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It has potential, I haven't played it that much, but it doesn't look all that bad.
Graphics are fine, it's a bit rough UI wise and has some hiccups but due to the cost of the game it's not that bad.
If these kind of games are your deal you should at least check this out, I got it on a big sale and it seems to have been worth the money I spent on it.

So I had heard of this game, and I have seen people play it.
But after I read this article from their page.
http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/
I had to buy it. actually, two of them.
For this reason alone you should concider buying it.
I might add some extra information about the actual game, but don't count on it.

It has most of the upsides of rome 1 combined with the coop campaign function of shogun 2.

Best of both worlds.

A vocal minority is constantly complaining about CA and the total war series saying things like: It's a moneygrab, they keep things out of the game in order to make extra cash. They also complain about CA not listening to them.
Some of the big issues these people had with Rome 2.
They hated the UI and especially the unit cards, so CA changed them and they are very cool now.
They disliked the low manouvrability of ships and general buggyness of naval battles, so CA changed them. Boats can now turn extremely unrealistically well making sea battles very smooth and a lot easier.
They complained about transport ships being overpowered, so now you can kill entire transport fleets with a handful of ships.
They complained about Rome 2 graphics being too low and the game being too heavy. Attila runs smoothly on maxed out eveything on my pc but also loads faster on minimum on my brothers old laptop.
They complained about the daughters of mars being unrealistic, a moneygrab and stupid.
So they put female troops alongside male troops in germanic armies which is realistic, cool, well implemented and free.

They changed a lot, mostly for the better making the game smoother and easier than rome 2 while having less AI mechanics to abuse.
I'm not a real high graphic games kind of person but to me the game looks pretty neat.
Weather effects are still hell, slowing down framerate and obscuring sight.
The factions are cool, they share some units but have good differences.
There is great potential for extra factions and units so the game is only going to get better.

I personally liked rome 2 a lot, the variety of units it boasted over the shogun roster was glorious and made every coop campaign a treat. I liked shogun 2 for properly introducing coop campaign as a base feature of the game and I still like Emprie rome and Medieval 2 for their scope and depth.

The game is still missing a coop campaign for more than two people, some units are upgraded in tiers kind of like the roman reforms in rome 1 and 2 effectively reducing variety in armies. I personally don't like this feature, but it's not really better or worse than the normal rosters.

Attila has made some great improvements over rome 2 and I'm having a lot of fun in my coop campaign with my brother.
The price tag is a bit high and waiting for a sale is not a bad idea but all in all, it's improved fun and runs well.

They've made Dark souls more accessible to the general populace in Dark souls 2, for the better and the worse.
The game is a lot less buggy and controller dependant and generally improves connectivity, controls and graphical options.
It doesn't need any mods for proper play and is clearly much less of a pc port. It's better optimized and allows you to rebind your mouse keys.
They reduced multiple annoyances in pvp, mostly lagsteps and connectivity.

They however also gave people with lag and advantage in pvp and added some weird hit boxes on certain weapons.
Certain weapons are stronger than others without any downsides making pvp very one sided and usually causing you to fight the same setups.
The removal of the stun resistance poise offered also makes pvp more one sided, faster weapons are generally just better than slower ones.

The co-op is miles ahead of DS1. Except for the scourge that is soul memory everything related to connecting with people, phantoms and friends to finding and fighting people. The different soapstones make it much more rewarding and smooth to play with people.

The game is clearly easier, containing no really hard areas and no particular hard bosses. In dark souls 2 a hard area is just an area that'smashed full of monsters or poison traps and just requires caution. *hard* bosses usually just take long and hit hard.

I'm not getting started on soul memory here, not the room or time. It's just horrible.

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if this game had multiplayer it'd be the best game of 2013

If this game had multiplayer it'd be the best game of 2014.

Wow, very space, much amaze.

Great customization and building options.
Keeps you hooked and you'll always learn something new