Total War: Rome II - Emperor Edition App Reviews

My Mac has more than the minimum requirements to run the game, but just as everyone else has noted, the graphics make it impossible to play. As soon as the opening battle begins the graphics glitch out to random colors. I have tried to adjust all of my settings, and even resorted to researching it on the internet, but it does not function any way around. The intro ran decently well, so it looked promising; I was disappointed. What a waste of my money. I do not encourage anyone to download until you are certain they have updated the program to a working version.

For whatever reason, updates, and online multiplayer is not supported through Apple’s site, and since downloading it here gives no CD key, apart from the occasional minor update, and solo play, you get nothing more. If you purchase it through Steam, you can update the game, play online, download new features, and all that good stuff, with this version through Apple, there’s is no option for that, and without a CD key, none possible.

It is a pretty amazing game, but it need dlc’s, because i want to play as sparta so bad.

i cant use my keyboard in game.. why is this?

Loved the first iteration of this game, Rome, Total War. But this version is unplayable: graphics/play in all modes are extraordinarily, frustratingly slow. And I’m running it on a brand new Macbook Pro laptop with a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, and Intel Iris 1536 MB. Something’s wrong with it. I spent time messing with the graphics quality, from worst to best, and nothing resolved the problem. After some searching around, I haven’t found any advice to help resolve the problem. And frankly, if you’re going to sell a game for this much money, you should have the expectation that you can start the game and actually play it, not hunt around the web searching for a fix. At this point, I’m chalking it up as a loss. Super dissapointing.

So the game has been working great for me. The only problem is that once I get to a certain part of the prologue, my mouse just disappears and I can’t do anything. Its a shame becuase if I could finish the prologue then I could have a better handle on the game. I hope they fix it, otherwise it runs seemlessly on my new iMac so no complaint there. Please fix the prologue!!!

ive download this game 3 different times, 3 different internet connections, and everytime it fully downloads but when i run it the screen just goes white and stays white even though the audio in the game seems to be working. Don’t buy, wasted my money.

the same thing is happening to me as congregation 4. wont let me play as marc antony

I purchased this game on 28JAN. After playing it for 2 days, I still can not figure out how to play it since the GUI is so complicated. If you wanna to raise army you must have a general for each group. The game asks me to conquer more land to gain more generals for my army but I am stuck at 6 generals only. And I really don’t know how to have more. So if you really have a lot of time, this game is for you.

can’t even play its to slow, and i have the requirements, how can i make it run smooth??

I have twice the computing power recommended to run the game yet I cannot even get to the menu screen without the game crashing. This needs to be fixed immediately. I didnt pay $60 so my computer could lose 18 gigs of memory.

Every other way to get this game it allows DLC’s Ful accsess to Muliplayer but apple store dosn’t… You’d think if you pay full price for a game you’d get full credit of THAT GAME. I think many agree with me when they say that getting this game was a wast of money and time. It’d be nice if I could atlest get this game and then get the DLCs on STEAM or some other website but no; you completly prohibate the acsess to DLCs. If I knew I was paying full price for half the game I would have NEVER gotten it from the Apple store.

Total War games have always had great gameplay and relatively simple to learn controls. This game is no different. It runs smoothly on my 2012 Macbook Pro with 4 gb of RAM. There are some minor audio issues at times, but that does not hurt the experience. The only addition this game needs is a multiplayer, or at least LAN battle capabilities. That was my favorite part of Rome I. If that is ever incorporated into the game, this will become the best Total War game out.

The UI is horribly done and buggy beyond belief. After a playing for a few hours the camera in the Campaign mode stopped working (a known problem dating back to 2013). I spent an hour searching for a workaround and implementing it only to have the problem came back within 2 minutes. Either wait until they fix this issue or go with one of the older games.

I am a huge fan of the Totar War series. I have had every one of them except for Shogun. I play this one on my MacAir usually when travelling and I have found it more complicated than it needs to be. However, my main gripe is for a different reason than a previous reviewer. The gameplay is ok but the graphics are poor, by that I mean confusing. In particular, the map. It is too detailed and makes little sense. It is buggy in that it sometimes it changes the angle in which you see things which makes everything complicated. Something about it is just not right. It is as though the designers tried too hard to upgrade it and lost the simplicity it requires. The best things in life are simple but not shallow… unfortunately this is not simple and although there is lots of depth to it, I end up playing it very simply just to be able to enjoy it. Total War as a series is brilliant and the first Rome was an absolute classic. This version however, fails in that you are too busy working out HOW to play the game, to enjoy actually playing it.

i cant even play this game there a lot of problem when i get on the game i can’t see nothing just water everywhere

I cant even get it to open! It just show a little black screen that says the title of the game and then disaperes. I payed 60 dollars for nothing. :(

started downloading and now is paused and wont finish.

This product is a morass of unfinished fragments. It just does not work. It is excruciatingly counter-intuitive and WAY overly complex. It amazes me that this software was released in the unfinished condition it is in. I am a computer systems programmer by trade. I would expect to be fired, outright, for turning in such a poor quality product as this. Let me give you a clue, designers. You have to move troops. Provide a menu or means to do so, not cameras, not encyclopaedias, not game support. You have to move troops, provide the means to do it when and where it is needed. Don’t hit me with a lot of “informative” tutorials that explain nothing.

I find it a bit confounding that some reviewers find this game complex. This is a military simulation game, it is not a first person shooter, and it is not MMORPG. The unit commands are simple for armies of the past: move, form a line, charge, withdraw, reform or defend. Learning to play this game is no different than learning to play chess. If one is to argue that this is a complex game, then one has to similarly argue that chess is complex, and to be certain, for some, it may very well be. So by calling this game complex and posting bad reviews, one is being disingenuous. One needs to spend time learning battlefield tactics and campaign strategies. And…battlefield tactics and campagin strategies stem from experience, and in some (or many) cases, being student of history. However, having said this. The game suffers from stability and performance issues. Often there are drawing artifacts, which hinder the user from implementing battlefield tactics. On low-end IG GPUs (e.g., MacBook Air) you often sacrifice assest quality for performance. However, for discrete AMD GPUs in MacPros, or newer iMacs, there should’ve been better balance between asset quality and performance. For example with their high-quality textures, when textures are bound to the assets, the asset details still look 2D (bump maps vs. tessellation?).