Excellent
User Rating: 8.9 | Rome: Total War PC
Rome is one of the best strategy games, and certainly the best rts I've ever played - I love the campaign game and the battles are great. I prefer the campaign style and the 'proper' battle style to the alternative C&C style of rts games where you build a base, defend it and then when you have an overwhelming force rampage across the map. Directing proper armies with clear objectives (taken this town, destroy that army etc) with units that by and large do what you tell them to is a relief from other games.
The graphics engine is great, although battles can get a bit repetitive and the AI is not always great - sometimes it appears to cheat, and other times it is remarkably dense and only becomes challenging when you try and wipe out an enemy army with half the numbers of troops. Other than those complaints (and the huge letdown of not being able to fight naval engagements) though, it is superb.
