Reviews - Laevinus

Absolutely wonderful concept. I see what they're trying to do with it, but it's still incredibly buggy, exploitable, and not very pretty. Hopefully it will be improved upon.

Pretty much what everyone else said. Game deserves about a four. Diplomacy is a joke and consists of you paying other countries so they won't attack you even though you're five times stronger than them. The bugs in siege are absolutely atrocious (they can't climb ladders for ****.) Turns take a year in-game time so there are no seasons and your generals die before they can go halfway across Europe. Slaves are stupid and just give you ridiculous negative modifiers. (You can't loot a city without taking them either.) The tactical map, while pretty to look at, is not practical because you can't zoom and place units how you want them.

This is the usual Creative Assembly hyping up one of their "Total War" games and having it fall flat on its face with no chance of recovery.

Beautiful map. Wonderfully crafted units and battlefields. Excellent balance.

The battlefields can have issues with unit placement and movement. The character portraits while nice do not really fit in with the art of the game.

Nice map. Nice equipment. Lacking substance as story goes, but with a little imagination, you can make your own story.