Historical accuracy is adequate for a video game whose goal is to entertain people rather than educate them.

The map is a bit small compared to that of the standalone game, but for a DLC it is pretty nice. The AI is stupid as ever of course, but at least the core game play is back to the roots of building something up rather than watching everything burn down. After a while half the map is nothing but desolate wastelands.Īge of Charlemagne fixes some of these problems. Not only the Huns but other factions as well tend to raze regions far too frequently. Another thing, which they may have changed by now, is the constant razing. Which turns fighting off the Huns into a game of whack-a-mole. All the usual ways in which you would deal with a powerful enemy are pretty much disabled. Every army you defeat instantly respawns somewhere else on the map, usually not too far away. And again it's not necessarily because they are so hard to defeat (they can be though), but because of the blatant cheating. Until (and if) you ultimately defeat them they are such an annoyance. Personally I can live with the climate change, but the Huns are pissing me off. So there is bound to be some frustration. But empire building is the core of TW games. It is an age of downfall and destruction, not empire building. This does of course come with the setting. They are interesting and challenging, but I am not convinced they are actually fun. The next two issues I have with Attila are related to one another. It would be nice if the AI's actions were a bit more plausible and convincing, but I guess that's simply not a priority for the devs of pretty much any strategy game. I mean you can actually set how much cheating the AI is allowed to do in the difficulty settings, because that's how you make the game more difficult. But it is fucking annoying to watch the AI make utterly stupid decisions with which it can only get away because it is cheating like a 13 year old CoD player. And the level of challenge is probably more than enough for the average customer. Making a game your money is better spent on other things that make the game look more AAA-ish, because that's what sells copies blah blah. Both on the world map and on the battle map. Like in all TW games and really in most strategy games the AI sucks. I think Attila was pretty good for a TW game, and Age of Charlemagne was even better.

Rome 2 vs atilla