Alien: Isolation→
SEGA and Creative Assembly announced Caesar in Gaul; the first campaign expansion for ROME II that brings Caesar’s Gallic war to life in thrilling detail. Offering a tighter scope in terms of time and geography than ROME II, the Caesar in Gaul campaign map offers an expanded, more detailed vision of Gaul and the south coast of Britannia. Continue reading Total War: ROME II – “Caesar in Gaul” Expansion Coming On December 12th→
Creative Assembly has released the third beta update for its strategy title, Total War: Rome 2. According to its changelog, this patch bring significant improvements to multiplayer campaign speed, Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map on low spec Core2 Duo cpu’s in windowed mode, as well as Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map across all configurations when setting Effects Quality to Low or High. In order to download this update, you need to apply for the game’s beta update program. You can view the complete changelog below. Continue reading Total War: Rome 2 – Third Beta Update Now Available, Comes With Another 100 Fixes→
As promised, Creative Assembly has released the second beta patch for its newly released strategy title, Total War: Rome II. According to its release notes, this patch comes with some Campaign performance optimisations, improvements on the campaign’s AI round time, pathfinding optimisations for its campaign mode and more conservative out-of-the-box graphics settings and resolution for DirectX 10 and 11 on Mobile GPUs. This patch will can be downloaded once you apply for the game’s beta update phase, and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Total War: Rome II – Beta Patch 2 Available, Contains 100 Fixes→
Creative Assembly’s Creative Director, Mike Simpson, admitted today that Total War: Rome II’s release has not gone as planned and that the team is working hard on fixing this mess. Creative Assembly has also released a hotfix that significantly improves campaign map frame-rate on a variety of hardware combinations, meaning that most people will finally be able to at least play this newly released strategy title. Continue reading Creative Assembly Admits Total War: Rome II’s Problems, Releases Hotfix That Improves Map Framerates→
Our dear friends over at PCGamesHardware have created an interesting comparison between the alpha and the retail version of Total War: Rome II. As we can clearly see, the alpha version had a specific color grading effect that is missing from the retail version. Not only that, but the whole lighting system seems better in the alpha version. To be honest, the retail version feels a bit bland in some scenes, so we don’t know what had gone wrong with it. HDR and bloom effects also seem better enhanced in the alpha version. Moreover, it comes as no surprise that the first set of screenshots for Rome 2 were bullcraps (in short, photoshopped) and nothing more. Enjoy the video below! Continue reading Total War: Rome 2 – Alpha versus Retail Video Comparison→
Creative Assembly announced that it will release the first update for Total War: Rome II this Friday. According to the team, the variety of hardware and general system specifications can cause issues for some people and it is urgently working to help get them the right experience. The team aims to tweak the balancing, AI routines and other features now that it is getting real-time metric feedback from thousands of players. Continue reading Total War: Rome II – First Update Coming This Friday→
The Creative Assembly has released a new let’s play video in which Studio Communications Manager Al Bickham’s Macedonian forces take on the might of Rome in a straight-up, open terrain skirmish match. In addition, Creative Assembly revealed that owners of Total War: ROME II will receive privileged access to the company’s F2P title Total War: ARENA when it becomes available. Continue reading Total War: Rome II Gets New Gameplay Video, Offers Privileged Access To Total War: ARENA→
