In Rome 2’s take, players face the same problems: not enough men, and what men there are are outflanked at every turn. Now, inside Rome 2, I’m watching Al rewrite Total War history, while rewriting history. All it did was show the limits of what the original game could do. The trouble is, it wasn’t very good – it was just too small, too limited. Al is playing through a new take on an old problem: Teutoburg forest was one of the historical battles from the original Rome: Total War.
But as I watch Al scamper through the woods, I realise something terribly meta.
