Get ready: Total War: Rome II system requirements

Plus a ludicrous panorama

Creative Assembly has put out the system requirements for Total War: Rome II, a game that’s been a long time coming and one that will devour many an evening come September.

• 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

Perhaps more notably, there’s from the Battle of the Nile that does a tremendous job of capturing the sheer scale at play in Rome II. Seriously, this thing is 30000×4087. Are they … are they allowed to do that?