Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Rome: Total War

Buy Rome: Total WarIn what must surely be the gaming best news since this Rome: Total War (PC) gets it's UK release on Friday October 1st. Since I first saw the new engine on Time Commanders it was a must buy for me. I've always been a fan of the Total War series but is the first time they've used true 3D graphics for the battles and it looks gorgeous. Did I mention it's also got Romans in?

It's getting very good reviews (IGN 9.4, Gamespot 9.1), the demo is fantastic and I will officially be disappearing from New Links posting duties from Friday evening and I may be gone for some time! ;)

12 comments:

mmChronic said...

I concur. ;)

mmChronic said...

6 cd's of diskspace for an FPS? When we can play umpteen other games that only take a couple of hundred mb.

Oh and you're not fast enough for hosting apparently.

Unknown said...

mani played thier other game for lijke days abd it was fantastic.

heartuily reccommnede/...sorrry bitp iseed.

mmChronic said...

Well duh! Of course your connection speed.

And the idea of a public server was to allow more than 2 people. Don't forget being on cable you've only got an ickle speed upstream.

I'm still not installing UT2K4 for what will be a very occasional game. I'm still voting for Enemy Territory - everyone's machine is capable of running it, everyone has it (or can get it legally for free) and there are loads of public servers.

mmChronic said...

Fsck me! I'll have a pint of what Flip's drinking please! ;)

bungers said...

Flip really is pissed! w00+!

mmChronic said...

Because when you get arrested for animal pr0n there's no record of any conenction from us to you.

OK lets cut this one dead. I haven't got UT2K4. Fact. To do what you want I'm going to have to either buy a game I don't want or download 6 cds worth of FPS. It is not going to happen. Nobody exept you wants to play UT - or I've missed the 'me, me!' comments if they do.

Right - do you want to play Enemyy Territory or not?

mmChronic said...

Oh and for you to have 256 up one of the following HAS to be true:

A) you've switched to ADSL.
B) are planning on playing from work.
C) have upgraded your BY package.
D) you are talking out of your arse - for a change.

We have 128 up.

mmChronic said...

He has the 750 (BY's name for it) service - which was the 512 that got the free u/g to 768. Up speeds stayed the same so it's still at 128.

So if he reckoned he can host 2-6 UT2K4 players adequately he will now have to revise that to 1-3. Bit of a shite multiplay then.

mmChronic said...

I missed the comment where Dogs suggested he host and we play any game. I can only see the ones where Dogs says he will host UT2K4.

If you (or Merg) want to try hosting that's fine by me - so what are we playing?

mmChronic said...

We could always play mp freeciv. Even Bungers' machine should be able to keep up with that! ;)

You need a few players for ET as well by the look of it to get the best out of it. I don't know if I've played CoD.

My vote could well have changed to R:TW by Friday night though! :)

I think this one is probably best resolved offsite so we can arrange game, servers, time etc.

Anonymous said...

Nah, def not into MP strat games -- I know I'll get whipped from the start, soo... :)

In an FPS with reasonably lethal weapons (read: not the Quake or Tribes games) I can usually do okay.

Quake/Tribes type stuff is akin to the strat stuff... don't play enough to be remotely good, and the weapons aren't deadly enough that sneaking up on people works.

Yes, I DO shoot people in the back -- best way! ;)