rome: total war review

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Average Ratings

Addiction Level	9.1/10
Graphics	8.5/10
Value for Money	8.6/10
Reviewer Rating	9/10
Overall Rating	9.4/10

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By stuart foot on 17th Feb 2006

stuart foot's Ratings

Addiction Level	10/10
Graphics	9/10
Multi-player	No
Value for money	9/10
Overall value	10/10
stuart foot's recommendation

Good Points

Great graphics
Good game speed
Intuitive game control system
Game length

Bad Points

Senate missions and Rome Total War
The difficulty of some of the factions in the Barbarian sequel

General Comments

General Comments:

This review is for the Rome Total War PC game and the Barbarian sequel. In this game you play on an overall campaign map, which shows the then Roman 'known world'. However, when you play a battle you zoom into a very impressive 3D-battle landscape where you then control your army.

In the 1st game you can play as one any one of three Roman factions. As you progress the game opens up other none Roman factions which you can then play as well. In the Barbarian sequel the Roman world has moved on a few hundred years, and you then play one of the two Roman Empires staring defeat in the face, or one of the emerging Barbarian invaders.

This is an absolutely massive game that you can play for days, weeks or even months. I would not hesitate to recommend this as one of the most impressive PC games available at present.

The Good points: -

Rome Total War is a very, very, impressive game. The game is probably the best game available at present for this type of War conquest on the PC. This is the latest game in a number of similar war conquest type games from Activison, and it is by far the best yet. The graphics are much better than the others, such as Medieval Total War, and the games computer artificial intelligence is very good as well.

The Bad points: -

It's a very minor moan with such a good game, but the Senate missions in Rome Total War are a real pain, and they distract from the overall game. Also in the second game, the difficulty of some of the factions are a bit off-putting.


Conclusion: -

Total War Rome and the Barbarian sequel are probably the best examples of this type of PC game. I would not hesitate to recommend it as long as you have a big space in your diary to play it.

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