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great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

MY 15 YEAR OLD SON LOVES THIS GAME AND I FEEL LIKE HE IS LEARNING A BIT OF HISTORY TOO

Birthday Delight

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game, along with Battlefield 1942 Complete, were purchased for my 12 yeara old son ( per his request) for his birthday.

Since their receipt, All he tells me is that he loves the game and how he is able to play it and use his own facilities to determine the out come.

He still is learning how to use this game to it's fulles potential, and I might recommend it for a little older audience. But, he loves it.

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game keeps me playing. I can play as different factions during the time that Rome was gaining power through the world. I enjoy the game because it has everything I want to do such as building & destroying cities and learning and applying new strategies. I am currently playing and enjoying the game right now.

Rome Total War delivers one of the deepest, most addicting stradegy games of all time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I fell in love with Rome: Total War the first minute I heard about. Four years later I still play and enjoy the game.

Rome Total War - I would have to say this ranks among the top PC games of all time. When you start the game you are given the choice of one of the three Roman Factions. As you play the game and conquer factons, you unlock those factions to be played in campaign mode. I would have to say that the campaign mode is extremely deep, and may cause you many sleepless nights. As you play with your Roman faction, you are assigned missions by the Senate to go and conquer certain territories or blockade certain ports. Of course you are given discretion in the ability to conquer other territories or if you just don't want to listen to the Senate at all. Whenever you fight a battle you enter the battle map. This is what separates the Total War series from Civilization. Rome: Total War itself looks great with incredible graphics and beatiful settings. My favorite part of the battles is that the maps are accurate of your location on the campaign map. If you are by the sea, you will see the body of water in the same direction relative to your army as it was on the campaign map. The combination of the battle map and the campaign map (a civilization style map) is what hooks you to the game. You're able to control what happens in battles. In other games, if your army is smaller, you lose. What's great about Rome Total War is that you may use stradegy in the most bleak situtations to come out victorious. I played battles where my army was outnumbered 5:1 as I defended a city where I was able to drive the enemy away. Eventually you will reach the peak of the mountain as you conquer Rome and lead all the factions. What's great is that once you finish a campaign (which will take a long time to begin with), you can play again with a different Roman Faction or another faction which you conquered. I have only a couple criticisms of the game. My first is that all that all the soldiers within each unit look exactly alike. Thankfully, there are many different soldier types to adress this issue. Secondly, in the battles, your soldiers repeat a couple motions over and over. It becomes repetitive. Thankfully this issue was resolved in medieval total war. My last complaint was that you had no control over naval battles. When the odds in a battle were close to 1:1, it was simply a flip of the coin who won. All in all, Rome: Total War will give you hours and hours of gameplay, which you will probably never get bored of.

Barbarian Invasion - I'll make this one short and sweet. Barbarian Invasion was a good expansion, but a little disappointing. The game shifts to the period towards the end of the Roman Empire, as it is divided between the East and West. This time you are given the ablity to play as one of the two Roman factions (Eastern and Western) or several other barbarian factions such as the Franks or Safavids. When I got the expansion, I decided to try something new and play with a barbarian faction. Simply to say, it soon became a frustrating experience as many of my settlements revolted and my money was going down the drain. Barbarian Invasions is much more diffucult than the original game, with an added complication in religion. The new night battles are cool, but they aren't enough to overcome the frustration on the campaign map. Chances are you'll probably be taking this disc out and putting in the original Rome: Total War.

To simply put it I gave this game five stars mostly because of the original game. The expansion set will provide a nice little diversion but is not nearly as addicting as the original. I also highly recommend Medieval II: Total War.

Battles Are a Thing of Beauty

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The battlemaps in this game are truly a thing of beauty, from the interesting scenery, to the pageantry of the colorful massed formations, to the riveting, brutal action of the hand-to-hand engagements when viewed from close up. I confess to mostly having played Barbarian Invasion, as I find that period of history most interesting. The campaign play has a lot of compromises to allow for playability, but I enjoy especially keeping track of my 'family', and its additions and tragedies along the way. It would be nice if there were more detail to go with this feature, and a way to keep track of individual character's accomplishments (and failures) that is easily accessible, but overall, my complaints are far outweighed by the enjoyment this game has provided.
If I could make one more suggestion, it would be immensely fun if players could be members of the same faction, allowing for some interesting intrigue in seeking favor and the throne.

Vista compatible? Please help!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I would love to purchase this game but I'm not sure if this will work with Windows Vista? Can somebody please let me know, and if it's not compatible, can you please tell me how can I make it work? I'm a beginner when it comes to PC games so if you can please explain as simple as possible. Much appreciated.

Excellent game with modest system requirements

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought Medieval II: Total War, which is a great game but won't run on my laptop. I then tried Medieval: Total War, but it was a little too outdated and somewhat simplistic. Rome: Total war has almost all of the great features of version II, but will run on older machines. It's quite fun, with a lot of historical information as well.

Pretty Good.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This kept me engaged for about 20 hours total. Then I got bored with it.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great battles, lots of armies to chose from, a good game over all

Fast delivery. A must have for the game strategist.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a turn based game were the player captures cities on a map of ancient Europe. Player must manage the economics of each city that is owned, by building structures and taxing the citizens. Military units must be created on the genre of ancient Roman times for the defense of cities and expansion of the players empire. The highlight of this game is the management of unit formations on the battlefield. Players can choose to manage units on the battlefield or let the computer automatically calculate the results. Player management is best when the odds are equal to high against success.

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