Total War Rome II: Capital Cities

Among all the settlements and cities to be found as you conquer your way across ROME II’s campaign map, five stand out as great wonders of engineering, seats of learning, and as the hearts of empires: Alexandria, Athens, Carthage, Babylon and Rome.
It’s only right that the battle maps for these mighty seats of ancient civilisation get the special treatment, so we’ve gone to town on making them the most intricate, stunning, authentic and of course epic cityscapes we’ve ever created.
These shots also show the kind of graphical glory the ROME II engine can achieve, with a huge range of environmental lighting variables, colossal amounts of detail, and high-end graphical techniques such as depth-of-field.

Babylon
Oldest city, cultural, thriving and vibrant, with 4000 years of existence. Ancient Capital of fragmented and destroyed the Persian Empire, the city continues with the same force and virtue of the great ancient empires that ruled the land and the rivers of Mesopotamia, which makes it a prize worthy of further expanding nations.


Athens
City-port with 2000 years of existence, the city of Athens was, is and will continue to be the pearl of the Aegean sea and the Greek world. Their story tells that the native people who lives there, was designed to be a center of more advanced philosophy and the most original artistic center, but also a warrior people, well trained and organized, either by land or by sea.


Alexandria
Alexandria, a city may be recent, but it inhabits the collision of two different worlds, which are respected and new civilization in a sea of ​​cultures on the rise. She knew by the Mediterranean's Bride, not a city it is in the Hellenism world, is more richer and influential than the heart of the domains of the Ptolemaic pharaohs. From there, concentrated many commercial fleets around the Mediterranean and more advanced knowledge of the ancient world, supported with a population so large and loyal.


Carthage
The first civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic. The city of Carthage is located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis. According to Greek historians, Carthage was founded by Phoenician colonists from Tyre under the leadership of legendary Queen Dido of Tyre. It became a large and rich city and is a major power in the Mediterranean. Uniting all the Phoenician colonies since 60 years ago, by the fall of Phoenicia on the army of Alexander the Great, and his death, Carthage is a meeting point of various cultures, both Hellenistic, as barbaric, creating an army of loyal marcenários ready fight the new homeland of the heirs of the Phoenicians.


Rome

Since the year 753 BC the city of Rome was populated by different people from all over Italy from the barbarians to the north and the Etruscans (people who ruled Rome as a tyrant kings), and citizens of the Greek colonies in the south and the Samnites (warrior people and rival of Rome, and their warfare techniques are used by the Romans), making it not only the largest city in Italy, but also the heart of the republic and more organized military that the world has ever known.