Rome 2 pre-orders “six-times” that of last Total War game, series had 2 million sales in 2012

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Munkeh111 on 17 May 2013

Slimebeast said:

Munkeh111 said:

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Just to understand what they said, it sold 2m copies without any new releases? That is quite impressive, though I wonder what percentage of them were during Steam sales?

Anyway, pre-orders after 1 week aren't that significant. This is actually a game I pre-ordered as soon as possible, though this time only because of the stupid over the top collectors edition (50% more expensive than the Shogun 2 one)

What do you mean, you pre-ordered the game as soon as possible but yet the collector's edition is stupid?

I pre-ordered the stupid collector's edition as soon as possible, if it wasn't for that, I would have pre-ordered in August like I will for GTA IV

All right.

Do you have many collector's editions of Total War games?

All of them since Empire, I don't think the previous ones even had collector's editions

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dsgrue3 on 17 May 2013

I never heard of the series until a week ago.
Found Total War: Medieval II for $3 so I picked it up.
It's really awesome. Way better than Age of Empires (which I stopped played a decade ago) - is that where Total War came from?

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Munkeh111 on 17 May 2013

dsgrue3 said:
I never heard of the series until a week ago.
Found Total War: Medieval II for $3 so I picked it up.
It's really awesome. Way better than Age of Empires (which I stopped played a decade ago) - is that where Total War came from?

Well apparently it was inspired by command and conquer, just read the first paragraph here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun_total_war

There is certainly no direct connection to Age of Empires

Personally, it's always been one of my favourite series, though I would recomend almost every other game over Medieval II... I just didn't like the setting as much as the rest