The Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Rome 2 Emperor Edition, a free update for the swords-and-sandals strategy game that bundles all the free DLC content already released, along with various gameplay enhancements and a whole new singleplayer campaign.
Along with the new content players can apparently expect a reworked politics system, new building chains, improved battle AI, and various visual tweaks and upgrades.
This is more like it, Creative Assembly. As far as I’m concerned, Rome 2 was a bloated, awkward, chugging mess of ill-thought-out systems, awful technical performance and terrible AI. It had moments in which you were reminded what CA can do at their best, but they were very, very far between. We’ll have to wait and see if the new Emperor Edition fixes the many problems with the game, but it’s free to PC and Mac owners, so that’s a good start.
The new campaign, ‘Imperator Augustus’, focuses on the civil war that broke out between Octavian, Marc Antony and Marcus Lepidus for control of the Roman Empire after Julius Caesar’s death. Sounds like a good opportunity to test out that improved political system.
There’s no release date set for the Rome 2 Emperor Edition, but a Beta is on the way.
