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Sluggish & not as much fun as TW: Medieval

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 17
Date: December 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is very difficult to control via mouse, even though my computer exceeds the system requirements by a long shot. There are times during battle when it's almost impossible to select a unit, because the mouse takes several seconds to move.

Very clunky, and a disappointment after Total War: Medieval.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Best total war game till date! Big improvements in unti animations, battle speeches from general, family tree etc.. pretty sweet!

I,m not a kid I am 18

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Rome total war is awsome. I play the game for hours, and never get board. First of all their is the campain map to position your men anywhere you want to, or surronding the enemy so you can have large numbers of reinforcments. One of the things that is fun to do is have your allie fight a battle with you then let your allie get all of his men killed so you can go in and just defeat what is left of the enemy. Battles are very realistic and the graphics are awsome. I do not think their are any down points to the game. If you are a serious gamer than you should buy the game. It is worth two times what the price is for it. It is a most most most buy game.

Excellent addition to Total War Universe

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Rome Total War is a further evolution of the Total War game series. You build buildings over time which allow you to train better military units and evolve better trade systems. The addition of the Roman senate and more charater abilities adds more detail to the game than previous versions. The battlefield play is great with lots of options for your various units while keeping the generalship relatively simple. You will need a good video card however so check out the total war website for recommended cards before getting the game.

I'm on a Power-Trip!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have played a lot of games over the years and this is one of the best. If you want the feeling of simulated power try forming Roman legions and leading them into battle. A good game guide is the book by Julius Caesar "The Conquest of Gaul".

ROME TOTAL WAR ROCKS!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

all of the 5 stars u read for this game review are right.i wouldn't give this game anything short of a five. the gameplay is ausom and the way to control youre units is excellent. i may not be one of those people who have played rts games for years but im a HUGE fan of Rts's. All i play is rts and rpgs and this is probably the best out of over a hundred others ive played. what really wowed me was how detailed the main campaing was set up. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. anything u could possibly think that would happen will happen. And the variaty of factions was really good to. But the one thing should have is over the requirement of prosser speed like around 3.0 or 2.5 and take it from me who is running this on a dell laptop with over 3.0 prosser speed and a nvidia geforce 5200 MAKE SURE U HAVE A HIGH GRAPHICS CARD or just enough to get by. But if we could rate over 5 i would give it a 100 but make sure your a serious rts fan. HAVE FUN!

Rome: Total War is a great game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a great advance in historical war gaming but it falls just short of perfection. The game is actually two games in one. The single player campaign allows you to play one of three Roman families, Julii, Scipii or Brutii. You initially have control of a few cities and some military units with Generals to lead them. You win the campaign through diplomacy, espionage and military conquest. The goal is to expand and eventually gain control of the Roman Empire. Once you finish one of the three Roman campaigns, several other Campaigns, such as those of Carthage, Gaul and Greece, are unlocked. The second game is actually a sub game where you get to command your army on the battlefield, in 3D and in real-time. Each battle during the single player campaign can be decided instantly or you can elect to command the battle yourself in Real-time. The RTS battle mode is only mode you can currently play in multiplayer and that is one area where I was disappointed. I would have preferred some method of playing a campaign against human opponents since the AI isn't as challenging in this area. On the default difficulty for my first campaign, I had over 220 wins to 10 losses. This was without doing a lot of loading saved games or using cheats.

Rome: Total War

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 27
Date: April 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In case you're puzzled by the disparity in reviews, let me make things clear for you. There is a bug in the AI which many people on several Rome: Total War messageboards feel should not be there. This is fine, but they feel that because that the Creative Assembly is not going to fix the bug any time soon, they have decided to embark on various smear campaigns such as the one you see here in the review section. (The thread in which this was organized can be found here: http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=45897) Supposedly their exceedingly poorly-thought out objective is to pressure the Creative Assembly into fixing the bug by, in effect, misleading prospective buyers.

That said, there are indeed some bugs in the artificial intelligence of the game, but frankly there isn't a game in the real-time strategy genre that doesn't have probelems with the AI, especially 5 months after its release. As long as you're a rational person and not whipped up into a frenzy like the aforementioned people are, you will be able to overlook the bugs in the AI. They're not as noticeable as they would have you think.

But the pros of this game far surpass all cons. There are few games out there that give this much detail to historical accuracy. The units of the Roman faction, for example, are divided into "pre-Marian", and "Post-Marian" units, referring to the reforms of the Roman army into a proffesional fighting force by Gaius Marius in the late 2nd century BC. the Pre-Marian units are available early on in the game, and the Post-Marian units are available after the Marian reforms, which is set to occur usually sometime in the 2nd century BC. Playing as one of the three Roman factions, your objective is to get your generals elected to the Senate, conquer 50 provinces, gain popularity with the plebians, and eventually conquer Rome and destroy the other two Roman factions. You can also play as several other factions, and conquer the Ptolemaic Dynasty as the Seleucids (or vice-versa), trample the Romans with war elephants as the Carthaginians, and recapture Greece from the Macedonian kings as the Greek city-states. There are also lesser-known factions in Rome: Total War, such as the Dacians, the Armenians, the Pontiacs, and the Numidians.

In RTW, strategy is key, and this is what seperates it from most other games in its genre, whos battles mainly consist of throwing units against each other and hoping for the best. Flanking maneuvers factor heavily in the outcome of a battle, and a good cavalry force can not only rout an entire army, but also kill nearly every single one of the fleeing enemies. Hellenized civilizations have the ability to train hoplites and pikemen, whos powerful phalanx formations are virtually impenetrable from the front, but are extremely weak in the back, thus it becomes important for their armies to defend their weak rears. Scythed chariots and war elephants are unparalleled infantry killers, but are liable to run amok and kill your own troops if they are left in the fray for too long!

The overall turn-based portion of the game that is the trademark of the Total War series has been greatly improved over the previous two games. Whereas previously the campaign map looked something like a Risk board, the map of Rome: Total war is fully 3d, with soldiers representing armies littered across the map. It is from this map that you make money, field armies, initiate sieges, and improve your cities. Speaking of sieges, in Rome: Total War they are wonderfully complex operations. Several breaches in the walls are nescessary to take out the more heavily garrisoned, cities, although with increasingly fortified walls, ranging from small palisades to epic stone walls, assaulting the defenses bcomes a less and less viable option. In such cases it might be a better idea to maintain the siege for several turns in an attemtp to either starve the city into submission or force the defenders in fighting a battle on equal ground outside the walls of the city.

Overall, Rome: Total War is by far the best strategy game I've EVER played, hands down. If not for a few AI issues, this game would be perfect in every way.

Overall Amazing Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: May 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Pros: Excellent graphics, generally accurate units, tactics, etc... The mix of turn-based and RTS makes for the best type of strategy game around, no competition. Lots of options for play, different strategies, units, buildings.

Cons: AI could be more intellengt and more challenging, some unit problems but almost all have been fixed with patches, could use more options with diplomacy.

Garbage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just bought 3 coasters. So, ZERO stars, really! Althought I have more than enough in terms of system requirements , 24 vs 16 Sound Card, 1429 vs 1200 CD, etc, it will NOT play past the beginning of the 1st tutorial battle. Believe me, my PC is NOT loaded with all kinds of space wasting junk. There's no other game on my PC. I uninstalled and re-installed it yet it STILL won't go past the tutorial before crashing to desktop. I will NEVER buy another game by this company again. PERIOD. If there was an "I want my money back" star system, I'd give it 5. Perhaps one way to not rip off consumers would be to highlight the teeny little note on the bottom of the box stating that anti-copying technology might (yeah) make this game uncompatible with some disc and video drivers.

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