Creative Assembly reveals system requirements for Total War: Rome 2

Strategy game developer Creative Assembly has revealed the hardware requirements for its upcoming game Total War: Rome 2. According to Eurogamer, the company has earlier stated that it wants the game to be able to run on the same machines that could run the previous game in the title—Total War: Shogun 2. Going by the requirements, the game can also run on Windows XP.

• OS: XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
• Processor: 2GHz Intel dual-core processor/2.6GHz Intel single-core processor
• Memory: 2GB RAM
• Graphics: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 35GB HD space
• Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768

For a game as pretty-looking as this, we expected that a heftier rig would be needed

The newest game in the Total War series takes the action back to the same setting as the third game of the series—ancient Rome. The original Total War: Rome was when many considered the series to have come into its own, despite previous games in the series also receiving critical acclaim.

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Games in the Total War series are split into two parts: a civilization-esque giant "board game" where players and the AI take turns to do various things like improving cities and states, and a more traditional real-time strategy view where the game's gigantic battles take place.

Total War: Rome 2 is set to hit store shelves on September 3 and is available for pre-order on digital distribution service Steam for a hefty price tag of $59.99 (Rs 3,560 approx).