Total War: ATTILA Reviews

Lacks optimization - as we know, but yes - great vanilla game, especially with the community patches e.g. Nova Attila, and great other mods!

If a zombie survival was a strategy game, but with the huns as zombies and the strategy was running after hun armies with them always outrunning you and spawning troops out of thin air

Total War: Attilla is a classic. It exudes this sense of the end times are coming. The Hun from the east sent by God to destroy everything you know. The use of revelation in its cut scenes linking the cavalry of the Hun as the horseman of the apocalypse is brilliant. The mini ice age that yes historically occurred 100 years later is used to also make the end game a real struggle for many factions including the dying western roman empire. And I for many years skipped this title it like a total numnuts. I'm glad I have it now at least!

I fear I played this a while back and loved it and I have a better PC now and the quality got worse. I constantly crash and freeze and bug out. The characters are also so blurry whenever there's more then 2000 troops would recommend if you have a 5000 dollar PC otherwise good luck. Really good game but I think its meant for windows 7 and windows 7 alone.

Still runs worse than it's older and newer total war brothers in the series. Barely making 20 FPS at any given moment.

Game is pretty unstable. I've played with overhaul mods that fundamentally change the game top to bottom. The result was by turn 7 (on incredibly good/lucky runs I could get to turn 80) the save files would be ruined and unable to be played. I did the logical thing and basically went vanilla plus a few very low level mods that just refine or add a mechanic. Game becomes unstable and would once again crash until the save file is unplayable. I'd get to turn 20 consistently and turn 60 at the best. I got rid of all mods and played pure vanilla with nothing. The game would start to crash at around turn 120. During this time, I'm installing, reinstalling, with only the specific mods I plan on using, I'm completely deleting all data with Atilla, I'm doing everything reddit is saying "fixed" their game from going into the programming itself to change values, to running to specific files to double check everything is where it should be, and I feel I gave a honest effort for someone who isn't as tech savvy as others, and without going the extra mile past what the devs cannot reasonably expect for a player to do on their own initiative. My computer is running Windows 11 with anti-cheat and generally a decade of updates from the PC world in general. Maybe, the solution is incredibly simple like needing to disable or roll back an update. All of this to say, I cannot recommend this game since even if I'm a 1% issue. If you buy this game and have the same issues as me, it will be well past the 2 hour time limit for a refund and result in you just throwing your money in a blender. Specific times the game would crash and in turn corrupt the save are only when I: started a battle, ended a battle, quick saved, saved, autosaved, alt-tabed (happened once unsure of the trigger), ended a turn, and a few times the start of a turn. Depending on my luck, I could reload a save and go 2-3 turns further. If I was unlucky, it would corrupt that save too and basically nuke a playthrough 3-4 hours.

Play it less like a traditional total war game but rather mostly an empire building game. Expansion is discouraged, probably why lots of people dislike this game.

hm game is fun but optimization and ai are horrendous this game only support single core cpu tho u need to setup for this again ai also sucks but game is fun

I want to so badly say this is a good game even a great one but man the bugs are something else. for an example im doing a legendary run for the huns and as you may know you cant manually save so no quick save or nothing pre battle which im good with but not so much when I run into bugs like this one, I go to initiate a battle and the buttons don't show up to start the fight or retreat or ANYTHING so now I need to force the game shut and relaunch and hope this is a one time bug (also lossing any actions/progress not saved before the last turns end). there are many bugs on this level of brokeness that I feel like im playing rome 2 release. This iteration is hands down one of my new favourite total wars I admittedly I slept on this one (because how buggy everyone said it was) but finally decided to give it a try hoping they had atleast tackled some of the major bugs (they didn't)! But I will say it has some really nice changes to some systems that do feel like an improvement (in some re-guards atleast compared to rome 2) but that lack of polish and fleshing out is what is keeping this game from being a Great game

Having been playing Attila Total War off and on for years; it is still challenging and enjoyable.