Rome 2 deja vu ! You remember the Rome 2 disaster? What a dysfunctional disappointment it was, for fans that have waited a decade for its release, as well as regular players that have expected a polished bug free game? After the 1st battle, my eyes could not believe what they were seeing! 1. Same pathfinding issues, units do not know how to navigate the map, individual soldiers within the unit don't know which way to face or to move to make a movement as a single unit, same nonsense during the combat. Just like in Rome 2, clueless how to navigate siege towers to the walls. 2. Same lack of unit cohesion and integrity. Remember Rome 2 blobs? Entire armies blobbing the same point on attack order? How about units running through each other, the rubberband effect? 3. Eyes bleeding 1 on 1 combat animations. 4. Same brain dead battle AI. 5. Same disappointing 5 minutes battles, if it even lasts that long. Same units stats with numbers pulled out of the imagination, with no regard to balance to the entire game. This unpolished garbage is still in the Alpha state. I am simply mind blown, how after years since the Rome 2 disaster (that is to this day is still full of bugs) and many consecutive titles that were improvement after improvement of each other (attila, wh, 3 kingdoms), they managed to go back to square one!

I have played total war games since Rome 1 so I've been around the block for a while with these. My biggest quip has got to be that the anti-player personalities for the ai are terribly unfun. For one, every faction you play, even on normal and no matter which side (Greek or Trojan), will have nearly all of the other factions from the other side against them. If you play as

I have played total war games since Rome 1 so I've been around the block for a while with these. My biggest quip has got to be that the anti-player personalities for the ai are terribly unfun. For one, every faction you play, even on normal and no matter which side (Greek or Trojan), will have nearly all of the other factions from the other side against them. If you play as a Greek faction and support your Greek friends then they largely just sit around and all the Trojan factions will cross the sea in no time and pretty much b-line for you, maybe hitting an allied settlement if it's directly in the way but almost always coming straight for you. The same happens if you play a Trojan faction, your Trojan buddies just get stupid and the nearly all the Greeks head straight for you. Another thing that happens is that friendly-ish factions will just turn on you, by joining a war (which should be the same thing as declaring) and stab you in the back. Basically no matter what and even on lower difficulties the ai always tries to fight you and gangs up on solely the player. Pretty ridiculous when playing as a faction that's on the edge of the map, like Lycia, and having all these rando factions from across the map attack you for no reason other than you're the player. I love the setting and attempt at "realism" but every campaign I start, and I've tried almost all of them, the game's preference to just keep dicking over the player just kills my enjoyment. Until CA removes the baloney anti-player BS I'm going to give up playing this game.

Game is broken. 19hrs of play on normal is terribly difficult due to supply lines costing 20% per army you build. This means you can barely field 2 armies using the cheapest units possible. The AI loves to attack the players settlements on the other side of the map and gets to field 5+ armies compared to the players 2. Settlements are not allowed to have walls or if they are, will be very easy to capture by the AI. You do need to cheat to beat this game which I chose not to due to it breaking the game. Game wasn't fun to play. Sadly very disappointed when I played it.

Big thanks to Epic Games I got TROY for free. Otherwise it would have been a huge waste of money. Unfortunately I wasted a LOT of time on the game which mostly upset me with it's stupid mechanics of vassalage relationships. On turn 109, deep in Dardanian territory, my strongest vassal Ithaca decided not to go to war with a faction and became an instant and strong enemy right in my backyard. Based on idiotic game rules "You need to teach them a lesson". Nope. Game erased and saves deleted forever. Also, do not buy their blood pack. It is just a greedy money grab by the developer. Total waste of money. Go on nexus mods for this game and you will see dozens of mods that fix bad mechanics of the game. That should tell you that it is not a good game. Don't waste your time, the game was mostly infuriating and gave almost no joy.