Why I buy this one ?
- Build your empire across the Roman world through diplomacy and war
- Total War engine creates spectacular, cinematic graphics
- Epic real-time battles with up to 10,000 3D units on screen at once
- Fun for novice or expert gamers, includes tutorial
- Play online with up to 8 friends

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What our customer's say!

"One of the greatest strategy games of all time.", There's no reason for me to repeat the other reviews. I hesitated to get this game because I knew of its addiction value, and boy did I become addicted. I always want to play "just one more turn." I really dig Roman history and this game sends you there. Buy this game; you will not be disappointed. It's time to attack Carthage for the Senate, and the glory of Rome!

"Endless Excitement", Rome: Total War has to be the most engaging strategy game for PC ever. By allowing players to engage in battles that directly influence what is happening on the campaign map, and manuever on the campaign map in ways that impact battles, it is an incredibly well thought out game. The battles are always different - and always exciting. If you enjoy any type of strategy games, or even are just a casual gamer in it for the battles, this game earns five stars.

"a guilty pleasure", Ok, I'm admitting it, I have played this game off and on for about 2 years now. It has some bugs like they all do, some are pretty terrible as they all are. But, hey, the parts that work make this an interesting strategy game. Some of the speaches given before the battles are hilarious, and many are informative - not a bad idea to give them a listen.

Each Roman family (there are 3 families, you get to try one per campaign) has it's own turf to conquer to start with, and so also different enemies. Here is my main complaint about the game... some battles cannot be won even with seeming overwhelming odds, I suppose that sort of thing did happen, but not like you'll see it happen here with the Parthia, Iberia, and Carthage.

Battles, initiative, and strategy, are only a part of this game. The building and maintenance of cities, roads, and ports are hugely important. The types of troops and transport you can create, as well as your ability to trade to support your towns and legions, is a bit tightly constrtained, but works well in the bigger play of the game. Advice is available from talking heads in the game screen if you want, and the frequency or detail of advice is selectable... this advice is also available during battles.

You also can create and use diplomats to negotiate with friend and foe alike for trade, creating alliances, asking for help, demanding supplication.

After a point you can also create spies and sabateurs for intelligence gathering and monkey wrenching friend and foe alike - just don't get caught! Also remember they can and will do the same to you!

The size of the armies, camera orientaion and motion, and screen image detail are also selectable. Just remember you can only select and order what you can see on the screen unless you use the auto pilot function.

The fleets and sea battles are a bit lackluster, but possibly not as bad as it really was, and you can somewhat reasonably transport invading armies, blockade, defend ports and sea trade routes.

So there is a lot going on in this game and the diversity of tasks and decision making can seem daunting - but that is what I find a huge plus.

After playing all families many times, with all the bugs, I am still a player of this game, and have used it to help teach my kid about ancient kingdoms, peoples, weapons, mobility, strategy and tactics.

And there is nothing like, after conquering the known world, that triumphant walk through the senate, their palms of victory waving to the fanfare, you are now the ruler of it all !

"Relive the glories of the Roman Empire", Rome Total War (RTW) is one of the greatest games I have ever played. RTW incorporates an in-depth strategic empire building experience with nerve racking amazing tactical combat. The best elements of the previous versions (Shogun and Medieval Total War) are enhanced and expanded.

The province management has been improved so each is like a small economy. The population growth is complex and is effected by everything from overcrowding and disease to taxes and food supply. Money management is an essential part of the game and makes this a true strategy that requires careful judgment and planning not just mindless unit training. Sea trade has been modified a limited amount of trade routes and allows blockading specific ports and does not require ships on every part of the ocean to trade between cities.

The Roman senate is an interesting addition to the game. It changes all the rules and makes politics more difficult. The senate also makes requests of your fraction for the better of Rome, but necessarily you. I like it better than the Catholic Church affect on Medieval Total War.

In the battle map you will find the same great gameplay. Commanders are still very important and morale is more fragile than before. Tactics will have to change to meet new challenges. The sound of battle is even more intense and cavalry charges actually causes them victims to be tossed around. Another improvement is the movement of armies on the campaign map. It is no longer just move from one province to the next. You can now maneuver around the province to ambush armies and attack from multiple angles similar to Knights of Honor. Field of vision is now more important. Armies can hide in woods on the campaign map and troops can hide in different types of terrains in the tactical map.

I could go into more details, but suffice it to say this is a great game. It is a step above and beyond Medieval Total War and beats all the others.


"Pity", Very nice game. Super Idea. Great graphics. More than I could imagine about a PC game, until I started to play it. Unfortunately sometime after you install you'll face some problems of performance. After playing for 2 or 3 rounds it became very hard to play, slowing down considerably, becoming choppy, answering with delay to every command. A pity.

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"Outstanding!", Wow! This game is so cool! I love going on the Imperial campaign and sieging settlements and recruiting armies. The battles are amazing too. I like sending in my cavalry and ambushing the enemies. You can make enormous armies and you learn which are the best soldiers to use and train in different situations.
I am 9 and I found it quite easy to get into. I would recommend it for anyone age 9 and upwards.

"Still lots of bugs even with all the current patches", 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.


"I Came, I Saw, I Was Conquered, I Was Sold", Rome: Total War is one of those games where you like it because of it's huge amount of good content, but overall the gameplay doesn't quite deliver. Rome: Total War will draw you in with it's deep level of troop recruitment and city development, but the battles aren't quite as good as they look.

For one thing, Rome: Total War does deliver in several areas. Even though I got this game around the same time I was studying Roman history in school, this game taught me a few historical facts anyway. You do learn a little about Rome's military and unit names. You also learn about the reforms of Gaius Marius, and so on and so on. The games content draws you in.

Because gameplay is the main substance of entertainment in an RTS, rarely do I ever ask for a strategy title to have good sound. But Rome: Total War shines in this zone. The music sucks you into the ancient times, the voice acting is above-average, and the screams of soldiers and the sound of chariots swerving across the batllefield is almost enough to make tears of joy fall out of your ears.

Graphics are also very well done. Thousands of units can be shown at a time. Troops are nicely detailed, even if they look like clones. Even on the low-end machine the game's engine manages to flash it's beauty.

Gameplay, on the other hand, is where this game falls a bit flat. The battles are the dissapointment. Although strategy is often recommended, your enemies fight so poorly you often can often attack then straight on. Commanding your minions is a bit tough, too. When I order my calvalry to slaughter fleeing infantry, they often go off course an get a bit sideways of the enemy.

Overall, though, I recommend this game for most people, and it is defintely pretty good. Just a few loose nails here and there, that's all.

"I do not recommend this game, here is why", Great game. No support.

This is a great game to play. The problem is that one day it will stop working. And when that happens, that is it.

My son enjoyed this game for about 6 months before it stopped working.
The game stopped working whenever my son began a "manual" battle.

We reloaded the operating system (yes, the operating system!) and the game from scratch. This did not fix the problem.

So this is why you should not waste your money on this game. Because the support is so poor. Not one email that I sent, triggered a response.

Companies that do not provide support should be avoided. I will be avoiding Activision in the future.

"Rome: Total Addiction", Wow, I have been very impressed with the overall fun-play of this game. I have been a huge fan of Shogun Total War and Medieval Total War and their expansions. As a professor of Ancient European History, the game is somewhat historically accurate, i.e. Infantry units (with the exception of the Gladiator units), Cavalry units, and siege units and the rival Roman Families all seem to be accurate. If you are looking for an accurate representation of this historically based game, even though much of it is accurate, this game probably is not for you. However, if you are looking for a good introduction game to Roman history this game is very fun to play and quite addicting. There have been many occasions where my wife has asked me to turn the game off and she often threatens to erase the game off our hard drive and break the loading CD's.
Overall I am very impressed with game. When playing any civilization, you need to taylor your strategy to each individual civilization, and it seems that you cannot have the same one at every battle, especially when facing chariots or elephants or advanced Roman units. There were times where I played the Julii family against the Gaul's only to defeat them without loosing too many men and then face the Macedonians where I get annihilated, oh well. You just need to out-flank their Phalanx and hit them in their sides.
The only problem I have with it is playing the disappointing Carthaginians. There were several times where I would charge my infantry backed by archers and elephants, only for them to turn tail and run at the first sign of them dying, even set on easy mode.
I would highly recommend this game to teenage gamers to history nerds such as myself and everyone else in-between. One recommendation is to dedicate time to the game.