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Attila First Impressions

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Attila First Impressions As I did with Rome 2, I thought I�d post my early impressions of Attila before I do a full review. These impressions are based on 10 hours of play in which I completed the tutorial Prologue campaign, all of the Historical battles and several custom battles. I�ll talk about each in turn, and also a little about performance. Beginning with a defensive siege battle, the Prologue really hammers home the core theme of Attila � survival. As you would expect, it teaches you the basics of battle and campaign management before slowly expanding to include all of the new features of Attila including the Horde system.   I spent about 4 hours playing through this prologue which is mostly scripted, but does offer the player opportunities to experiment. The prologue is also where I hit my first bug. At one point it just wouldn�t progress to the next scripted sequence, forcing me to reload an earlier save. As a tutorial, it does its job and I have to say, some of the battl...