A Total War Saga: TROY

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6.1

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  1. opor
    Nov 18, 2020
    1
    Maybe not the worst total war game but a solid second to thrones of britannia
  2. Hakisak
    Aug 14, 2020
    1
    CA has been producing undisputedly great games since forever until the big bad epic twisted their arm and gave them a big bag of fornite-cash. now the end user is left with a half-finished chinese mobile game. they happily delayed 3k and no one cared if it meant a good game, troy should have been delayed but since epic has them by the gonads they were forced to push out garbage.CA has been producing undisputedly great games since forever until the big bad epic twisted their arm and gave them a big bag of fornite-cash. now the end user is left with a half-finished chinese mobile game. they happily delayed 3k and no one cared if it meant a good game, troy should have been delayed but since epic has them by the gonads they were forced to push out garbage. multiplayer and the mod workshop are some of the great features total war games have to offer but we don't have either on epic games.

    it's so sad to see such a great development team reduced to scum because some guy wanted a new bigger yacht.    … Expand
  3. Deusvuult
    Aug 16, 2020
    1
    poor graphics. Awful ui. Boring game play. There's really not much else. Can't recommend
  4. kyonkochanyaa
    Aug 19, 2020
    1
    1) Several serious animation bugs and glitches
    2) No blood leave attack animations feeling cartoonishly limp and like Tom and Jerry: Total War
    3) Campaign is basically Rome II: Wrath of Sparta (as in infantry dominant roster with limited cavalry) meets Warhammer/Three Kingdoms 4) The Hero commander system needs to go. Having a single unit who's only good for mashing against other    1) Several serious animation bugs and glitches
    2) No blood leave attack animations feeling cartoonishly limp and like Tom and Jerry: Total War
    3) Campaign is basically Rome II: Wrath of Sparta (as in infantry dominant roster with limited cavalry) meets Warhammer/Three Kingdoms
    4) The Hero commander system needs to go. Having a single unit who's only good for mashing against other Generals makes it's use pathetically limited. Also AOE buffs should be passive except for one that boosts morale temporarily
    5) Sieges are boring without any variety to ways to break walls or do anything but run mindlessly at walls. also where the most bugs occur (as they always have in TW games) and I had units that are supposed to be able to attack gates unable to attack them and just stood there dying
    6) The AI cheats unfairly in several ways such as knowing where your settlements are without scouting them as well as targeting the player before AI enemies that are more inportant to their main quest goals making you feel gimped and like the AI is just a wave of flesh.
    7) I got this game for Free on the Epic games store and it feels almost like they knew this game was a bit shoddy and in hopes to save face and get some positive user reviews they gave away a mediocre product for free to try and win over people.
    8) Having to protect every province in case a single army slips past your armies and you have to do a mad dash to catch them as they raze settlement after settlement and then abuse the fog of war to dissapear and switch to march stance to flee before you have any chance to catch them leading to a very slow and tedious campaign where large armies clashing is rare since most enemy armies will either wipe the floor with you or fall over with a slight breeze.    … Expand
  5. mors_orcus
    Sep 5, 2020
    1
    Unimaginable bad. I put it on easy to play a laid back rts to get nostalgia. iv beaten it on several campaings and even on easy on a normal charactrer its insanely stupid rebellion every turn, impossible to raise happiness as achiles. its the worst poorly made game ever. devs should be ashamed. it was free on epic and its still not worth it at all.
  6. Lastbornnutria
    Oct 5, 2020
    1
    I honestly can't fathom how they managed to release three kingdoms and then this trash. I grew up playing Rome and I have sunk countless hours in to Rome, Warhammer, Empires, Rome 2 and Three Kingdoms. Bad:
    Graphics feel outdated
    Systems don't make sense AI is awful Just need to build a whole army of archers and you can beat pretty much everything No connection to heroes what so ever Feels    I honestly can't fathom how they managed to release three kingdoms and then this trash. I grew up playing Rome and I have sunk countless hours in to Rome, Warhammer, Empires, Rome 2 and Three Kingdoms. Bad:
    Graphics feel outdated
    Systems don't make sense
    AI is awful
    Just need to build a whole army of archers and you can beat pretty much everything
    No connection to heroes what so ever
    Feels like someone in the Dev team freaking loves Troy and was just handed some spare assets to about him up
    After the taste of diplomacy from Three Kingdoms this is a joke eg, I was at war down to their last settlement, they offered me a peace deal but demanded I pay half my resources for it...couldn't take it seriously after that.

    Good:
    I got it for free

    Summary, just buy Three Kingdoms! Don't mug yourself off    … Expand
  7. AiEki
    Aug 27, 2020
    0
    No mod support & no multiplayer. Almost like reskin game. AI clunky like all the total war series especially siege battle. Blood option should be free too.
  8. Cioby
    Aug 16, 2020
    0
    Sold out for Chinese money. Game looks like **** anyway. Glad I didn't get it on Epic. Waiting for it to be fixed and cracked.
    Not gonna buy any more Total War games anymore.
  9. boznahto
    Aug 20, 2023
    0
    Буде чесно якщо я одразу зізнаюся - цю гру я отримав безкоштовна на епікгеймс! З цим покінчили тепер можна - Гра просто супер, ніколи раніше не розумів тоталворів а тут не можу відірватися, чудова графіка, оптимізація (граю на високих та максимальних з Мак М1 8гб), музика та звук, геймплей та і взагалі, у світі в якому РТС померло так приємно пограти у нову АААБуде чесно якщо я одразу зізнаюся - цю гру я отримав безкоштовна на епікгеймс! З цим покінчили тепер можна - Гра просто супер, ніколи раніше не розумів тоталворів а тут не можу відірватися, чудова графіка, оптимізація (граю на високих та максимальних з Мак М1 8гб), музика та звук, геймплей та і взагалі, у світі в якому РТС померло так приємно пограти у нову ААА
  10. DenuvoLUL
    Aug 15, 2020
    0
    Total War is dead. The games are just not the same anymore. Rome 1, Med 2, Shogun 2, even Rome 2 with heavy modding is vastly superior to the recent games CA has put out. This game feels and looks like a mobile game. The campaign map is full of basically bloatware. What happened to Total War games being epic sandbox games where you can carve your empire out as you seem fit? No longer isTotal War is dead. The games are just not the same anymore. Rome 1, Med 2, Shogun 2, even Rome 2 with heavy modding is vastly superior to the recent games CA has put out. This game feels and looks like a mobile game. The campaign map is full of basically bloatware. What happened to Total War games being epic sandbox games where you can carve your empire out as you seem fit? No longer is that an option.

    They've managed to turn one of the best series of games ever created that had epic sandbox campaigns (Rome 1, Med 2) to forcing the player to play a certain way. This all started with the Warhammer series.

    The campaign map is atrocious, full of features that add no depth to the game whatsoever. CA thinks all of these useless features/bloatware adds depth to the game and it doesn't. It's covering up for how shallow the game is.

    The battles are no different. First and foremost let's get one major thing out of the way.

    NO BLOOD. Again with this anti-consumer **** Want blood? You're going to have to cough up a few bucks later on with a DLC. This is truly unbelievable. This is the same **** they've pulled with other titles and they still have the same audacity to not include it in the base game AGAIN.

    The battles are a complete joke. The UI and the massive unit flags/banners/ take up the majority of the screen. You can barely see anything in the battle, on top of that your "hero's" banner takes up another big part of the screen. It very much resembles a mobile game.

    CA is an anti-consumer company and I'm glad I didn't buy this, but got it for free through Epic. I don't even want to play it anymore and I didn't even buy it.

    Absolute joke of a game, CA is no longer capable of putting out a quality product. It's truly sad.    … Expand
  11. sex69
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    The era of Troy is very boring.
    It would have been better if it had been set in another country.
    Europe or Greece is too boring.
  12. Karllosi
    Aug 15, 2020
    0
    To make it short, this game is basically shogun 2 with food instead of gold as main commodity, bad UI and war-hammer like heroes.

    Even so this game is based on the war-hammer 2 version of the engine, they did not include any of the quality of life or UI layouts they head improved on over the time. Instead they made up a new layout with questionable operational decisions, over    To make it short, this game is basically shogun 2 with food instead of gold as main commodity, bad UI and war-hammer like heroes.

    Even so this game is based on the war-hammer 2 version of the engine, they did not include any of the quality of life or UI layouts they head improved on over the time. Instead they made up a new layout with questionable operational decisions, over complicating systems that head already perfectly worked and making the life of the player thus harder then it needs to be. Research notifications that keep you from ending the turn for example are gone, the menus like diplomacy are no longer in the bottom right of the screen but in the top left. There is no longer a ok button to start the diplomacy instead on has to double click and so on.

    In battle woods (more like all vision blocking bushes), unlike they did in war-hammer 2 no longer become invisible when zooming in. Instead when fighting in the woods one cant see the exact positions of the units. Only the flags making it very very hard to determine who got flanked or how to flank the enemy. Sieges of main settlements have gotten worse do to the lag of siege engines, making the attacker depended of war-hammer 2 ladders and comically looking rams that can only damage the gates.
    Just to name a few.

    I don't know for whom this game was meant. Its has pseudo mythically units like giant bow man aso., it has over powered heroes and the satting is boring af. Why didn't they use the middle east and the conflics beween the Egyptians and Hittites Rames II. style I will never understand but whilst having egyptian style units allready in the game as seen with the Khopesh warriors, this whole setting is a waste of potential.

    In short for every step forward they took 2 steps back and wasted all of its potential. Would have been fun to have a bronze age game, but this is not.

    0/10 would not buy aggain.    … Expand
  13. Igorecheck
    Aug 16, 2020
    0
    This is the worst part of the series at the moment, many have already resigned themselves to the reskinning of games, to the same thing, but there are no significant historical events, but fantasy is mixed (do not interfere with the history and your speculations!), There is no interesting gameplay, almost all we have already seen this. This game is much inferior to TWW and TWW2, it isThis is the worst part of the series at the moment, many have already resigned themselves to the reskinning of games, to the same thing, but there are no significant historical events, but fantasy is mixed (do not interfere with the history and your speculations!), There is no interesting gameplay, almost all we have already seen this. This game is much inferior to TWW and TWW2, it is inferior even to Shogun 2! Many mechanics are taken from previous games, for example Warhammer. Do they think that the people playing the historical parts of the series bypassed Warhammer? The economy was simplified in Warhammer, but this is understandable because the focus was on the warhead, which was excellent.
    Units that receive arrows in their backs fall backwards, this is not logical. Soldiers do not move naturally, clone army (although it was normal once, but not in 2020). Animations are generally worse. You will also have to run your infantry after their infantry at the end of each battle, for there is no cavalry in the game. Chasing arrows turns into a hunt.
    I am a person who played in the first Rome, played all the following parts except Britain, I saw all sorts of unfortunate things, for example, the DLC about Alexander the Great (who knows, he will understand), but this is the first time they give me such a slag.
    Even having received the game for free, I will not play it (and I am not alone), and I think that this game will be forgotten.
    I have accumulated a lot of complaints about the Creative assembly over the past years, but that's all about the troy.
    If the company continues to make such terrible games (and they are exclusive to the PC), then it will be possible to safely move to game consoles.
    sorry for my English    … Expand
  14. Adixylian
    Aug 17, 2020
    0
    Thank God I didn't pay for this.

    Graphics: They are OK Progression: Feels empty and dumb, plain and sometimes confusing because it's a weird mix between imaginary and reality. Resources and city building: for a total war game, it could be better but it's not terrible. Battles: O man, so boring and repetitive. Even today, Medieval 2 and Rome 2 feels so much better. What a huge    Thank God I didn't pay for this.

    Graphics: They are OK

    Progression: Feels empty and dumb, plain and sometimes confusing because it's a weird mix between imaginary and reality.

    Resources and city building: for a total war game, it could be better but it's not terrible.

    Battles: O man, so boring and repetitive. Even today, Medieval 2 and Rome 2 feels so much better. What a huge downgrade...

    AI, diplomacy, reputation and relations: Can it be worse? I actually never played a game with such terrible design. Very fast you will find yourself in war with almost 80% factions because of sh*tty alghorithm that manages diplomacy and relations. Civilization VI is so much better in this that Total War Saga: Troy looks like a tiny crying kid pulling his respectful father (Civ VI) on a sleeve wanting to eat a cookie.

    Trust me, don't spend your money. This is devastating.
    The worst thing is watching how Total War franchise keeps getting worse and worse. Before you needed to think, to plan, do diplomacy and many other stuff. Now, the game pushes you into so many battles per turn (and Battle is boring and repetitive) that you start hating that game icon.exe. There is no brain begind all of this, it's like mixing Call of Duty (no brain just shoot) with Total War. Just fight after fight with no room for diplomacy or anything else.

    What a letdown...    … Expand
  15. spacechief2000
    Aug 18, 2020
    0
    A beautifully rendered game inspired by the art style of the grecian urns (giving rise to the "cartoonish" criticisms"). Zoom in and it goes a bit off though, lots of similar looking infantrymen.
    Reasonably interesting combat, I played as Odysseus and had to get the hang of enfilading javelinmen and the different role of spearmen.
    The resource system gives you a nice push to go and    A beautifully rendered game inspired by the art style of the grecian urns (giving rise to the "cartoonish" criticisms"). Zoom in and it goes a bit off though, lots of similar looking infantrymen.
    Reasonably interesting combat, I played as Odysseus and had to get the hang of enfilading javelinmen and the different role of spearmen.
    The resource system gives you a nice push to go and conquer various areas, though the "running out of gold" mechanic is extremely annoying. Similarly the religion mechanic gives some nice buffs but is the cause of some annoying micromanagment (why is there a cap at 650?).
    All in all a fun campaign but unlikely to give it more than one or two playthoughs.    … Expand
  16. frranky1
    Aug 24, 2020
    0
    Казуальная, мультяшная каломасса. Куча в дрись урезанных механик и фичь и убитый бой в реальном времени.
  17. PittenZak94
    Jul 25, 2023
    0
    Tried it for about an hour, but it shows almost straight away that in many regards this game is a step down from previous titles. The greatest let down is the battles. Physics in battles are way off, soldiers in units hardly interact with each other when in battle (soldier swings sword and 3 meter in front of him someone just falls down), arrows seem unimpactful and only appear as whiteTried it for about an hour, but it shows almost straight away that in many regards this game is a step down from previous titles. The greatest let down is the battles. Physics in battles are way off, soldiers in units hardly interact with each other when in battle (soldier swings sword and 3 meter in front of him someone just falls down), arrows seem unimpactful and only appear as white lines, equipment gives only mediocre bonuses, abilities feel insignificant.… Expand
  18. carlosxande81
    Apr 7, 2021
    0
    Great game, with great mechanics. If you love Total war, strategy games, Troy, just go and check it out.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 50 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. CD-Action
    Nov 16, 2020
    80
    A mix between Three Kingdoms and Thrones of Britannia, Troy is a solid game that has a lot to offer and guarantees many hours of addictive fun but might disappoint loyal Total War fans with some of the changes (e.g. diplomacy). If you’re new to the series, be prepared to power through the overwhelming beginning, fortunately with the help of one of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen. [11/2020, p.60]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 21, 2020
    82
    Troy can’t hold its own against the main entries of Total War series. But its purpose is to introduce new players to the series, and in that regard, Troy is more than adequate. [Issue#248,p.44]
  3. Riot Pixels
    Oct 18, 2020
    63
    As an abstract total conversion of Total War, Troy is a passable game, but it does very little to convey the atmosphere of Iliad (or that movie with Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, for that matter).
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