The name of the game says it all, it perfectly depicts what this game is about. When you first start the campaign, everything goes pretty slow and each turn only takes about 2-3 minutes, but once your Empire expands and you own 1/3rd of the map, it starts to take more like 20-30 minutes each turn! You will find it very challenging to be able to defend all of the territories you've conquered, and even more challenging to conquer more. You always have to make sure you have the best units because if you don't, your army of 1500 weak guys will be DESTROYED by a mere 300 strong guys. And you need to make sure you know where all of your generals are, I can't tell you how many times I completely forgot about one and his small army got wiped out and I didn't even remember he was there. It is rather hard to keep up with everything on the game when you've got 5 armies going in all different directions in order to conquer more cities the fastest, while still maintaining your city's armies to keep the enemies from taking it over with ease, and mass producing units and naval units. If you don't have a lot of time on your hands to play games, this game isn't for you, but if you're bored and never have anything to do, this will take up a large sum of your time. This is a good game to develop your tactic skills, as you need a little bit of every type of unit to have an efficient army, such as rangers, cavalry, infantry, etcetera. You can't control Naval combat so maybe that is one of the only parts of the game that is lacking, I would definitely give this a straight 11/10 if they made the Naval battles more interesting where you could actually fire cannons and stuff instead of just clicking a button. I enjoy the fact that governing and negotiating with foreign nations is very realistic and immersive. Just on normal difficulty it's extremely hard to expand your empire, especially if you're taking fire from all sides and you're enemies with everyone(bad bad bad). Keep in mind that you need a strong micromanaging ability to be able to play this game efficiently, and if you don't have that ability, you better have some Advil!
The folks at CA have certainy outdone themselves this time, to say the very least. They go from making great games to bloody near perfect one. Yeah, as far as I can see, Rome is perfect. You won't be noticing the AI prob... Read Full Review
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