Total War: Attila

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  • Publisher: Sega
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2015
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7.4

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  1. ttnordbo
    Feb 23, 2015
    0
    This game is more confusing than previous total war games. Poor gameplay, even worse performance. The game simply isnt fun. Squalor ruins the game more than anything else.
  2. pazmacats
    Feb 23, 2015
    2
    Stopped playing after 6 hrs. Bad performance, bad AI, confusing mechanics + incomplete documentation, slow in game encyclopedia, defending a village works best by leaving the village cause of maneuvering inside village = pain in the ass, random attacks out of fog of war because of huge campaign movement range, extremeley sluggish campaign play, TONS of waiting: pacing and performance wise,Stopped playing after 6 hrs. Bad performance, bad AI, confusing mechanics + incomplete documentation, slow in game encyclopedia, defending a village works best by leaving the village cause of maneuvering inside village = pain in the ass, random attacks out of fog of war because of huge campaign movement range, extremeley sluggish campaign play, TONS of waiting: pacing and performance wise, 30-60 seconds turn times, very strange upgrade trees, unnecessary grief mechanics (sanitation)… Expand
  3. alQamar
    Feb 22, 2015
    7
    Attila is very likely to Barbarian Invasion an expansion of an original game, fielding a lot of advantageous updates.

    The difference between both are the price. While BI for Rome 1 was sold as an expansion, Attila is sold as an stand alone expansion quite full priced. Granted you can buy it for about 24 € outside Steam - and legal too - at a lower price Attila is worth it and works out.    Attila is very likely to Barbarian Invasion an expansion of an original game, fielding a lot of advantageous updates.

    The difference between both are the price. While BI for Rome 1 was sold as an expansion, Attila is sold as an stand alone expansion quite full priced. Granted you can buy it for about 24 € outside Steam - and legal too - at a lower price Attila is worth it and works out. What does not work out is the optimization.

    Attila is more demanding than Rome 2, but offers also better graphics, including MSAA, and more detailed units. While vanilla it looks like it is modded but it is not.

    Attila is Rome 2 2.5, without a year of patches. It is much better and whole, but still not worth a 8/10 that was given by the most of the reviewers.

    Rome 2 was about civilized scam, Attila is about barbarian scum. Armchair generals will love it. Also the multiplayer works much better and fluid.

    I can recommend a buy but not full priced. Look for legal alternatives instead and be prepared you have to lower the graphical settings even on high end computers.

    This all has a high price though: People with AMD processors (not graphics cards) will suffer a lot as they did in Rome 2, on quality settings or below Attila becomes barely playable. I am currently collecting results in the TWcenter benchmark thread.

    Warning: 7 DLCs are already reported on SteamDB.info, so get yourself ready for a DLC fest!

    +4 many "new" features that people wanted to have in Rome 2
    +1 better music but still repetitive
    +3 much better graphics, vanilla it looks like modded!
    +2 multiplayer has been improved alot, stability, chat and lot less lag, no slow motion units so far

    -2 on the flipside very high requirements, that are either very GPU limited even on HIGH-END computers (maximum quality preset or extreme preset and even quality preset) OR CPU limited on lower settings like performance and high performance
    -1 still severe lack of optimization for AMD CPUs, which now kills the game at all for people that have AMD processors.
    - to high priced as it contains a lot of features that were (intentionally) missing in Rome 2, 7 DLC listed and hidden zero day!

    I rate Attila with a mild 7/10 and can still recommend the game without serious pain.    … Expand
  4. indi01
    Feb 22, 2015
    8
    This game is fantastic, yes some tweaking is needed (Tagmata cav anyone?) but overall a really enjoyable experience. This is what Rome 2 should have been at release.
  5. Kragmire
    Feb 21, 2015
    0
    I'm about to give up on this game... after playing it for about a week. Let me guarantee you that I own and have played all the other Total War games - vanilla, modded, etc. Attila has broken AI that sucks all the fun out of the game for me. It isn't that it is "hard". It is that it is unplayably unfair. Let me give you a few examples:
    (1) Apparently you can have an empire of five    I'm about to give up on this game... after playing it for about a week. Let me guarantee you that I own and have played all the other Total War games - vanilla, modded, etc. Attila has broken AI that sucks all the fun out of the game for me. It isn't that it is "hard". It is that it is unplayably unfair. Let me give you a few examples:
    (1) Apparently you can have an empire of five territories, but can just barely afford to field 3 full armies. Meanwhile every AI empire consisting of a single territory can field 3 armies as well. How? Who knows?
    (2) The AI knows where your armies are, even when you are out of line of sight. I can save the game, and move my armies to one side of my empire, and an enemy will pop up and attack the city I just left. Meanwhile if I load the game and move my armies in the OTHER direction, a DIFFERENT enemy will pop up and attach the cities I left on the OTHER side of the map.
    (3) Because the AI cheats, there is no way to "surprise" the enemy. For example, if you move a single army (from out of line of sight) to an enemy city, you will find it strongly defended. Reload the game, and move TWO armies to an enemy city - and you find it abandoned because the forces fled before you were even within line of sight.
    (4) The AI will declare war on you - even when outnumbered. Then they will abandon their home territory, march their armies through four or five enemy empires - untouched - and attack you. Meanwhile their home empire is never touched even though surrounded by other enemies. If you defeat them and try to pursue, every AI empire you try to pass through will attack you, and the MOMENT you are one turn's move away from your home empire, every one of your neighbors (who are not supposed to know where your armies are) will raid your empire.
    (5) AI enemies will come to each other's defense, even though they are enemies.
    (6) I can trap an enemy army on a peninsula, and when I attack them they can "magically" retreat off the peninsula into deep woods three turns of movement away. While I am trying to pursue them through the deep woods that they magically teleported into, they are free to pop out the other side and raid my cities.
    It goes on and on. There is nothing more disappointing in a strategy game than cheating AI. Everything the AI does is supposed to be based on the game environment and evaluations of risks, rewards, and relationships.

    There are other glitches and problems in this game, and I have had one crash. Given that it is brand new, this is not too bad, and I assume they will patch the small problems. But until they fix the AI, this game is dead to me.    … Expand
  6. succorosso
    Feb 21, 2015
    2
    Unlike other negative reviewers I didn't experience significant technical glitches, BUT, the game is regretfully totally unplayable. Maybe the developers wanted to create a historically unacurate feeling of impeding doom, but thy have done it in an extremely cheap and ill concived way.
    As a Roman empire you preside over a vast expense of towns and villages with mostly LEVEL 1 buildings.    Unlike other negative reviewers I didn't experience significant technical glitches, BUT, the game is regretfully totally unplayable. Maybe the developers wanted to create a historically unacurate feeling of impeding doom, but thy have done it in an extremely cheap and ill concived way.
    As a Roman empire you preside over a vast expense of towns and villages with mostly LEVEL 1 buildings. This rag tag empire has big problems keeping itself fed and keeping the order. All of your armies are crappy LEVEL 1 units. Looks like Rome managed to conquer the world using inferior troops. Then the barbarian armies crawal out from under the rocks. They don't have crappy level 1 troops, no sir, they got good troops and they got a lot of them. You need to fight them off. Autoresolve gives you no chance. The only thing you can do is park next to the arrow tower, activate defensive testudo and hope the tower kills enough enemies to break them. Masterpiece of strategy? More like ill concieved, unplayable garbage.
    And yes, now every miserable character, and you will have a lot of those has his miserable skills, that you need to click together and again and again and again. There is some lame family tree I don't care about, but the game will keep on reminding me to click their stuff around.
    Overall you fight an uphill battle against highly advanced and omnipresent "barbarians", together with the rebels and neighbors that want a piece of your inept empire.

    Dear developer: I'm sorry I've bought this game, mechanics are a bit better than Rome, but naval battles are a joke, tower mechanics are as crude as it gets and overall can you please lay off boring spies and heros and Crusader king like family tree that doesn't belong to a strategy game and give me something playable?
    Not recommended at all. Waiting for mods.    … Expand
  7. blackbird1
    Feb 21, 2015
    0
    If the fonts was not good tor ead or to small for you in rome 2 or shogun its even worse now.
    when will ca notice that its 2015..... make scale able gui or increase your damn font size for at least 2.
    and don't put bright font on bright background and

    don't put tooltipps on the side of the screen center it.

    your ui is more annoying than before.
  8. dans221
    Feb 20, 2015
    9
    I held off buying the game until the early reviews came out after the Rome 2 release was so badly botched. I have to say, Attila has really improved where Rome 2 fell short: the release is well optimized, there's a variety of factions available straight off the bat, and the battles feel more immersive. Most importantly it has a very distinct and interesting atmosphere where Rome 2 feltI held off buying the game until the early reviews came out after the Rome 2 release was so badly botched. I have to say, Attila has really improved where Rome 2 fell short: the release is well optimized, there's a variety of factions available straight off the bat, and the battles feel more immersive. Most importantly it has a very distinct and interesting atmosphere where Rome 2 felt rather bland even after all the patching. I like the developments to the characters & family trees in Campaign mode. I really recommend this one!… Expand
  9. svablas
    Feb 20, 2015
    10
    We must agree that this is best TW game so far but what best means that is not much to say. Its better in all apspects compare to shogun 2 (second best) so i give 10, because its best so far and 10 is only logical score it could have. There is bunch of idiots that have problems with theyr gaming setup blaming game for problems that ruins theyr experience. Computer specs do not mater mostWe must agree that this is best TW game so far but what best means that is not much to say. Its better in all apspects compare to shogun 2 (second best) so i give 10, because its best so far and 10 is only logical score it could have. There is bunch of idiots that have problems with theyr gaming setup blaming game for problems that ruins theyr experience. Computer specs do not mater most of the time (old man can beat young criple without sweat) .

    Solid game, but there is lots of space to improve it expecialy AI. Yep AI best so far but if you take closer look you will see that Ai do very good job at positioning units right before he charge/counter charge and if you counter it he still folow the same path. I saw no units rotation at the heat of battle, no fake retreat/mini ambushes. Thats is crucial. Break AI formation, battle plan (pretty easy to find out) and thats it, if you know what you doing, IF you follow SUN TSU rules of ART OF WAR AI no match for you, but if you go straight you will be SLAIN as newer before. What i noticed that now AI likes split his formation, make larger gabs, not like old one with his monolite formation that is cannons meat. Now its much harder to devastate AI with catapults etc. need good timing. But common battle rule is that if you make gaps you must move a lot more that is hard for this AI, he just cant handle it, but stil creates a chalenge if you are 1:2 and in 1:4 you need good position and army composition to actualy try your luck that in most cases ends very bad, better avoid this :) also i talk only about legendary difficulty.

    Solid game.

    Buy

    Slay

    Be slayed (most likely)

    And enjoy!!!    … Expand
  10. mweagle
    Feb 20, 2015
    6
    The game is fine. If you played any TW game, you would feel right at home with the basics. Family free adds a layer of gameplay to which you can really optimize your people in power.
    Combat is fine, just like the other TW games, and the best thing: The AI isn't as dumb anymore. It now actually does things that makes sense.
    So why the 6? Simple, the game is very heavy. As in very    The game is fine. If you played any TW game, you would feel right at home with the basics. Family free adds a layer of gameplay to which you can really optimize your people in power.
    Combat is fine, just like the other TW games, and the best thing: The AI isn't as dumb anymore. It now actually does things that makes sense.

    So why the 6?

    Simple, the game is very heavy. As in very very heavy. I can play BF4 on 1080p, medium with a stable 125fps. But TW:A on low can't run higher than 60. This would not effect the grade too much, but the loading times are quite long. I didn't install this on my SSD, which I should have, and that resulted in loading times up to 20 seconds for a battle. In 2015, quite unacceptable.

    Now that is also not too bad and can be played with. What cannot be played with, it the unstability of the game. I have yet to finish a combat in real time, because every single combat, the game "stops working". I did every single thing to prevent this (googled it), I put every single setting to low. I basically prevented everything that could make the game crash. Once or a couple times is OK. That can happen. But from the 10 battles I tried, all 10 crashed. And battles in TW are not 2 minute clashes. They can take a long time. And to lose every single perfectly executed statagy to a consistent crash is the worst thing this game can do. And it does it.

    And before you think, "omg ur system suckz", I have never experienced more than 3 crashes in the first 30 hours of any other game, even the ones that are known for crashes. My system is better than the recommended system and I can play it above 60fps. Yet the crashes are gamebreaking.

    Would have been a 9 if not for these issues.    … Expand
  11. Ed_
    Feb 20, 2015
    9
    FAR BETTER than Rome II

    Here you can fight and build up your empire or can make mistakes and fall. The AI is good (some smaller issues but those are bearable). Graphics would be amazing if you had 4000 dollars for a computer but it also runs smoothly on weaker PCs and runs perfectly on my MAC (the game is still nice). Music: meh... One thing though! Magyars are not mongoloids...LOL    FAR BETTER than Rome II

    Here you can fight and build up your empire or can make mistakes and fall.
    The AI is good (some smaller issues but those are bearable).
    Graphics would be amazing if you had 4000 dollars for a computer but it also runs smoothly on weaker PCs and runs perfectly on my MAC (the game is still nice).
    Music: meh...
    One thing though! Magyars are not mongoloids...LOL

    Good game. Looking forward to DLCs.    … Expand
  12. EndoRoboto
    Feb 19, 2015
    9
    This game is my Total War Heaven. I've played hundreds of hours worth of Total War games and this is most definitely my favorite yet. The fact that it is fully playable and working quite well at launch is one that really not many saw coming.
    The campaign is my favorite of any game so far. Not only is the map much more detailed and beautiful, but the AI is also much smarter than what I've    This game is my Total War Heaven. I've played hundreds of hours worth of Total War games and this is most definitely my favorite yet. The fact that it is fully playable and working quite well at launch is one that really not many saw coming.
    The campaign is my favorite of any game so far. Not only is the map much more detailed and beautiful, but the AI is also much smarter than what I've seen in past games. Diplomacy is actually useful and quite necessary here. If we take into account the creeping cold from the north that extends south and ruins fertility as the game goes on as well as the inexorable wave of Huns heading ever westwards, there's more than enough reason to get one up and moving to better lands as opposed to Rome 2 where typically where ever you start is more or less where you're going to be in your possession unless flipped by another nation. Here in Attila, if you see the unbeatable hordes heading your way you can even abandon a settlement, giving you a short income boost and completely razing the land you own making it useless to your enemies. At that point I would consider heading south and west to better vacation spots. I hear the north coast of Africa is quite fine this time of year.
    Province and Settlement management is similar to Rome 2 but there are small changes that really shine such as you can now issue an edict in any settlement that has a governor instead of needing to take over the entire province first as in Rome 2.
    Generals and forces have better laid out trees so you can actually plan ahead how you want to build your character or army/navy. Family trees have also returned for those that missed them so much from Shogun 2.
    The battles are quite a sight to behold. Volleys of crossbow bolts cast shallow arcs as opposed to traditional bows which fall very nearly vertical after they reach their apex. Men catch fire and *scream* bloody murder. Bare-chested barbarians wielding the falx charge to bring their weapons to bear on their once Roman overlords as their warhounds bound beside them teeth bared. This is Total War. The AI for the battles is slightly improved perhaps from Rome 2. Was is definite is that the updates Rome 2 received for over a year have all found their way home to Attila as well.
    There are some issues that the game faces. Some report that enemies raze settlements far too often creating large swathes of wasteland that cost ridiculous sums of money to repopulate. Another issue is that upgrading a unit through research makes it so you lose the ability to further recruit the lower-tier unit you replace. This wouldn't be such an issue if the units you were upgrading didn't change their role completely. Optimization is another problem, albeit a very slight one. I run the game on a fx6350 and HD7850 at the preset medium/quality settings and a beautiful run she is. One thing to note however, I did customize the anti-aliasing to MLAA instead of the other AA choices. After this change, the game not only looked a lot better (duh) but it surprisingly ran smoother as well.
    Creative Assembly is seems have really outdone themselves this time around. The issues the game has can and we can almost be guaranteed will be patched in the coming weeks and months. I almost feel bad for modders this time around as the game has so few faults for me personally that I don't feel like I need certain mods just for the game to be playable a la Rome 2 pre-EE.
    If you are a Total War fan, stop reading this and just get it already. If you consider yourself a grand-strategy fan you need to do the same. Just like watching guys on fire as you send in the dogs to finish them off while their city burns around them? Yeah, you get the idea.    … Expand
  13. wolfswoosh
    Feb 19, 2015
    10
    Fantastic Singleplayer - good out of the box multiplayer.

    If your a fan of the series its never been this good in singleplayer - buy without hesitation!
  14. Ariakkan
    Feb 19, 2015
    9
    The best Total War release that I can recall. Polished, with some minor glitches (mind you, this is a monster piece of software and it will not work properly in undergeared machines) but years light from the bugs of other titles in the franchise.

    A huge improvement from Rome 2, a massive experience as a whole and a must-buy for any Grand Strategy fan. Kudos to Creative Assembly, one    The best Total War release that I can recall. Polished, with some minor glitches (mind you, this is a monster piece of software and it will not work properly in undergeared machines) but years light from the bugs of other titles in the franchise.

    A huge improvement from Rome 2, a massive experience as a whole and a must-buy for any Grand Strategy fan.

    Kudos to Creative Assembly, one of the few and rare gems that still exist out there!    … Expand
  15. Trajan
    Feb 18, 2015
    10
    Awesome Game. It feels great again playing total war. Rome 2 was a let down and Attila brought my favorite strategy series back. Great Faction and Unit variety. Great single player experience. Loads of features with several layers. I highly recommend this game. As expected optimizations and tweaking will happen over the next few months but Creative Assembly has built a fantasticAwesome Game. It feels great again playing total war. Rome 2 was a let down and Attila brought my favorite strategy series back. Great Faction and Unit variety. Great single player experience. Loads of features with several layers. I highly recommend this game. As expected optimizations and tweaking will happen over the next few months but Creative Assembly has built a fantastic game to keep me entertained for years to come. I will rate the game 10 to offset the Trolls who try to mess with metacritics scoring. Reality I would give the game no less than 8.5 and up to 9.… Expand
  16. Papaflower
    Feb 18, 2015
    10
    Finally an effort to return to what made the Total War series great. CA at last seems to understand that oversimplification and false advertising are not methods which attract new fans. Whoever thinks that Attila is a copycat of Rome 2 misses the point of a FRANCHISE. Attila, after some tweaking,is to become a Great Total War Title.
  17. MK32USMC
    Feb 18, 2015
    10
    Most fun campaign in total war history, and I have not yet been attacked by the huns! Very fun multiplayer.
    A must have. Only bad thing I can think of is that battles finish way too quickly, not allowing us to execute more battle tactics. Other than that,its a bloody good game!
  18. EarlGreyHot
    Feb 18, 2015
    8
    It's a good game and certainly an improvement over Rome 2 at release. At this point I'm only 10 hours into my first campaign which, as you know with these kind of games, isn't enough time to get to know it properly but I will say that I like the tone and feel to the game so far.

    My one main complain is that it has crashed once for me so far and my save file was kept freezing at the end    It's a good game and certainly an improvement over Rome 2 at release. At this point I'm only 10 hours into my first campaign which, as you know with these kind of games, isn't enough time to get to know it properly but I will say that I like the tone and feel to the game so far.

    My one main complain is that it has crashed once for me so far and my save file was kept freezing at the end of the turn, eventually I managed to get it to the next turn but it was annoying.    … Expand
  19. Anco
    Feb 18, 2015
    9
    A huge improvement from Rome 2 and the devs listened to many and many community suggestions.
    There's obviously some polishing to be done but the only complain that i can do for now is how the unit mass works. Everyone in combat is too close to each others so it makes a giant single mess.
  20. benlesagedu42
    Feb 18, 2015
    9
    This game is very good. I played all TW games so far and according to me...this one will be one of the best.

    But at the moment, we need a blood and gore DLC (with new and more animations than rome 2!)

    Thanks CA, you learn from Rome's 2 failure!
  21. Haromerr
    Feb 17, 2015
    10
    If you have ever craved the feeling in a strategy game that the entity you are playing is every bit as smart as you, if not smarter, then Creative Assembly's newest offering Total War: Attila is for you. It has a superficial resemblance to its predecessor, Rome II, and obviously it uses a development of the same engine, but whereas Rome II had a certain predictability about it, Attila hasIf you have ever craved the feeling in a strategy game that the entity you are playing is every bit as smart as you, if not smarter, then Creative Assembly's newest offering Total War: Attila is for you. It has a superficial resemblance to its predecessor, Rome II, and obviously it uses a development of the same engine, but whereas Rome II had a certain predictability about it, Attila has moved beyond that. On campaign or on the battlefield, it is full of surprises, and even on lower difficulty settings it's almost a certainty that at some stage you're going to have to reload an earlier save and start over.

    The game captures superbly the grim onset of the Dark Ages, as Rome collapses, the barbarians arrive, and the landscape is littered with empty, desolate settlements that signpost the savage passing of the hordes, chief among them the massive, seemingly unchallengeable might of the Huns.

    This game on release is a huge advance on Rome II, which itself was a work of flawed genius, in my opinion. It's definitely worth wheeling out the General's armchair and sallying forth to remake the ancient world in whatever image you care to try and make it in. Glory awaits!    … Expand
  22. dj_cole
    Feb 17, 2015
    8
    Total War Attila is both a step forward and a step away from what I've come to love with the Total War Series. I've been a fan of the series playing every game since Total War Medieval. I'm also a fan of grand strategy games as a genre and have played many different iterations from my first love of Star Wars Rebellion to modern iterations like Total War Rome II and Hearts of Iron III.Total War Attila is both a step forward and a step away from what I've come to love with the Total War Series. I've been a fan of the series playing every game since Total War Medieval. I'm also a fan of grand strategy games as a genre and have played many different iterations from my first love of Star Wars Rebellion to modern iterations like Total War Rome II and Hearts of Iron III. Through all those games I've followed a methodical plan of action. Secure a resource base, research technologies and send out a large force to secure and hold territory. Total War Attila doesn't let me do that. The game held a fire to my feet and forced me into action.

    The game starts with the Roman Empire in decline and various factions vying for territory. Playing as the Geats, one of the Norse factions, the game turned against me quickly with famine and a harsh winter that meant I simply could not sit still. So, I gathered my forces, sailed across the sea and did what Vikings do, I invaded the British Isles. Within ten turns I was feeling the same intensity it took dozens to feel in Total War Rome II. With food shortages at home and forces suffering from attrition after the journey across the sea my options were to secure land or die. My first battles were almost as nail biting as a march into Northern Africa with legions of Roman soldiers to face down Carthage because there was so much at stake.

    There are some notable improvements, if you want to call them, to the battle system to make it more realistic. It's the little things like having to actually have siege equipment to assault a fortress or having units be able to return to the fight after breaking. The combat, as always, is intense and a joy to watch up close.

    One of the more notable aspects of the game is the new horde system that allows you to pick up your faction and move it. You uproot your civilization, losing all you've built up, and move your people into a new area in order to conquer and re-establish yourself. There are four playable factions that start out as hordes. I don't love the feature, but it really is a child of the concept of the game.

    The game starts chaotically. In the north harsh winters grip the land forcing the Norse to move south to not starve. Nomadic hordes are moving in from the east to attack the crumbling Roman Empire. The game is very much in flux and, unless you're playing as one of the three established factions (the Western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, or the Sassanid Empire) you are pushed to move either from others moving into your territory or harsh environments. I experimented with the horde mechanics, but I'm admittedly a settle and build up type of player so I played intentionally trying to not have to use them as one of the Norse factions. It can be done but it requires building up in other areas to support the motherland, so to speak.

    The menus and interfaces are much improved from previous iterations. After the initial confusion from years of Rome II's interfaces I grew to like the much more accessible UI.
    There is a much more in depth internal political system that those who have played Crusader Kings would recognize, albeit in a lighter version. The system is more in depth than in Rome II and I felt like I was in a precarious position quite often trying to maintain loyalty among my members and still retain the influence. Rather than the fairly basic senatorial system in Rome II there is a dual system of dominion and control. Dominion is your influence over the people of your faction while control is how the elite view you and can be lost or gained through political intrigue. Influence is spent on political intrigue to further your goals or secure loyalty.

    The game looks great and sounds great. It's a joy to watch the battles unfold and the campaign map is aesthetically pleasing enough to be worth looking at for extended periods of time.

    Overall the AI does a good job, but can make strange choices. It will decline political treaties that seem favorable or offer non-aggression pacts with a large payment when I’m not even close to them. Or it will park an army that could easily wipe out the defenders at a settlement a short distance from the settlement and just sit doing nothing for years.

    Total War Attila isn’t the perfect game. And at the end of the day it may just end up being a novelty for me. I like being a plodding, methodical empire securing territory and defending it before moving on. What Attila is, is different. It forces me to play a way I don’t want to. It makes that small empire in the distance playable. And sometimes, what you really need is something different. I’m not still playing Star Wars Rebellion, after all. I would recommend Attila to anyone who enjoys grand strategy, and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys Total War games like myself. It may not be a perfect step forward, but it feels fresh.    … Expand
  23. Lightbane
    Feb 17, 2015
    7
    I can't fully recommend the game as of yet, it still has too many bugs. The new algorithm they use with the battle auto-calculate needs adjustment, and they need to fix the lag and crashing. And the AI behaviour with just sacking settlements instead of sack&loot. Only uprisings seem to take cities. When they fix the AI issues this will be a solid 9/10
  24. Mikeyisroc
    Feb 17, 2015
    10
    A huge improvement over Rome 2, Attila is dark, gritty, and different. The Grand campaign is very interesting, and the AI very much improved. A couple of release day glitches and bugs here and there, but nothing serious.

    This series is stepping in the right direction.
  25. AchedTeacher
    Feb 17, 2015
    9
    After playing 10 hours (about 2 of which were the long tutorial) I can definitely say I enjoyed the hell out of this. I liked Rome 2, contrary to many others, and liked it even more with the expansions the Emperor Edition gave but Attila is refinement at its best at a 33% discount compared to what Rome 2 originally cost.

    Characters and agents are much more likable than before, mostly    After playing 10 hours (about 2 of which were the long tutorial) I can definitely say I enjoyed the hell out of this. I liked Rome 2, contrary to many others, and liked it even more with the expansions the Emperor Edition gave but Attila is refinement at its best at a 33% discount compared to what Rome 2 originally cost.

    Characters and agents are much more likable than before, mostly due to the improved family tree system. And while this doesn't quite boast Crusader Kings' intricateness (other characters still just pop out of nowhere), it's enough for a franchise like Total War.

    Playing mostly as the Huns and Visigoths so far, I've only got an idea of "barbarian" factions of which mostly the horde aspects. Battle AI seems seriously smarter, although it's still quite easy to beat your opponent on normal (as it should be).    … Expand
  26. sebseb
    Feb 17, 2015
    10
    One of the best total war games, includes good old and new mechanics, and way more optimized at launch than Rome 2, Still haven't found any bugs yet. Recommended for Total War fans.
  27. RiccyC
    Feb 17, 2015
    9
    Wow. I didn't expect much from Attila after the fiasco that was Rome II - but I was wrong and I am delighted to say Attila is so much better its not even close. Good job CA - you've really listened to the criticism. The campaign is challenging and complex - there are so many mechanics at work it really takes some mastering (I've only played 6 hours or so but that's usually enough timeWow. I didn't expect much from Attila after the fiasco that was Rome II - but I was wrong and I am delighted to say Attila is so much better its not even close. Good job CA - you've really listened to the criticism. The campaign is challenging and complex - there are so many mechanics at work it really takes some mastering (I've only played 6 hours or so but that's usually enough time in TW games to pretty much "do" all the features - not this time!) and its actually "polished"! Its atmospheric because of the music and the map.

    Return to form for the series - because its gone back to its roots and hasn't tried to appeal the arcade crowd. Probably why its getting better user ratings than reviewer ratings whereas in the past the reviewers have rated games higher than users! Because they seem to like arcade clickfests!!    … Expand
  28. Hexcaliber
    Feb 17, 2015
    9
    There is a lot of hate for the current game which is unfounded, three reviews submitted within a few minutes of release gave it a 0,including claims better systems have bad performance; clearly nothing but unbiased hate.

    I have found performance to be better than Rome II, not a single crash in 4 hours of continued play everything near maxed and it looks better than Rome II too. I am    There is a lot of hate for the current game which is unfounded, three reviews submitted within a few minutes of release gave it a 0,including claims better systems have bad performance; clearly nothing but unbiased hate.

    I have found performance to be better than Rome II, not a single crash in 4 hours of continued play everything near maxed and it looks better than Rome II too. I am currently running it on an I7 4790k, 8 gig of ram and an Nvidia GTX 680; fps in full twenty stack battles is around 60 fps and the campaign map runs around 40 fps zoomed out.

    As for the game itself, the campaign and battle ai are much improved as is the siege ai, a problem in several earlier games from the series.

    Ignore the bitter haters, many of who clearly do not even own the game, if you have any doubts head on over to twitch and watch a few streams, see that there are no performance problems and make up your own mind.    … Expand
  29. Exfan
    Feb 17, 2015
    2
    Not as bad as Rome 2? Rome 2 should have been polished product like this? These are frankly stupid arguments. Attila is even more horrendous beta state game than Rome 2. If you really wan't this game wait about 9 months to year or buy it at some discount sales. If you like total war series i suggest buying Rome 2 or Shogun 2 those are far superior games at this moment.
    Game is    Not as bad as Rome 2? Rome 2 should have been polished product like this? These are frankly stupid arguments. Attila is even more horrendous beta state game than Rome 2. If you really wan't this game wait about 9 months to year or buy it at some discount sales. If you like total war series i suggest buying Rome 2 or Shogun 2 those are far superior games at this moment.
    Game is horrendously optimized at the moment so if you haven't got some uber rig to run this game please do not buy it. At this point some might think game must be amazing looking because "uber" rig required, sadly that is not true. Well they used Rome 2 engine on this game clearly they should try to make new less taxing engine. Two products in row same optimization problems (Attila and Rome 2).
    Strategy wise game has really potential they actually listened players at this time. So i give 2/10 because at least they tried to make decent game. Sadly there are loads of more polished strategy games at market at the moment. Played little bit of tutorial and AI seems to be at same moronic level as in other games in this series.    … Expand
  30. mblomstrand92
    Feb 17, 2015
    0
    !WARNING! Horribly optimized game !WARNING!

    I have a Geforce NVIDIA GTX 970, Intel Core i5 4670K 3.8 Ghz and 8 GB of ram. This game can't run near 60fps in a big battle even if I choose the next lowest settings on everything and with very few filters, and also those on the lower settings. I can't play the battles if they turn to big and therefore all sieges and larger battles are    !WARNING! Horribly optimized game !WARNING!

    I have a Geforce NVIDIA GTX 970, Intel Core i5 4670K 3.8 Ghz and 8 GB of ram. This game can't run near 60fps in a big battle even if I choose the next lowest settings on everything and with very few filters, and also those on the lower settings. I can't play the battles if they turn to big and therefore all sieges and larger battles are instantly unplayable for me. Game looks to be a step up from Rome 2 but I can't deal with this. As fast as you hover over a lot of units the framerate just drops like hell. So if you have a real solid rig and can deal with playing around 30 fps I guess it could be fun. But not for me. 30 euros wasted. Thanks alot.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 66 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 66
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 66
  3. Negative: 0 out of 66
  1. Gaming Nexus
    May 21, 2015
    88
    For the uninitiated, Total War: Attila does a good enough job introducing a very detailed world and mechanics.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 19, 2015
    68
    Creative Assembly needs to put extra effort into the making of the upcoming Total War: Warhammer so as not to lose the last vestiges of the studio’s credibility.
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  3. Games Master UK
    Apr 9, 2015
    91
    Like the man himself, Attila is brutal, unforgiving and complex, and all the better for it. A triumph. [April 2015, p.68]
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