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This Game Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: February 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game in the world. But it would take hours to tell you all the good points so here are some of them: Unlike most other games in RTW soldiers actually fight better the more experence they have. Go figure you never would have known that with a diffrent game. And another good part your soldiers don't have a little health bar over their head like in other games because real soldiers wouldn't. Go figure again you would have thought they did from other games. The makers don't waste time writing stuff on the game feature list that you wouldn't already know, They don't put stuff like:
-Our game has COLOR
They put what you have to know before you buy it.
In the game you can manage settelments very easily. In battles and not in battles graphics are amazing. What you see on the campain map is what you see in the battle for instance if you attack a enemy on a river the battle will be at a river.
There is a large selection of diffrent units for every empire, and around ten diffrent empires, who all fight differently than another. Don't listen to the bad reviews of people who lie about how bad it is they hade one crash and they say they have twenty. Maybe if they didn't scratch their cd so much that you can almost see through it(I have done that) it would work(Because it doesn't once you do) You don't have to take my oppinon for it buy it yourself and you will like it too. It is a great game for serious gamers.

Initially adictive but quickly becomes boring and repetitive

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are very good but the game frequently crashes (once every 2-3 hours) even with a good system, maintream graphic and sound cards, Windows XP and the latest drivers. Luckily there is an autosave feature so you only lose progress since your last turn. Although the game is initially interesting and adictive, it quickly becomes very repetitive, boring and slow. The battles start to feel pretty much the same. The AI is weak - especially for your allies and enemies in battle and some of the diplomacy.

you will be involved

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

what can i say that haven't been said already? well, I may have sth you haven't heard, read on.

good:
visual is superb.
turn based gives you time to actually think of a strategy, so many other games are won by those who can move the mouse fastest.
involve you in every aspect of war without conflict in style.
long campaign that has history in it.

bad:
each unit is a 3D by itself that means huge processing! or is that a good thing, I'm confused.
some will say that babysit each soldier sucks, I would kinda agree if you start playing too much.

I recommend it if you are ready for something new, if you are still stuck in those RTS where you move your mouse rather than your brain, you may skip it. Good price on amazon, referred by www.whosave.com

The Realism makes this game Addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: March 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm playing this game EVERY free waking hour I have & my Partner's started complaining.

At first I found playing the Battles confusing as moving large bodies of men in co-ordination wasn't easy.

But after sufficient "Whoopings" I found out how to use the different screens & troop Info indicators to move from being the Whoopee to the Whooper!

Now i kick (Gaul/Spanish/Greek/etc) A$$

But it's the Historic Detail that holds me compelled to the screen. i took a town which had the Plague. My army got it & gave it to the navy. When i took the next town, it got the plague! i built sewers AND Bathhouses but the plague got worse!

Just like in real life, when Roman armies went to far off places they met diseases which infected them & they took it (& the plunder & the slaves) back to Rome.

The game isn't Perfect, nothing made by Man is! F'instance my Bowmen constantly shoot their own men in the back (well just like RL then!) & sometimes the AI does the opposite of what's sensible, like when the Besiegers come out to attack, & they lose bigtime, the AI refuses to capture the town/city THAT move, but i've played a lot worse believe me!!

I'd like the next upgrade to add Naval battles to the manual resolve mix & I'd to be able to get off one boat & climb into another the same go (like I'd expect an Army to be able to do within a six month period). I also want to be able to Exterminate my Revolting citizens whenever I want.

I also want to have "Leaders with Hair" - but that's just personal!!

Still lots of bugs even with all the current patches

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of the first MTW so I picked up Rome TW. I will say the game's graphics are great and the game is fun while it works. There are just too many bugs in this game that cause crashes! The two most common are corrupted saved games and "events" that cause the game to crash. It seems that for whatever reason saved games may corrupt and won't load. This one isn't that big of a deal just go back and replay from the last save. The second one is more problematic. It seems during the course of the game a event may cause a crash and according to Activision's Tech Support the only way to avoid the crash is to first figure out what is causing the crash and try to avoid the event. For example, a few of the events that have caused crashes for me have been battles, spies moving into cities and ships moving from one point to the other. To avoid the event you have to start from a earlier saved game and try to avoid the "event." This is easy if it is the player's army causing the event but if it is a computer run unit causing the "event" then you may have to replay 4 or 5 years (8 to 10 turns). One example, I finally figured out that the computer moving a spy into one of my cities was causing a crash. I could not kill the spy because he was high level so I had to keep replaying a 4 year time frame over and over. If these events occured every now and then it wouldn't be a issue but now I'm getting these event caused crashes about every 5 years. I finally had enough and just stopped playing.

p.s.

I may try some of the mods that are available because I heard they are more stable.

Flawed, but still very good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: August 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To get to the point: this game is flawed but still very good.
I agree with many people here that this game is bugged, but not that it should not be bought.

My reasons for this statement:
1 You can work around 85% of the bugs with a little bit of good will.
2 The AI is indeed not very hard to beat in the imperial campaigns, but on the other hand the MP option and the historical battles are hard.

(I do hope they will solve the 2 above mentioned problems in the Rome : Total War , Barbarion invasion expansion pack)

I do think that Activision could be much more helpfull and make a patch that solves most bugs. Exemple: if you order many units inside a city to move to a position where they do not have enough room to form their line they go outside the settlement and slowly come back in while being shot at and being killed (very very frustrating).

But the fact remains that this game is one of the most realistic and fun strategy games I have ever played despite it's bugs.

Any RTS fan should buy this game.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Rome Total War is a fantastic game and playing it will provide hours of fun. Both the battles and resource management are strategically challenging. The graphics are clear and realistic and the ties to actual history are interesting. Best strategy game that I have every played.

Complicated but Entertaining

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought thsi game thinking that it would be similar to Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. It is not.You will spend a long time figuring out how the game works, how to manage your territories and troops. You have to do a lot of reading and playing but at the end is worth it.It has two modes to settle the battles and you choose between "lazy"(automatic) or "geek"(manual) mode which makes the game easier and faster to play if you dont want to read anything.you can also set the automanage mode to manage your resources.I love this game

What a Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First things first:
1. In order to truly enjoy this game you have to complete the full campaign with one of the Roman Factions
2. This game needs to be played at a minimum on the hard level to actually be a challenge.
3. If you like this type of strategy game you will find yourself spending way to much time trying to hear the word "Victory" over and over again.

Many people complain about the battle speed being too fast or having to micromanage or wanting to micromanage your units. To me this is makes the battle more realistic. It is true that on the hard and very hard levels the computer-controlled units can move faster than the player controlled units. This prevents you from being able to micromanage. The player-controlled units will react to another enemy unit that comes near them even if they aren't given orders to do anything. This is where the strategy comes into play. You have a chance to pick where you will fight and how you will arrange the units. Then you make as many minor changes as possible before the enemy is upon you. Finally in the heat of the battle you only control your high value units in an attempt to flank or break the will of the enemy. This seems very realistic to me and makes the battles a real challenge in the hard and very hard levels.

There are some flaws with the AI, but when you take into account how encompassing this game actually is, I can hardly find fault with a couple of glitches. A couple of things that could be fixed easily with a patch would be to stop the computer's creation of hundreds of naval assets at the cost of its armies, the second would be to tweak the population happiness so that you didn't end up having to retake the same town again and again until you had reduced the population to a size your army can control.

No matter what the glitches, this is a really great game that you won't be able to win and forget about quickly. (10-20 hours seems to be the most you can get out of a lot of the new games on the market.) Once you are done with the Roman Faction requirement you unlock some pretty neat factions that don't have to bend to the will of or destroy the senate to continue playing. I can't wait to see where the Total War serries takes us next!

Excellent Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a fan of both the Civilization Series and Warcraft and very much enjoy this game. You get both the city / empire building along with great real time battles. Graphics aren't amazing, but that's not normally what I'm looking for in a strategy anyway.

Just be sure you do have a good video card for this. Without one it will run like dirt.

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