A great game but with its own problems
{Overview}
If you haven't watched gamespots review heres an overview of the story. you can play 1 of 3 Roman factions the Julii the Brutii or the Scipii families (and yes I had to look those up to spell them) each faction holds its own spot on the Itilian peninsula and has its "job" for the roman senate (an un-playable Roman faction that is over the other 3 and controls Rome.) the julii is in the north of the peninsula is suppost to conquer barbarians to the north.(Gauls,Germania etc.) The brutii is at the southeast area and has to conquer the macidonians and the Greek city-states and the Scipii has a small area in the southwest and also has sicily and they must conquer people at the top of Africa. once you get powerful you can start a civil war with the other factions and take rome to become emperior. wow that was long!
{The Parts that are Good}
fighting is very innovative and has many good parts.
managing your cities is fun and so is building your amies.
The AI is stupid some people don't like this but its no fun when your enemies beat you at every turn
playing as Romans makes you feel powerful.
{The Bullcrap}
Generals and govenors are a real problem because the only people who can be one is a member of your factions family and you dont really need generals in armies but you need a govenor in every city and onece you start to grow you wont have enough friggin govenors because they die almost as fast as the're born and if a city has no govenors you can't build buildings or train troops also the public order nose drops and they riot. thats the only real problem with this game.
{Multiplayer}
gotta wrap this up.
multiplayer is good theres no managing economy oranything you choose a faction (doesnt have to be a roman one) and you choose what troops are in your army then you fight you can have several players on teams and there can be up to 8 players ina game interestingly you can have more than 2 sides it can be a 3,4.5 etc. way battle but having other players on your team is bes for new players and so far I haven't found a way to have a friends lists or anything like that
this is the end of this review I made it too long this took me about 30 mins to type because of pauses an changing things and i still have things i think i should add but anything i missed just watch or read gamespots review if you haven't already and f*** the generals in my game who keep having girls who are useless because they wont marry untill there like 30 p.s. girl family membes cant be generals or govenors but there husbands can