Rome : Total War is simply great, and must be played if you are a fan of History, Strategy or Video Games!

User Rating: 9.5 | Rome: Total War PC
By Legend-of-Evil | Review Date:
The Total War series is known for its realtime-strategy based historical kill 'em alls. But until I played this game at an Internet Cafe I had not so much avoided the series but just not cared less about them. This game, simply put, is great. I wish I knew the man who invented history lessons, strategy and video games as one, for he'd be happy with were it's come.

The graphics in Rome : Total War is a customizable masterpiece, with settings on hand at ALL times to change the resolution, graphical intensity of all things in the game, so at best, you should be able to play this game slowly at its full-res stardom. Each unit in the game is finely detailed (this can also be changed), and the perfection of the battlefield variables is amazing, your units can get tired, winded, exhausted, very tired, fresh and warmed up, as well as there being extra counts of variables like Morale, Strength Ratios before the battle as well as a kill 'em all speech by your general, which becomes slowly more inspirational and less jibber-jabber as your leader's command, management and influence skills rise.

The sound is more dramatic then I expected or hoped for. It is continuous, and it cues music with action in the battlefield very suitably, as well as having some woman singing latin im presuming through most of the campaign map. Let me tell you about some of the factions you can play.

The House(s) of Julii, Brutii and Scipii are the three factions you can start playing as. Now, the aim of the game can be one of two things. Short campaign, be the first faction to own 15 provinces and outlast or destroy your faction's main enemy. Long campaign, become the emperor of Rome, own at least 50 provinces. Now, obviously the Long campaign is one hell of a workload if you like playing on VH/VH for maximal realism in the battles. Don't fret, if you get bored you can start over with another faction, some of which you unlock from destroying them in the campaign, however you must destroy them yourself to unlock them, otherwise nothing happens.

You can additionally play as The Greek Cities, Gaul, Carthage, Germania, Brittania, Seleucid Empire, Egypt, and a few more (haven't got that far yet). This gives the game excellent replay value, with each faction having similiar but unique units for themselves, and there own languages.

Rome : Total War is a brilliant game, truly, I have enjoyed it, and will continue to enjoy it until I have beat it with every faction on VH/VH (extra mod's here I come)

Graphics - 9/10
Sound - 8/10
Gameplay - 9/10
Overall - 9.5/10

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