Gamers can try out solid content created by the community

Sep 15, 2014 08:40 GMT  ·  By

Video game developer The Creative Assembly announces that it has concluded the process for the first edition of the Total War: Rome II modding awards, with the winners representing the best of the community-created modifications for the strategy title.

According to an official forum post and a Twitch stream, the best mods are:

Best Unit Mod – ChampLoo Gold Unit Compilation, with Radious Unit Pack: Rise of an Empire as a runner-up

Best Overhaul – Divide Et Impera, while Constantine – Rise of Christianity is in second place

Most Innovative – Sell Your Slaves, with Hellbent Traits, Talents and Toadies as a runner-up

Best Graphical – GEM is the winner, and Authentic Ancient World is the runner-up

Players’ Choice – Divide Et Impera, with Radious in second place

CA Legacy – Europa Barbarorum, and The Great War as the runner-up

The Creative Assembly thanks all those who have voted for their favorite mod for Total War: Rome II and urges them to keep creating content that can enhance the core game experience.

Traditionally, the series has long attracted resourceful players who have taken the core mechanics and then changed how they worked in order to improve realism or in order to tackle other periods of the history in other universes, like Warhammer 40,000 or Middle-earth.

The best mod ever created for the series is Europa Barbarorum, which has poured a lot of research into historical elements and has delivered an experience which completely transforms the first Rome: Total War.

Emperor Edition is coming

At the moment, the core team at The Creative Assembly is preparing to launch the Emperor Edition for Total War: Rome II, which is designed to incorporate all the updates and the free downloadable content that was ever launched for the title and will be offered for free to all users.

The new package will also contain a new Imperator Augustus single-player campaign, which will allow gamers to select from 10 factions that are fighting for power after the assassination of Julius Caesar.

The team is promising improved political mechanics, fixes for all the main features, and a new system for buildings that makes the experience more realistic.

The Creative Assembly also announces that it is getting ready to reveal another Total War project before the end of the month.

This probably means that the page of updates for Total War: Rome II will decline and that mods will become even more important for the community.