Currently, I have the game, Rome Total War. I was wondering if it would be worth buying the new Total War or waiting for Rome Total War 2. Or, should I ditch the Total War series for Civilization?
Currently, I have the game, Rome Total War. I was wondering if it would be worth buying the new Total War or waiting for Rome Total War 2. Or, should I ditch the Total War series for Civilization?
Currently, I have the game, Rome Total War. I was wondering if it would be worth buying the new Total War or waiting for Rome Total War 2. Or, should I ditch the Total War series for Civilization?
Oh yeah what about Age of Empires. Any good? How does it compare to Total War? Also while your here, would an Early 2011 Macbook Pro i5 2.3ghz with 8gb of ram meet the qualifications?If you enjoyed Rome TW on Mac, there's no reason not to get Empire TW as well... assuming hardware requirements are met. Go for it! (Though I'm waiting for the DVD version, which will be available shortly).
You could always try the Civilization series as well. Though they're turn-based strategy, they offer plenty of depth. But if you mostly enjoy real-time strategy type games like Rome or Age of Empires, etc. getting Empire TW seems a no brainer.
As you make no reference to the other TW games out on PC only (Medieval 2, Napoleon, Shogun 2), maybe you play in Mac-native only, not Bootcamp?
If so, keep in mind that Rome TW 2 has yet to be released on PC. It's highly unlikely to make it to Mac OS X for a few years yet.
Oh yeah what about Age of Empires. Any good? How does it compare to Total War? Also while your here, would an Early 2011 Macbook Pro i5 2.3ghz with 8gb of ram meet the qualifications?
Actually just checked the specs for the 13" MBP & I think you've got a HD 4000 card? Shouldn't be a problem for Empire TW though.
You'd still get an okay performance.
Here's a video of it running in medium settings on a MacBook Air with HD 3000 graphics. Mind that's on W7 via Bootcamp, so liable to get better FPS, but it still looks good:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5WlRU5ZjOM
Anyone know if TOTAL WAR or the others have RETINA support for the MBPr? I think that would be fantastic if so.
Retina in gaming is not that relevant as the quality is defined by more than resolution. However I can confirm Empire does not support retina resolution on the 650M in the current MacBookPro as it only has 1GB of VRAM which is nowhere near enough for Empire to run at Retina resolution on the Mac.
Some titles will support retina if the graphics card can handle it. It takes a lot more power to run a game at retina than Pages or Safari.
Edwin
I understand there is alot of action in EMPIRE, yet Blizzard was able to get Warcraft and Diablo 3 in full retina. Same with Guild Wars 2. Not sure what's different.