Great addition to the Total War series, took me awhile to get around to really playing it a lot but it fixes a lot of issues from Rome 2 and has some of it's own (like any TW game).

It improves on things a lot visually, has more character to it's campaign with building icons having well done art, politics is much more rewarding and balanced, AI is pretty decent overall.

Only real complaint is that battles are, again, too fast. Two equal units fighting head-on should not rip each other to shreds in 30 seconds (and this is on huge unit sizes, 160 men per unit are all dying in 30 seconds - 1 min). Fortunately this is fixed with a simple mod and the game is great.

DLC hate train has gone through this game though which is pretty much the only reason for the negative reviews.

I can understand the Vikings making people mad but the other two faction DLCs are extremely well done and add lots of unique units. This is some of their best DLC to date outside of expansions like Fall of the Samurai.

Great addition to the Total War series, took me awhile to get around to really playing it a lot but it fixes a lot of issues from Rome 2 and has some of it's own (like any TW game). It improves on things a lot visually, has more character to it's campaign with building icons having well done art, politics is much more rewarding and balanced, AI is pretty decent overall. Only real complaint is that battles are, again, too fast. Two equal units fighting head-on should not rip each other to shreds in 30 seconds (and this is on huge unit sizes, 160 men per unit are all dying in 30 seconds - 1 min). Fortunately this is fixed with a simple mod and the game is great. DLC hate train has gone through this game though which is pretty much the only reason for the negative reviews. I can understand the Vikings making people mad but the other two faction DLCs are extremely well done and add lots of unique units. This is some of their best DLC to date outside of expansions like Fall of the Samurai.