Recent reviews by FizzyWizzy

Total War: Rome Remastered is the best way to experience classic Total War. I'd recommend it to both new and returning players, but fans of modern Total War games shouldn't expect the same experience. Fans of modern Total War might enjoy Rome II more, if they want to play in this time period.

Rome: Total War was a fantastic strategy game. I find that its battles feel better and are much less visually confusing than in later games. The remaster looks great, runs well, and has some big improvements that don't change the feel of the original game. Plus, you can enable or disable most changes whenever you're starting a campaign (I play with the original population system and no merchants, otherwise remastered). The recent update (in open beta) came as a surprise to me. It's great that the devs are responding to people's initial criticisms and the interface is already being improved.

The original Rome's main weaknesses were its bad history, a.i., and pathing. The badly ahistorical factions, though, work well in gameplay and I greatly prefer them to Rome II's. The remastered a.i. is noticeably better. I wouldn't call the a.i. great, but on higher difficulties it provides a decent challenge and will sometimes beat you when you don't expect. Pathing remains as the biggest issue in the remaster. There have been some changes to it, but it still has issues like dogs not pathing around architecture and dog handlers automatically trying to attack whatever the dogs are attacking.

Rome Total War was a classic that barely runs on modern machines, when it runs at all. This remaster does it justice and gives the player control over what improvements they use. This should be the standard for how to make a remaster because it doesn't compromise between authenticity for old fans and modernization for new players.

Better than Elder Scrolls 6.