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Total War Rome II Emperor Edition Announced
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON –
August 29, in the year of our Lord 2014 – SEGAź of
America, Inc. and SEGAź Europe, Ltd. today announced Total War™:
ROME II – Emperor Edition, the definitive edition of the
best-selling game in the Total War™ series from Creative
Assembly.
Emperor Edition collects together all free content to date,
which includes wide-ranging revisions, additions to game
features and adds a brand new Campaign Pack expansion,
‘Imperator Augustus’.
Most importantly, existing ROME II players will receive all of
the above content via automatic update on the day of launch,
upgrading them to Emperor Edition at no cost.
The new ‘Imperator Augustus’ Campaign Pack adds hundreds of
hours of sandbox gameplay across a new campaign map reflecting
the geopolitical boundaries of the Second Triumvirate War.
Players will determine the outcome of a vast civil war, which
saw Octavian, Marc Antony and Lepidus vying to become the very
first Emperor of Rome.
Alongside all feature updates from launch (including Twitch.tv
integration, touch controls, new factions, new units and now the
Mac version), Emperor Edition also features an improved politics
system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles, and
improved visuals in both campaign and battle.
Mike Simpson, Creative Director of the Total War team, said:
“ROME II was far and away our most ambitious game. We see more
people playing, and playing for longer, than any other game in
the Total War series. However, we take our players’ feedback
very seriously. Through the multitude of improvements and free
content updates we’ve brought to ROME II since its launch, we’ve
worked hard to try and meet their expectations. We want Emperor
Edition to be remembered as one of our finest games.”
The design of Emperor Edition was led by Jack Lusted,
Development Lead of CA’s New Content Team. “With the Imperator
Augustus Campaign Pack, we wanted to recreate the vast civil war
which erupted after Julius Caesar’s murder,” said Lusted. “You
can tackle the campaign as various Roman and non-Roman factions,
including Armenia for the first time. Our aim was to represent
the titanic power struggle that led to Octavian becoming the
first Emperor of Rome. It’s a pretty epic campaign, and it’s
great that we can offer this to existing ROME II players for
free as a thanks for their support”.