MSI GT70 2OC Gaming Notebook

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell December 4, 2013 Highlights-new, Laptop / Mobile

Total War ROME 2 is the eighth stand alone game in the Total War series, it is the successor to the successful Rome: Total War title. The Warscape Engine powers the visuals of the game and the new unit cameras will allow players to focus on individual soldiers on the battlefield, which in itself may contain thousands of combatants at a time.

Creative Assembly has stated that they wish to bring out the more human side of war this way, with soldiers reacting with horror as their comrades get killed around them and officers inspiring their men with heroic speeches before siege towers hit the walls of the enemy city. This will be realised using facial animations for individual units, adding a feel of horror and realism to the battles.

We set the graphics to 1080p with the ULTRA preset, offering high image quality settings.

Performance was smooth for the most part, although a few of the intensive battles would drop the engine to just below the sweet spot of 25 frames per second. I could live with it, but some people might need to lower the image quality settings to ‘very high'.