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Understand: This is a very very unstable game with NO SUPPORT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 35 / 59
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game, as all have said, has all the hallmarks of being a near-perfect strategy and wargame. It remains a terribly disappointing option because of its frequency of crashes - don't believe me? check their forums: you will find hundreds of lost souls trying to find out how to make the game run - most often by chasing down obscure drivers from years past. SEGA support is non-existent - they neither know nor care about fixing your problem whatever it may be.

I run a dual-core 64-bit system with 1G of RAM and a 256mg video card. I can run any game made today. I purchased the new February 06 Gold Edition of this game - it includes all patches and updates and the expansion.

Crashes. every. single. time. A good test is to note right off if when playing the tutorial if youre mouse lags slightly behind normal. This is a sure sign that it will crash very soon. If going on line and postin gyour dxdiag file in a forum and praying that someone will help you sounds like your cup-of tea, then release the hounds.

I commend the game in it's visuals, game design, and the AI is wonderful, but No One should buy this game expecting it to work without a lot of work by the purchaser getting it to run.
And make no mistake: no single entity involved in creating this game is available in any way to help you.

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.

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).

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.

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.

It was okay. Watch the hype

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This review speaks to both Rome and Barbarian Invasion. There are some differences, but the gameplay is essentially the same.

I'm a long time fan of strategy war games going all the way back to the first Strategic Conquest game by Delta Tao. I love every flavor of Civilization, from Sid Meier's to Stardock, and games like Stronghold. So, I was looking forward to playing Rome because I thought it had elements of all of those classics. And it does. You have to build and maintain cities, raise armies and duke it out on the battlefield.

But it just didn't grab me. Not in the way those other games did. For one thing, I never could figure out what made one city a happy cash cow and another city a money pit full of pissed off plebes. It seemed to have more to do with population than with infrastructure or tax rates (certain buildings give moral bonuses; higher tax rates make people unhappy). It just seemed kind of random. The only way to conquer a city and not have a riot on your hands for ten terms seemed to be to enslave the population or exterminate them. Me, I don't even like to step on a Sim Ant when I can avoid it.

I played Rome: Total War through one time as the Romans and Barbarian Invasion through three times; once as the Saxons, once as the Romans and once as the Horde...actually I never finished the Horde game. I was just over it by that point.

So, as with most games, it's going depend on what the player enjoys and the sort of game they like to play as to whether or not Rome is for you. By this point, the game is old enough where you can find it fairly cheap on E-bay or Amazon, so it's worth checking out. I think part of my problem was reading all these rave reviews, I had big expectations that weren't quite satisfied. Hope you get more out of it.

Civilization meets real time tactical combat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 20
Date: March 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The AI isn't entirely challenging, but that is really true of all games. Until programmers can come up with truely great AI I will just have to keep giving games 4/5 and 9/10. This game is more a 9/10 than a 4/5 btw.

If anyone knows about an old game called Archon, this game is to Civilization what Archon was to Chess, it takes the basic Civilization game (capturing cities, expanding empire, building armies and upgrading cities) and adds a real-time combat element.

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.

Best World Domination Game Ever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game really is the ultimate world domination game, i have rarely seen anything that can compete with it. Its faults are few, but one of the most irritating things to me is when you send units to attack fleeing enemies, they automatically run behind the enemy and chase them off instead of taking the shortest path possible to cut them off and annihilate them. Diplomacy is also stupid. Otherwise, the graphics, the gameplay, the battles, the units, the multiplayer and custom game modes, and everything else is awesome.

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.

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