Playing as the Western Roman Empire will see you take on pretty much every barbarian faction on your borders. The West is given to his youngest son, Honorius while the East is given to his oldest, Arcadius. Theodosius I, just before he dies, decrees that that the Roman Empire should be split between his two sons. The good people over at Creative Assembly had obviously just watched a rerun of Gladiator. How, then, would the developers go about earning back fan trust? Apparently the same way Attila did for the Huns, with the use of the sword, the spear, and a heck of a lot of fire. Let’s be honest here if you picked up Rome II at launch you know just how much of a disaster it was. Yet Rome II failed to live up to fan expectations. Rome II was meant to be the title that would give fans everything they wanted from the first Rome while being updated with features that made Shogun II such a fan favourite. Attila: Total War drops in stores only a year and a half after the launch Total War: Rome II (which is now in a much better space as Total War: Rome II Emperor Edition).
