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Rome: Total War (Gamer's Choice) (PC Games)
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| Current Sales Rank: | #469 in Games | | All-Time Sales Rank: | #886 Overall |
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Rome: Total War is the next generation in epic strategy gaming from the critically acclaimed and award winning Total War brand. The aim of the game is to conquer, rule and manipulate the Roman Empire with the ultimate goal of being declared as the “Imperator” of Rome. Set in a time when the mighty Roman Empire emerged to conquer the known world against powerful enemies, when gladiators fought to a bloody death in the Coliseum; when Spartacus defied the might of the empire; when Hannibal led his invincible army and his war elephants across the Alps to strike fear into the very heart of Rome itself; and when Julius Caesar finally smashed the Barbarian Gauls. This was a time of brutal confrontation between civilisation and barbarism, and of civil war as the ancient world’s only superpower turned on itself.
A completely new Total War™ engine uses innovative technology and groundbreaking design to bring the world of ancient Rome to life to deliver the biggest and most cinematic battles ever seen in a videogame. So the battles in Rome: Total War maintain the epic-scale that fans of Total War are used to - but now use high detailed 3D polygonal troops and allows huge cities to be displayed on the battlefields.. The result is truly spectacular.
Sticking with the award-winning formula of Total War games, the campaign game lets players build an Empire using the arts of war, diplomacy and trade. The new engine recreates Europe as a 3D game world ripe for conquest - where the whole physical terrain of Europe has been re-created. Cities and settlements will grow and develop over time (providing they are managed properly) and as players develop the environment around their cities (eg by building roads and bridges or improving the agriculture) the battlefields will adapt to show these features. The result is a fully dynamic interactive world.
Features:
- Epic battles between collosal armies. Over 10,000 fully polygonal, motion captured units can be displayed simultaneously with virtually no sacrifice of performance compared to Medieval: Total War.
- Players can command entire Roman Legions, Greek phalanxes, barbarian hordes and the armies of Carthage, Egypt, and the Successor Kingdoms, each with a mix of exclusive units.
- The campaign game is accessible to all gamers from those who want to do everything through to beginners (who can use city governors and automatic systems to handle the detail of taxation, military training and building) and those who just want to fight enormous battles!
- Besiege huge cities and storm mighty fortresses with powerful artillery and siege engines. Bring your enemies' defences crashing to the ground with catapults, smash through their gates with battering rams as burning oil rains rains death from above, fight your way onto the battlements with siege towers and assault ladders and undermine their walls by igniting sapping points.
- Rome: Total War also allows up to 8 players to fight epic battles over a LAN or the internet.
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Reviewed by Ryan from New Plymouth, NZ on December 29th, 2007
If you like ''conquer the world'' type games then this is ideal. Set in the times of caesar you form armies and conquer the known world. Its very addictive and hours may pass without you even realising. Recommeded 100%
Just one more turn...
Reviewed by Mike from Christchurch, NZ on September 25th, 2007
Rome: Total War is singly responsible for my lack of sleep during the first month of playing it. For those who are familiar with the Total War series, this is the third in the series after Shogun and Medieval Total Wars. It's the first to venture into the 3D world of computer gaming and boy does it look good. There's still the two facets of the game: the turn based board game styled strategic map and the action battle map. There are just so many options available to achieve one objective: for example you want to take a settlement, how to go about it? Well, you could use the frontal approach and place the settlement under seige with one of your armies, or you could assassinate key figures in the settlement making it easier to fight their army, or you could send in a politician and bribe them to surrender... options are endless. The setting is just about all of Europe, Middle-East and N. Africa so there's plenty of variation is fighting conditions and thus fighting styles. The Romans might be good at defending a fort, but the heavy armour is not so flash in the hot deserts of N. Africa, chariots are good in the plains but not so good in the forests of Brittania.
The Good: Awesome setting, beautiful 3D with thousands of soldiers, lots of options, just one more turn syndrome
The Bad: no sleep
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Release date: 23rd November, 2006.
List price: AU$19.95.
Catalogue number: 1530299.
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