I haven’t played either of the previous mods, but the screenshots for Napoleonic Total War 2 (NTW2) looked truly beautiful. With members from around the world they have already produced Napoleonic Total War and American Total War, both mods for Medieval: Total War, so they are obviously capable of finishing what they start. The Lordz Modding Collective is one such group.
Happily, these are often the games that we, the gaming community, also want to play. Operating without the financial and time constraints of commercial operations, groups of committed, passionate and talented people invest time and effort to produce the games they really want to play. Although many of these sink without trace in the planning stage, some do get completed and they can provide a genuine antidote to the increasingly anodyne fare offered by some professional developers. Īs the computer games industry scrabbles around desperately trying to find something, anything, that will sell, we’re seeing more and more specialised, fan-developed mods and games. So, I was delighted when I saw that a group calling themselves the Lordz Modding Collective were working on a free Napoleonic mod for Rome : Total war (RTW). Few have managed both and none have provided a truly satisfactory simulation of this period of military history. In addition to reading more books than I can remember I have played pretty much every computer game dealing with this era since the 1993 MicroProse effort Fields of Glory. I’ve always been fascinated by the Napoleonic period. To test the theory I downloaded and played a recent free mod for the Creative Assembly’s excellent Rome : Total War. So when we see a free game offered for download, we assume that it’ll be half finished buggy code that’ll bring our machine to its knees and drive us insane with frustration. I think most us tend to make a similar connection at some level. And conversely, anything free, well, wasn’t worth very much. According to his way of thinking, an expensive item was a good item.
My father often said, “you get nothing for nothing.” Usually when he was trying to justify the purchase of some expensive bit of kit for his garden. Napoleonic Total War II – Game Review (PC) By Steve MacGregor
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