After nearly 100 hours in this game I can honestly say its bad. Balancing is wild and swings in all directions. The African campaign is short, disconnected, and makes no sense. The italian campaign is a shadow of what a total war campaign is. If you are in it for that, you will be disappointed. Finally, the multiplayer is straight bad. Relic hasn't found a sweet spot since release and since then has just created one monster after another in terms of balancing. I really wanted to like this game but its been a mess and you shouldn't waste your cash. Buy an earlier iteration with mods and have fun, you aren't missing anything here.

After nearly 100 hours in this game I can honestly say its bad. Balancing is wild and swings in all directions. The African campaign is short, disconnected, and makes no sense. The italian campaign is a shadow of what a total war campaign is. If you are in it for that, you will be disappointed. Finally, the multiplayer is straight bad. Relic hasn't found a sweet spot since release and since then has just created one monster after another in terms of balancing. I really wanted to like this game but its been a mess and you shouldn't waste your cash. Buy an earlier iteration with mods and have fun, you aren't missing anything here.