" Sweet Jesus...save us...!" words of a dying soldier...... This game show us the real war !!!!
Forget games such as Age of Empires III , Age of Mythology , WarCraft III and Rise of Nations , this little one here has much more action to offer than anyone else. This game is very similar to Medieval : Total War. You start in a great battlefield and with hundreds of men at your comand. You can great more men along the fight. There are many units avaliable , you can use heavy cavalries, archers, infantry and might siege weapons to destroy castles and other buildings. All your units can be full controled by you the way you want. Every type of unit have different abilities that can be used at any time in the battlefield. For example , some archers can fire burning arrows in their enemies, and some cavalry can use the wedge opition to make a line of killing and things like this.
Other new thing in this game is the General. The General is your most important unit and it has to be protected at all costs, surely it doesn't mean that if you general dies you will lose the battle. But it is more likely to lose. Your General comands your army in many ways, there are special features to defend your men using the orders that your general give. That's a great thing , 'cause you start to feel inside the battle.
The graphics are the best I've ever seen in a strategy game. All the units are very well designed and all the effects are well-made. And you don't need a very good video card to do it...This game is very light. The graphics are truly impressive, but what counts inside is the sounds which are very good too. All the sound effects of the army marching,fightinning and the general orders are very well-made. The soundtracks are great , and you can feel inside that period of history when Rome was in all its glory. The gameplay is similar to every real-time strategy game , but with some tasks of RPG games. Resuming, everything can be controlled in the mouse.
I think that this is it! Rome Total War is a game that everyone should have in its collection ! Highly Recommended !