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Fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played a lot of strategy games and this is simply the best. Rome Total War is fantastic. The Barbarian Invasion expansion adds a wrinkle where an entire nation can pack up and move making every game vastly different from the last.

Can't recommend this strongly enough.

Very good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For me Total War Series is the best in strategic battles and Rome Total War is not an exception.

You begin with 2 or 3 cities and you have to conquer about 55 (in short campaign only about 25). The game begins in 3º century BC, if you play with roman factions you have lots of troops avalaible and new troops after Mario reforms (and historic event that occurs randomly).

The only bad point is that you can not play with no roman factions until you win a campaign.

"Barbarian Invasion" is a highly recommendable extension. If you have played Rome, it will surprise because you will have to play in a very different way.

If you play with Roman factions, you must avoid the fall of the Empire. You have new troops, and a weak empire (many cities, but few roads and ports).

However, if you play with a barbarian faction you will have yo play in a very different way. Starting with almost no cities, you will have to settle your people in the Roman Empire fighting against Rome and other Barbars.

Great value for money

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Rome is an excellent game, one of the few which I like to play again and again. And for its current price, it's a must-have.

Excellent strategy game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun and you can certainly play it for many hours. I do get a bit tired of constantly fighting rebels and revolts but an excellent upgrade from previous games in the series.

Excellent game, so-so packaging

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: February 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well you can read the other reviews for all the awesomeness that is RTW. I just want to say that the packaging for this Sega version sucks. It doesn't even provide a case for the CDs, they're in paper sleeves. Ugh. Your CDKEY is on a little slip of paper, floating around the box (there's no cd case to have it stamped on). Horrible presentation.

The game on the other hand is superb, especially the 3rd party mod Rome: Total Realism. If you ever get bored with RTW, check out RTR. It provides a more historically accurate map and faction breakdown. Not to mention regional units, which are only available for recruitment from particular regions (for historical accuracy).

One of my all time favorites!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game never ceases to be fun...can't even count the number of times I've re-installed! A classic that will never leave my library.

And as soon as my computer is updated I'm sure I'll be playing Medieval II!

Funer than I thought

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Even though the battles and the campaigns are hard, it's still really fun and joyful. The part you would like the most is campaigning and using good strategies to win. The hardest part of the campaign is the financing. I also learned a lot about Roman history. You will rate this computer game the best !!!

Great Game - Campaign is a bit long

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Overall, Rome Total War rocks. I'm a big Civ fan but I also like to play Warcraft. Rome Total War combines these well. The only negative is the campaign game takes a really long time (30+ hours) to play.

Too Buggy to Buy Save Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: October 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Rome Total War is a fun and very challanging game but has too many software bugs in its current version 1.3 and on up to be consider a buy. It is famous for its Crash to Desktop or CTD in the middle of a game. Save you money until a bug free version comes out on a new Romam war game is produced by someone who knows what they are doing. Too bad but that the way the CD spins.

Fun overall but can't control armies larger than 7-800 men

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

On the box art of this game you see armies containing thousands of troops besieging city walls defended by thousands of troops. Unfortunately the actual game does not have this capability, even on the highest difficulty. In the main campaigns--there are 3 you can choose from, you have to play many hours before you can control armies larger than 2-300 men. Only towards the end of the campaign can you control more than 600 troops. If you attack a city with more than this limit, you will find yourself with an A.I. controlled "allied" army fighting next to your 2-300 troops. So epic battles are not really possible, just skirmishes.

This is unrealistic given that a typical roman legion was about 5000 men. As PCs get faster one should have the option of using any size army one can amass. Age of empires had this option. Perhaps there is some way to do this with RTW, a hack or add-on or whatever but I could not find it.

Since this game is several years old, being able to have 10-20,000 man armies would more than make up for the dated graphics. I liked the game very much but was disappointed at not being able to have battles anything close to that portrayed on the box.

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