Though it’s much easier to manager than CKII’s equivalent, there are perhaps not enough tools to manage your powerbase-I found myself in absolute rule of the Huns almost by accident, which increased my army integrity and tax rate but heavily reduced growth in the horde.
Though I never had a factional event go badly wrong, the new family system (which borrows heavily from Crusader Kings) adds welcome complexity to the game, so much so that it’s hard that it’s not always been there. It’s worth pausing on the factional politics. This has been a problem with Total War for years and one which only seems to be getting worse - we suspect its core to the engine and insoluble. Yet, though battles and the main map are often solid (and indeed beautiful, if you turn all the HUD off with ‘k’) as soon as it gets to the end of turn phase, the game chugs badly as it simulates the AI turns, with the framerate dropping from high 40s straight to 0. Graphics options AA, textures, DoF, particle effects, screen space reflections, unit details, building details, unit sizeĪttila mostly runs as smoothly as a Hunnish horse.
ATTILA TOTAL WAR DLC REVIEW WINDOWS 7
Reviewed on Intel i7, Nvidia GTX 970, Windows 7 64, 8GB RAM It’s a much more in-game representation of history than Napoleon Total War, though I lament the loss of that game’s more structured narrative. As you go along, the game reveals more of his story through cutscenes, trying to build up a theme of him being the doom of the world. Attila’s predecessor, Uldin, always seems to go blind, and Attila always survives to adulthood. Though much of the family structure, dilemmas and events are randomised, certain events always seem to happen. The Huns historically really did this, and the other hordes did to a lesser extent.Īttila himself does feature in the game, especially playing as the Huns. Especially as the game goes on, and you start exploring properly, and you find whole swathes of the map that are burning, depopulated rubble and soot.
Playing it, it’s striking how often cities get razed, and the way the map changes from stability and richness to poverty and desolation. Thematically, the game reflects the era well. And that’s it-a small number of factions for a Total War game, despite the number in-game, which makes me suspect they’ll all unlock as DLC as time goes by. And the Sassanids are strong and really only under threat from the Huns and the Eastern Romans. The Eastern is rich and aggressive, but surrounded on all sides by enemies. The Western Roman Empire is massively wealthy at the game’s start, but with few armies or military buildings, which makes it impossible to defend. Of course, there are the three remaining ‘civilised’ Empires.
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