Announced today for iPad (and probably following to Android and Windows with enough response) Rome: Total War. The game, first released in 2004, has been adapted for use on modern tablets. Feral Interactive handle lots of positive Mac and Linux ports, so they’re taking the lead on this one. So with a new UI, you too can play the fourteen year old game wherever and whenever you’d like.
When tablets first really came into their own, and everyone was starting to work out how games would do on the systems, there was one genre I always thought got cheated.
The hardware seemed perfect for strategy. The idea of the tablet in front of you on the table, with simple click and point mechanics to direct your troops. It probably wouldn’t work for your starcrafts or your detail driven Men of War types, instead I always thought that a modified Total War game would be perfect.
And not their simplified versions with free mobile play conventions.
Just a standard total war with adapted controls.
Now, six years after the generation one iPad made tablets mainstream, we finally get exactly what I wanted.
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