Rome Total war

[Erik3E]

Hi!

Ive ben playing Total war almost ever sins it got relesed for the first time, I started with Showgun Total war and played that for a while then I lost track of all time and space and dident find/play any Total war games untill the relese of Medieval Total war 2. And as for now I am playing Empire Total war. I have heard alot of good things about Rome Total war and I fealt it was time for me to try it out for mysellf, and now I have a cuple of questions about Rome Total war for all of you Empire Total war players(non Empire players are also welcome to answer offcors ).

Question nr 1:
Where can I find a copy of Rome Total war and all its expantions(if you know a place in or near sweden it wold be apritiated)? "norway"

Question nr 2:
What are the names and how many are the expantions?

Question nr 3:
Did you like it or did you hate it?

Question nr 4:
Was Medieval Total war 2 better or wors than Rome Total war or mabe you cant compare them?


If you have something ells to add im all ears

Thanks in advance!

[irishron]

This needs to be moved.

[eXistenZ]

1. Some media/games shops will sell them very cheaply if you are in luck. Otherwise Steam is an option

2. The expansions are Alexander and Barbarion invasion. The easiest thing is to get the gold edition. this is Rome + the two expansions in one box. Alexander is not a typical TW-game in the sense that building an empire is totally out of the picture. BI has a lot of simularities with MEII. Religion, hordes,...

3. i liked it a lot at the time and a few years after that, but it has some flaws.

4. Well rome has less factions than MEII, less unit variety and faction variety/balance. Roman factions al look the same and are overpowered compared to the others

You can see Rome as MEII without princesses (you do have a family tree, but you can't use your girls as agents or marry in other factions), or merchants or priests (there is only religion in BI, and i didn't liked that expansion), and no hordes. There is no city/castle difference. Makes the game a lot more simple. The two expansions aren't half as good as kingdoms though. Also the pope has been replaced by the senate, so that only goes for Roman factions. Non-roman factions don't get any missions.

It doesn't sound good i know, but if you can get it very cheaply, it is certainly worth it. and there are the mods offcours

[Julius Barca the Great]

4. Well rome has less factions than MEII, less unit variety and faction variety/balance. Roman factions al look the same and are overpowered compared to the others

Less unit variety for Rome? Every European faction in Medieval is almost identical. Yes, the Roman factions are identical, but that's to be expected. Just my opinion, really.
I like both games, and go back and forth between playing them, as the mood strikes me.

[Erik3E]

Cool thanks for the answer!

Think I must try it out, have never realy ben interested in that part of history before but I am starting to so I might as whell try it

EDIT: Are you sure you gett both expantions in Gold becous when I look at what it contains it say:

Rome: Total War - Gold Edition


contains:

• Rome: Total War
• Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion

no mention of Alexander :/

EDIT2: I found this dont know if this will contain all? Dident say any thing about the contence: Rome: Total War - Anthology - http://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?p=525696

[eXistenZ]

From typing in rome total war anthology into google, it seems that this contains the full package (rome, BI, and alexander). My bad, i was wrong when i said that gold edition contained alexander as well

[Chris Death]

1) don't know

2) has been completely answered already

3) Neither liked it or hated it - LOVING it

4) I do like RTW most out of all TW's since the battles are way more fun to play in RTW compared to all others (my opinion).
A cavalry charge is a cavalry charge in RTW - once you play it you'll notice what i mean.

The expansions might not be that attractive as a stand-alone, but gread mods make the game even greater, using the expansions
and their implemented new features.

~S~ CD

[Erik3E]

Thanks guys! Think I will be buying them all especialy now when the price has dropped

and + rep for eXistenZ

[Erik3E]

Ok there we go, I have now ordered them and they shold arive tomorow if everything goes whell

Cant wait! This will also give me something to do while waiting for NTWs price to go down!

[geyserik]

I do think rome is still the best total war game but n.t.w. is very good.Bring on rome2!!!!