If your looking for a Strategy game to Get into Romes Total War is the way to go.
When It Came to Battles they seemed huge a vast improvement from the previous game, but the Feature of the game that really caught me up was the map strategies of Building cities up and creating Giant armies that would either protect you or fight for you. Unfortunately in campaign mode they only allow you to Play as 1 Of 3 roman houses but if they didn't really do that its not Romes war now is it?
Though campaign mode can take hours it of your life as there is so much to do and conquer it feels much more like Epic game and that you are leading a great military power, no matter how many time you were beaten it never really seems to lose its freshness.
I recently Bought my own copy of Rome Total war: Gold Edition seeing as the previous copy was not really mine I set out for my enjoyable time consuming strategy and since its so cheap now its worth pay the tiny sum to keep yourself occupied with a strategy game that keeps growing.