No longer can you just open the diplomacy screen, click a name and start trading, now you have to put in the literal legwork to, well, make your terms work. One of the major features that will take some getting used to if you've only played the more recent Total War installments is the need to physically send diplomats to your enemies and allies in order to, well, engage in diplomacy. However, the gameplay that made Rome so addicting is still there on display, acting as a time capsule back into Total War's past. The visuals have been improved with higher quality textures across the board, the UI has seen a makeover to make it a bit more clean than its 2004 predecessor, and agents got some much needed love by Feral, the team behind the work.
Reshaping The RepublicĪt its core, Total War: Rome Remastered is a faithful remaster of the original Rome: Total War.
This remastered version of one of Total War's best installments brings the original gameplay back, with some interesting quality of life improvements to the UI, though it does show, in stark detail really, how much the series has evolved since 2004. So it's fitting that, while I'm re-listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, Death Throes of the Republic, watching HBO's Rome and digesting the words of Caesar himself in his autobiographical The Civil War, Total War: Rome Remastered gets released.
