There are multiple ways to capture cities.

To accommodate this extra scale, the game now features a top-down tactical map.

Conflicts take place over much bigger environments вЂ“ much of Carthage has been recreated in the demo.

The demo has a big focus on Roman siege towers, and the snap-to unit camera takes the view of the game inside the siege tower itself.

Though expected, we see catapults and ballistae being put to good use.

Naval units now have more than one ship per unit.

The game can now combine naval and land battles into the same conflict, including naval invasions: in this demo a Roman ship lands on the coast of Carthage.

Rome II: Total War features a new graphics engine, which features particle and deferred lighting.

The scenario here is the Siege of Carthage.

The demonstration takes place with a scenario set during the Third Punic War, which took place during 149BC to 146BC.

In this mode it functions like a sort of documentary cam, shaking while the unit walks вЂ“ itвЂ™s вЂњa soldierвЂ™s eye viewвЂќ according to Creative Assembly. You can now lock the camera to single units.

The gameвЂ™s cameras have been redesigned.

Ultimately, the game will allow you to decide whether to favour the republic or become RomeвЂ™s dictator.

The idea is to have you thinking about armies and legions rather than fiddling around with individual units.

The bigger campaign map has вЂњhundredsвЂќ of regions to move your units around, but the game buckets them into provinces to make management easier.

ThereвЂ™s вЂњmore human-level drama on the campaign mapвЂќ in Rome II.

As you rise through the ranks, your success will attract less-than-favourable responses from some of your friends.

Despite that focus, Rome II is still attempting to make its macro scale bigger вЂ“ weвЂ™re guessing the senate will play a large part of that, but Creative Assembly wonвЂ™t say just yet.

The gameвЂ™s key design vision is in taking players from a macro to micro scale, such as jumping from a campaign map to a single unit.

With that in place, Rome II is going big вЂ“ itвЂ™s bigger than Rome 1 in geographical scale.

It was designed with a focus on game systems, such as engine polishing and improvements to unit pathing.

Shogun 2 was set in narrow geographical areas, with limited sets of units вЂ“ a comparatively small scale to whatвЂ™s being intended with Rome II.

The headline new features are a redesigned graphics engine, a greater sense of scale and a stylish new cinematic unit camera.Дuring the presentation, Creative Assembly walked us through plenty of details about what Rome II intends to offer when itвЂ™s released in late 2013, and lead designer James Russell spoke about the gameвЂ™s intentions. SEGA and Creative Assembly have lifted the lid on Rome II: Total War, showing an impressive 15 minute demo revolving around Roman efforts to reduce Carthage to rubble.

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