| Rome: Total War | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 250 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2153
Category: Video Games
Publisher: Activision
Studio: Activision
Brand: ACTIVISION
Label: Activision
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.4
MPN: ROMETOTALWR
Model: 32599
UPC: 047875325999
EAN: 0047875325999
ASIN: B0002MPT6Q
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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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Product Description
Rome: Total War offers cinematic, real-time 3D battles based on ancient history. You'll command the great forces of ancient civilizations, from Rome to Carthage. The mightiest armies and the most brilliant commanders of ancient times clash in an epic war simulation.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 245 more reviews...
 Endless Excitement July 2, 2008
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 June 5, 2008
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 January 9, 2008
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 October 24, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
A great game if it weren't for the crashes September 2, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good game, but the main problem is the frequency of the crashes. After a day of stable play, it started to crash to the desktop after every turn, then every time I tried loading a saved game. A real, real shame, because it is an impressive concept. I installed three different patches, to no avail. I think you need a lot more familiarity with computers than I have in order to solve the bugs by tinkering befor you can truly enjoy this program.
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