Rome: Total War
Release Date: 9/22/2004
Developer: Creative Assembly
Publisher: Activision
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  • Ancient Rome setting
  • Humongous epic 3D battles with thousands of units
  • Streamlined strategic game
  • Completely optional halves: Choose to play only the battles or only the strategic game
  • Accurate historical battle mode
  • Improved help system and tutorial

Watch a Rome: Total War video. Click "Stream for Free" for higher resolution. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was this ambitious strategy game from the creator of Shogun and Medieval. Rome will take everything that was great about Creative Assembly's already-impressive strategy games and make it bigger, better looking, and easier to use. As its title suggests, the game will take place during the time of the Roman Empire. You'll be able to play as one of a number of Roman factions, as well as one of Rome's many rival nations in a bid to take over the ancient world.

To this end, you'll be able to use the Total War series' patented combination of a strategic turn-based mode and huge real-time battles fought between thousands of soldiers. The strategic turn-based mode will be expanded to let you move troops across territories rather than across separate nations like a board game--this lets you take better control of positioning your armies for battle. However, the strategic game will have all the depth and political intrigue of the previous games but in a more-streamlined fashion that includes an advisor that walks you through pretty much everything. And the game's real-time battles will take place in huge 3D environments among companies that have powerful commanding officers and individual units that will square off against each other. The game will also have other improvements, like a better endgame that may culminate in a bloody Roman civil war (rather than the anticlimactic mopping up of loose territories that you haven't yet conquered). Rome: Total War looks very impressive, and from what we've seen, the game will provide hours of enjoyable distraction for fans of both grand strategy and brutal battles.

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