'If having female units upsets you that much you can either mod them out or just not play.' 'As has been said previously: Total War games are historically authentic, not historically accurate,' they wrote. It's not clear what specifically started the uproar: Questions about female generals date back to March but it didn't seem to really gain traction until mid-August, with a screen courtesy of a Steam user named Erick showing five out of eight 'Available Generals' as women, followed by predictable complaints about 'historical accuracy.' Around the same time, a Patriarchy Mod that purports to reduce the percentage chance of female politicians and general appearing in the game turned up on the Steam Workshop.Įventually, a Creative Assembly developer declared the original thread on the topic ' a mess' and locked it. It's a review bombing, of course, and the reason (equally of course) is women, specifically a claim that the recent free Ancestral update dramatically increased the likelihood of generals in the game being female. Yet over the past couple of days, more than 660 reviews have rated it 'overwhelmingly negative.' What could have so suddenly and dramatically reversed the fortunes of a five-year-old strategy game that's still in the thick of the Steam Top 100? Creative Assembly's historical strategy game Total War: Rome 2 came out in September 2013, and in the five years since it's notched more than 21,000 user reviews on Steam adding up to a 'mostly positive' overall rating.

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