The people in charge of hyping the new PC game Total War: Rome II keep exploiting our weakness for absurdly large, detailed screenshots—screenshots that could get their game mistaken for the most violent Where’s Waldo ever.
Their new shot today is 30000×4087 and weighs in at a mere 80MB. It’s not quite as gargantuan as their last one, but it’s big nonetheless. Download it from this official page
It is a truly impressive thing, both in its scale and in the horrors it manages to hide.
Poor guy.
Obviously, the Creative Assembly’s real-time strategy game is never going to look quite like this screenshot, but to get the game running this September on your rig and normal-sized monitors, make sure you can meet the official minimum/recommended specs.
Minimum:
OS: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz 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: 35 GB HD space
Screen Resolution: 1024×768
Recommended:
OS: Windows 7 / Windows 8
Processor:2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics:1024 MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.
DirectX:11
Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
Screen Resolution: 1920×1080
