Steam users review bomb Total War: Rome 2 over female characters
Total War: Rome 2 has suffered a Steam review bombing run over women characters and a recent update - but it turns out the game is working as intended.
Creative Assembly's PC strategy game, which came out in 2013, saw hundreds of new negative Steam reviews this week over the frequency with which women generals show up in the game. Complaints over historical accuracy appear to have stemmed from an image, below, showing a raft of female generals in one person's game. A cropped version of this image was used by some to claim a recent patch forced players to use female generals in every faction of the game.
Responding on Steam in August, a woman community content editor reiterated Creative Assembly's position on the matter: "Total War games are historically authentic, not historically accurate - if having female units upsets you that much you can either mod them out or just not play. People saying they won't buy the game because there are too many women in it is fine with us - if that's their reason, we'd rather they didn't anyway."
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