I'll buy it on day 1 if they make a total war game on china dynaties.

Hmm found a copy of Rome 2 for $45. Not sure should I pick it up or not.

That site's Rome 2 comes with Greek States Pack for $45.

The problem is, even Shogun 2 runs like turtle whenever I try to play.

Same.

This or Brave New Worlds.

Reviews arent very good though, from what i heard but hows user feedback?

Because you are using a laptop as laptop components are much slower than the same desktop component.You didnt state which version of i7 as if you have the ULV version, then, I am sorry to say but you have to get a desktop. The desktop version of i7 has 4 to 6 hyperthreading cores but the ULV version only has 2 very low performance cores with hyperthreading.

Laptops just doesnt goes well with Total War games from my experience.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Sep 5 2013, 05:40 PM

When your game is released in such a poor state, I am afraid it is gonna be hard to fix. Not the graphical bugs or balance issues but the broken AI that feels like it coded poorly from day 1.

I was hoping this to be good but it looked almost as bad as Sword of the Stars 2.

The problem is the borked AI that is incredibly difficult to fix. I doubt they are going to deliver patches with actual AI updates till they ship the expansion. Balance, performance issues and bugs can be fixed easily with patches but I doubt Rome 2's poor gameplay and AI will be fixed that easily.

I hope Sega isnt intending to turn CA into a TA factory. Strategy games need far more development time than other genre and the state of Rome 2 is a god damn joke.

At the glance from someone who didnt own it, Rome 2's bugs are absolutely horrible.

It is barely playable, from the horrible videos shown.