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| Rome: Total War Gold Edition | 
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| From: Sega of America, Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $9.26
You Save: $10.73 (54%)
New (44) Used (8) from $9.26
Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 1165
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Gold
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 1.1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 85166
Model: ROMETOTALWRGOLD
UPC: 010086851663
EAN: 0010086851663
ASIN: B000E2D3LC
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Too Buggy to Buy Save Your Money October 25, 2006
7 out of 20 found this review helpful
Rome Total War is a fun and very challanging game but has too many software bugs in its current version 1.3 and on up to be consider a buy. It is famous for its Crash to Desktop or CTD in the middle of a game. Save you money until a bug free version comes out on a new Romam war game is produced by someone who knows what they are doing. Too bad but that the way the CD spins.
 Great Game - Campaign is a bit long August 14, 2006
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
Overall, Rome Total War rocks. I'm a big Civ fan but I also like to play Warcraft. Rome Total War combines these well. The only negative is the campaign game takes a really long time (30+ hours) to play.
 Rome total war August 7, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Son loves game. He had it before but since it has multiple disc's (one broke) we had to reorder entire set. It is a strategy game and teaches him alot about Roman history. If one disc breaks entire game is no good. So keep them safe- we learned the hard way.
Strategic combat at its best May 12, 2006
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
While I am personally more fond of Rome's predecessor, Medieval: Total War, the latest in the Total War series is nothing short of excellent. Much has been improved on, especially the real-time combat and gameplay mechanics. The meek AI, underdeveloped naval combat, and drab visuals that marred Medieval have been done away with for the latest installation.
One of the greatest strengths of the series has always been its ability to capture the truly epic feel of worldwide warfare, regardless of whether you are looking over the whole of Europe or watching rank-and-file armies advancing upon each other. This is especially true with the new 3D combat engine, which is vastly superior to Medieval's. The units are all fully modeled and animated, and the camera is much more maneuverable, allowing you to get up close. This isn't very handy from a command standpoint, but it really makes the battles come alive. Battles in cities and forts are also much more fun, since they are more balanced and take place in full-sized replicas of the cities you see on the world map, down to the individual buildings you or your opponent have constructed.
The mechanics of the strategy portion of the game are different. Instead of treating each provence as a whole entity, with units being able to move between them once per turn, units move relative to the physical distance they must cross on the map, with cities being the points of interest you must find. While this adds more strategy and realism to the game (since it will obviously take longer for an army to cross an African desert than the Italian peninsula), this makes the game move much more slowly and, I feel, detracts from the excitement and fun. Fortunately, the game compensates for this and does not require conquering the entire map to win; under the new rules of the game it would take a very, very long time.
The expasion, while not lacking in content, is slightly on the boring side. I believe my opinion may be slightly tainted since I am not as fond of the play styles inherent in choosing tribal factions which compose virtually all the playable ones in Barbarian Invasion. Still, after playing several full games of Rome, I found that the expansion did not offer enough new material to hold my interest for very long. Besides, there is plenty of fun to be had without the expansion, due to the wider range of factions and units.
Fans of the series will not be disappointed, which seems to be a rarity these days. Newcomers should be prepared for a challenge, but the game does a good job of breaking people in and letting them enjoy the game from start to finish.
Civilization meets real time tactical combat March 29, 2006
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
The AI isn't entirely challenging, but that is really true of all games. Until programmers can come up with truely great AI I will just have to keep giving games 4/5 and 9/10. This game is more a 9/10 than a 4/5 btw.
If anyone knows about an old game called Archon, this game is to Civilization what Archon was to Chess, it takes the basic Civilization game (capturing cities, expanding empire, building armies and upgrading cities) and adds a real-time combat element.
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