One of the best Strategy games I have ever played, but slightly overrated and over repetitive when it comes to diversity
User Rating: 8.9 | Rome: Total War PC
Once you play this game for the first time and experience any battle, you will believe that you just installed the greatest Epic War Game there is, but in about 1/2 weeks, assuming your a avid gamer, you will be disinstalling it to make room for something else, not that the game isn't a classic, but maybe I should explain better. The Total War series has never let us down when it comes to battles, and Rome Total is their greatest achievement in that aspect, but unfortunately the city ruling may be letdown, especially with the inevitable discontent of the citizens. The bloody battles make the Multyplayer mode in the game some very interesting and entertaining stuff, but the lack of variety in combat system (still the basic "Infantry" beats "Cavalry", "Cavalry" beats "Archer", "Archer" isn't really all that useful since they kill your own units, although now they added Heavy Infantry and Cavalry, still works the same). Also the cultural variety is none existent, all they do is change the models and names between "Barbarian Buildings", "Roman/Greek Buildings" and "Desert Buildings" (You'll see that a Germanic temple, that has virtually the same benefits as a roman temple, will be equal, in model, to the Spanish, Gallic and Dacian temples). In conclusion, awesome game, really worth whatever you may pay for it, easy to learn, the best choice if your looking for a "quick affair" with some violent battle scenes, yet once you played with one faction, you have played with them all and a few weeks later you'll be buying something else to occupy that Gigabyte of Space on your PC. But the game is awesome, I suggest that you buy it, just don't expect it to be "The single greatest game in the world, that I shall play forever". 
