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. 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
  2. KiwiTracker
    Apr 15, 2015
    6
    Eh... Nothing memorable. This gets a 6 because it fixed everything that was wrong in Rome II. It's not full of bugs, the family tree is back, the AI is improved significantly, and the city building/specialization is what it should be. Additionally the actual combat is really fun. The improved AI really makes you think, but the improved pathing and unit AI makes even harrowing situationsEh... Nothing memorable. This gets a 6 because it fixed everything that was wrong in Rome II. It's not full of bugs, the family tree is back, the AI is improved significantly, and the city building/specialization is what it should be. Additionally the actual combat is really fun. The improved AI really makes you think, but the improved pathing and unit AI makes even harrowing situations beatable; just difficult, and rightly so.

    Unfortunately what holds this game back is the worst sin of them all. It's boring. After logging many, many hours (400+) in Rome II once it was patched to perfection, this game is just, boring. 75% of the factions feel EXACTLY THE SAME. Unless you are the Huns, or the Romans, every faction feels the same. And the fact that this game has launched with 6 factions just means you are already severely limited in your experience. I want to add that the Roman soldiers even look like everyone else, especially in early game. Isn't the Roman Empire supposed to have peaked? They should not look and feel like the Visigoths. But they do.

    The only other thing I can say about this game is it is really heavy, and has some issues running at a smooth frame rate. Even with a more than adequate machine (I far exceed the recommended specs) this game looks clunky and feels slow.

    Basically this game breaks immersion at every turn. Unless you play as the Huns. Wait until this game goes on a fire sale, you will be glad you did.    … Expand
  3. Aky03gamer
    Jun 13, 2015
    6
    IS A "COPY AND PASTE" OF HIS ANTECESOR, and you can pass this if the game didn't had this details: BAD OPTIMIZATION, is a very unoptimized game and even if you play "GTA V" in Ultra, you will play this game (with a Nvidia GeForce gtx 760 4GB) in high or even medium, and the second and the detail that i HATE more is this: IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THE GAME, BUY ALL THE DLC!!
    it could be an    IS A "COPY AND PASTE" OF HIS ANTECESOR, and you can pass this if the game didn't had this details: BAD OPTIMIZATION, is a very unoptimized game and even if you play "GTA V" in Ultra, you will play this game (with a Nvidia GeForce gtx 760 4GB) in high or even medium, and the second and the detail that i HATE more is this: IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THE GAME, BUY ALL THE DLC!!
    it could be an excellent game, but if The Creative Assembly makes more total war like this, this saga will dissapear very,very soon    … Expand
  4. erdogfu96
    Feb 9, 2020
    6
    It were better than rome 2 but still unbaked bread. It's like beta game and unstable. I remember that the time I defeated hard pc(with full army). I had 3 cavalry units only. Game is sooooooo broken. And unplayable.
    Graphics:9/10
    Sounds: 8/10
    Gameplay: 3/10
    Story: 5/10
  5. TsarVadim
    Mar 26, 2015
    5
    This game is a modified version of Rome 2 plain and simple, with too much withheld to be sold off as microtransactions. That being said, when you are lucky enough to play the game on an optimized rig it looks great and the battles look amazing. However the game has broken mechanics like Diplomacy penalties way too early, overpowered small nations (we're talking 3 army stacks for a singleThis game is a modified version of Rome 2 plain and simple, with too much withheld to be sold off as microtransactions. That being said, when you are lucky enough to play the game on an optimized rig it looks great and the battles look amazing. However the game has broken mechanics like Diplomacy penalties way too early, overpowered small nations (we're talking 3 army stacks for a single settlement nation), and relentless AI attacking behavior that chases you through the fog of war, over enemy terrain, no matter what. Overall 5 for being fun for a couple campaign tries, and then not when you realize it's broken.

    Plus, **** 50 dollar games that swindle you with DLC.    … Expand
  6. northernlad
    May 13, 2015
    5
    rome 2 rehashed very average game creative assembly have gone two steps backwards since shogun 2 which was a great game the only light on the horizon is warhammer.
  7. supercagan
    Mar 21, 2015
    5
    I have played almost all total war games and this one is unfortunately one of the worst.
    -Game is horribly optimized. Even though I have a great system I still have a lot of freezes and low frame rates
    -Cheating AI - what is the point of hiding your army in a forest in Norway if the AI in Africe knows your exact location. All your moves are against an enemy that can see all the map. Not    I have played almost all total war games and this one is unfortunately one of the worst.
    -Game is horribly optimized. Even though I have a great system I still have a lot of freezes and low frame rates
    -Cheating AI - what is the point of hiding your army in a forest in Norway if the AI in Africe knows your exact location. All your moves are against an enemy that can see all the map. Not to mention a small faction with 1 settlement can afford to have 3 armies of 10 heavy knights where I cannot afford half of that with my 6 region kingdom...
    -It just feels very unattractive. I am used to playing strategy games with just numbers, hexagons and stick art as unit figures, but even with all these fancy 3d animations and graphics the game feels very boring after 2 days.
    -DLC fest: can you just add a few scenarios and content to your already overpriced game instead of coming up with more stuff we have to pay?    … Expand
  8. maxster47
    Jun 12, 2015
    5
    I really tried not to buy into the hype of this game but at the last minute I pre-ordered it on steam. Unfortunately I was right to be skeptical. I've found rome 1 and every tw game since to be quite enjoy-able. I keep reading reviews saying it is just a rome 2 re-hash but I disagree. This game has serious OP cavalry and pathetic arty units (lack of ammunition and power). The missile unitsI really tried not to buy into the hype of this game but at the last minute I pre-ordered it on steam. Unfortunately I was right to be skeptical. I've found rome 1 and every tw game since to be quite enjoy-able. I keep reading reviews saying it is just a rome 2 re-hash but I disagree. This game has serious OP cavalry and pathetic arty units (lack of ammunition and power). The missile units are decent is you can manage to keep them from dying or retreating (like all other units).The infantry units are total push overs for the most part, especially at the beginning of a campaign. That leads me to my next point, your men die waaaaay to fast and route waaaaay too soon, making for really short battles (especially compared to other TW games).Speaking of campaigns, I just can't bring myself to follow through a campaign with Attila, no matter how hard I try, It feels like more of a burden than a pleasure. It's not too hard for my skill level, I just don't have fun with this game. The campaign gameplay and graphics are why I'm giving this game a 5 instead of a 1-3 rating.… Expand
  9. MartinG4
    Jul 23, 2020
    5
    Battles are decided within 2 minutes. Success is down to trial and error as there is only one way you can win and that is exactly playing like CA intends you to do. Make one wrong step and start over again. The setting and some of the game mechanics are good but overall it's a rushed and abandoned game without any balance.
  10. Mad_RC
    Mar 15, 2017
    4
    Eto ebanaya konveyernaya parasha! Kogda Sega uzhe perestanet` ubivat` Total war? Igrat` v etu huynu ne interesno, ved` vse raspilino na overdohuya DLC! Pust` sega soset i ne ubivaet CA i total war, suka bleat`!!!!
  11. Zenren
    Mar 25, 2015
    3
    With slow performance, greedy methods of money grabbing, and a game that seems more like a Rome II expansion than it's own incarnation, I recommend people steer clear.
  12. v3ctor
    Jan 28, 2017
    3
    I wish I could have enjoyed this game more - however so many frustrating things keep adding up until I just uninstalled it.

    The game is incredibly buggy with massive problems with pathfinding, AI cheats blatantly and makes it virtually impossible to win, the user interface is clunky and difficult to follow. The custom battles as well are confusing as custom army setups seem to be    I wish I could have enjoyed this game more - however so many frustrating things keep adding up until I just uninstalled it.

    The game is incredibly buggy with massive problems with pathfinding, AI cheats blatantly and makes it virtually impossible to win, the user interface is clunky and difficult to follow. The custom battles as well are confusing as custom army setups seem to be ignored and generated automatically.

    It's a real shame because there were moments in the battles that I really enjoyed, but no where near as much as the earlier Total War games.

    Sad to see the franchise going this way.    … Expand
  13. mortendc
    May 17, 2015
    3
    The game is generally good. It has very interesting new unit types and features like the horde mode for some factions. The reason for the low score is simply because the game is unplayable with the crashes. I my self have only experienced the game breaking CTD when clicking the faction button far into a campaign. but I understand several other crashes have been reported as well
  14. KillfaceMC
    Feb 27, 2015
    3
    The game is probably fine, but I wouldn't know. The game is impossible to run properly even with specs the exceeds the recommended specs. A waste of money unless you own a brand new monster PC. Dont even try and play it on a Mac. It is hopeless.
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. MrJade
    Mar 24, 2015
    2
    Same as Rome II, soulless, churned out like a machine, and utterly lacking of all charm. This game is nothing but a slap to the face of all of the older games' fans.
  18. 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
  19. LaughingSam
    Mar 17, 2015
    2
    Half the factions and more than half of the cultures were cut from the game to be sold as dlc. The only cultures playable are germanic, roman and eastern. Take a look at any of the total war games before tweedle dee and tweedle dum started making the frat boy specials video series and you can see pretty clearly what's wrong with this picture. This shameful dispray will not be forgotten.
  20. bohemond1944
    Sep 18, 2015
    2
    CAI and DAI are still terrible, BAI is slighly better, but still goes brain dead, between this and Rome 2 , CA is turning the series into TW:CoD, big on shiny, short on everything else to include seriously improving AI. The morale system is the worst and most unrealistic in the series to date.
  21. DarthInvader
    Mar 20, 2015
    2
    So far so bad, first off the tedious Character Family Tree/relationship features of no interest, its far more difficult to navigate around than previous TW games, The AI has huge armies to attack you from all sides, if you move an army to one side to carry out a mission they attack the other, there are constant rebellions that appear from nowhere, the battles are short and so farSo far so bad, first off the tedious Character Family Tree/relationship features of no interest, its far more difficult to navigate around than previous TW games, The AI has huge armies to attack you from all sides, if you move an army to one side to carry out a mission they attack the other, there are constant rebellions that appear from nowhere, the battles are short and so far uninteresting. The layout of the Technology and Building pages are poor. Fog of war very useful to AI to appear from with huge armies against your meagre resources, and on and on...game looks great. Hope the game play is improved feel I have wasted £47 on this.… Expand
  22. PeterCorless
    Jul 29, 2015
    2
    Murky graphics combined with turgid gameplay make Total War: Attila an unfortunate disappointment. I had fun with Shogun 2. I did not have fun with Attila.

    Let's start with the graphics. Even on a high-resolution monitor, all of the terrain looks like it came out of the mid-1990s. Villages look more like a collection of mushrooms. Fortified cities look like a case of ringworm. The    Murky graphics combined with turgid gameplay make Total War: Attila an unfortunate disappointment. I had fun with Shogun 2. I did not have fun with Attila.

    Let's start with the graphics. Even on a high-resolution monitor, all of the terrain looks like it came out of the mid-1990s. Villages look more like a collection of mushrooms. Fortified cities look like a case of ringworm. The forests and plains of Europe look like a badly-done miniatures wargame board with artificial flocking. There can be far more realistic, compelling landscape maps done in 2015. Everything on the screen, from faces to national symbols to text dialogue boxes looks a bit mushy.

    I'm not going to get into the tactical combat management because I loathe it. After you go through the tutorial, you need never have to watch your units flail around trying to find the enemy standing a few hundred yards away again. For years I've found the battlefield micromanagement of Total War to be tedious and unnecessary. Although I like the idea of battle management, I've never been impressed with how the system actually works. You create these wonderful lines of troops, you have this wing here and that wing there, and it all ends up smooshed together in the center regardless. Oh well. Plus, whatever I am doing tends to do worse than autoresolve would result in, so, whatever. Hence, I always auto-resolve battles. Thus to me, the only thing that is of interest in TW games is nation-building.

    There are some interesting possibilities for the political system, and I kind of like what they were trying to do with it, but all of that is buried under a hugely punishing system for basic economic growth, development and conquest.

    If you start as a small state, you are nearly constantly-starved for income to even conquer and hold one or two other cities before everything ends in financial ruin and rebellion. If you do conquer what you think of as a rich Roman city, the buildings are culture-specific, which means you can't use them. Thought you were going to conquer the world? Nope. You're stuck in debt with rebels spawning.

    Moreover, turns take forever to resolve cycling through all the nations. (And I thought Civ V was slow...)

    I kept trying to start over and over -- Was I missing something? What can I learn from my prior starts? But the turn delay. Oof!

    That's when I realized: I am not enjoying this regardless.

    Rated Meh for much better things to do instead.

    Mind you, I really, really wanted to like this game. After trying to play a few times, I felt underwhelmed.    … Expand
  23. Fuddwheat
    Aug 1, 2015
    2
    Have them all up to Rome 2, got Attila and won't ever play again. Won't buy any more after this, they have ruined it for me... Their spies can actually do things like protect their armies from spies. Mine: "Unusually unfortunate but the spy has failed in his mission." As he does every turn. Meanwhile, it has taken me half an hour to move between 4, maybe 5 cities in France because everyHave them all up to Rome 2, got Attila and won't ever play again. Won't buy any more after this, they have ruined it for me... Their spies can actually do things like protect their armies from spies. Mine: "Unusually unfortunate but the spy has failed in his mission." As he does every turn. Meanwhile, it has taken me half an hour to move between 4, maybe 5 cities in France because every single turn their spy misdirects my army. What an awesome experience it has been! If it was the first time I wouldn't be saying anything...… Expand
  24. IE-33
    Jun 12, 2015
    1
    I learned the hard way how terribly optimized and buggy ROME 2 was.... I saw on Youtube how terribly optimized Attila is, sorry not getting my money this time.

    Seriously, what the hell is wrong with CA lately? First unplayanle ROME 2 (Which is still bugged and unoptimized, not to mention that horrible world map which for some reason plays at 20 FPS...) now Attila (aka DLC sold at    I learned the hard way how terribly optimized and buggy ROME 2 was.... I saw on Youtube how terribly optimized Attila is, sorry not getting my money this time.

    Seriously, what the hell is wrong with CA lately?

    First unplayanle ROME 2 (Which is still bugged and unoptimized, not to mention that horrible world map which for some reason plays at 20 FPS...) now Attila (aka DLC sold at full price...)

    Game may be fun, but product they sell for full price is just a joke.    … Expand
  25. AstraL
    Mar 6, 2015
    0
    1)Not playable on release.
    2)Not playable coop.
    3)Broken Russian localization.
    4)In Russion Total War encyclopedia missing whole sections...
    WTF CA?
  26. 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
  27. 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.
  28. druout1944
    Jan 4, 2016
    0
    Another stagnant iteration in the Total War series which shows a lack of effort and innovation on the part of Sega/CA (not to mention a case for idiocracy judging by all the hype addled 10s tossed around). The AI in ATW, as in R2TW, is absolutely awful and continues to rely on varying degrees of cheats/handicaps to give the impression of a challenge. This is no longer acceptable; AI shouldAnother stagnant iteration in the Total War series which shows a lack of effort and innovation on the part of Sega/CA (not to mention a case for idiocracy judging by all the hype addled 10s tossed around). The AI in ATW, as in R2TW, is absolutely awful and continues to rely on varying degrees of cheats/handicaps to give the impression of a challenge. This is no longer acceptable; AI should have historically and situationally based strategic and operationally based objectives at this point in the series, unlike the wildly chaotic (and historically/strategically ludicrous) and nonsensical AI on display in this game. A good example of this is the tendency of hordes to commit faction suicide in senseless attacks. Crappy battle AI is still a factor, with AI units sometimes continually exchanging places (re: milling in confusion) or standing still next to a wall while getting machinegunned by archers. If anything the focus of graphics over substance is indicative of the CoD approach the Sega/CA are adopting post-Shogun. The lack of significant AI improvements is pathetic. I have tried many, many mods and put in a lot of hours in the hopes of this game being a worthwhile addition to the series, but nothing can repair this level of deficit. This will be my last Total War game, a sad thing coming from a fan of the series since Shogun I, as this game put the nail in the coffin for the series in tandem with RTW2 with the massive lack of substance and innovation, a poor parody of Barbarian Invasion to RTW I in this case. In the end I would recommend the EBII mod for MTW2 over this game, at least the EBII mod put some effort into the substance.… Expand
  29. themans
    Mar 30, 2015
    0
    I've played every total war game, and for a current release this is easily the worst one i've ever played. Its worthless. 90% of the units dont even have a description, its just a generic faction description. Not that it would matter anyway, because the soldiers won't even fight each other anymore. 2 armys will just stand near each other and swing axes at the air while random soldiersI've played every total war game, and for a current release this is easily the worst one i've ever played. Its worthless. 90% of the units dont even have a description, its just a generic faction description. Not that it would matter anyway, because the soldiers won't even fight each other anymore. 2 armys will just stand near each other and swing axes at the air while random soldiers die from apparent heart failure. This is a pathetic excuse for a game and should not have been released. I would give it a ZERO if I could..… Expand
  30. jmhoffer
    Jun 27, 2015
    0
    I couldn't even get going in this game as there were no factions I wanted to play.

    I prefer horse archer factions. They are my mainstay throughout all the Total War games other than Medieval 2, where I liked playing with Britain's longbows. In Attila, they butcher history and leave you with only two horse archer factions worth playing; the Huns or the Sassanids. The Sassanids are    I couldn't even get going in this game as there were no factions I wanted to play.

    I prefer horse archer factions. They are my mainstay throughout all the Total War games other than Medieval 2, where I liked playing with Britain's longbows.

    In Attila, they butcher history and leave you with only two horse archer factions worth playing; the Huns or the Sassanids.

    The Sassanids are not a good faction to learn to play with due to their starting size. I like playing as a smaller faction and discovering the game as I grow larger rather than having everything from a large empire thrown at me in the beginning. They're out.

    I have no interest in playing a culture that can't settle down and is forced to remain nomadic no matter what you want to do. The Huns are out.

    The last possible faction of potential interest is the Alans, the descendents of the Scythians. And oh boy, did CA screw THAT up! They get only two horse archer units and neither are available while migrating. This makes absolutely no sense on its own. The far worse part is that their horse archers are crap. They can't shoot 360 like the Huns and the Sassanids which makes absolutely no sense. They were descended from the freakin' Scythians!

    So there is no one interesting to play at all in the whole game. Bad enough that every Total War game makes horse archer ridiculously under powered.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#69 Best PC Game of 2015
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#33 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#50 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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Metascore
80

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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