Just to stick 2 fingers up at all of you knocking Rome 2, its probably the closest to the original Rome/early series games than any since Empire so not something to really be sniffed at.... yes yes problems..ai oh the horror.. errmm the ENTIRE franchise has suffered from that & to some extent worse than this so nothing new. Also lets add the money grabbing Sega into the mix, have we seen something similar to this earlier this year? oh yeah Aliens Colonial Marines..(Sure Gearbox as well) but Sega have their hands firmly in CA's pocket & are pulling a lot of strings there no doubt, including false advertising & in my own opinion are responsible for the DLC frenzy TW games have become. I wouldnt be surprised that the game WAS in a far better state at some stage but them being forced to pull parts out for dlc an then patching it back for release. Just a thought.. Anyways.. We just live in an age where people fart and move on so quickly that nobody stands a chance anymore, the audience so fickle that 1 misplaced comment is unforgiveable. Gamers just need to relax, is Rome 2 perfect? No.. but is it fun?. yep so thats mission accomplished then unless your looking for something else? & if you say Crusader Kings 2 then if your looking for a medieval marriage simulator then why play TW games anyway:/ As for disappointing ive gotta say Dead Island Riptide as the biggest pile of doo this year..buggy (yes worse than Rome 2) short (less than half the size of the orig) a real mess of a release and none of the after sales comms that CA provided. Deep Silver tsk tsk..