Rome: Total War™ - Collection

Don't let my Playtime fools you. I played this more or less non-stop since 2019 and it destroys my life. Bias Score 10/10...

Challenging even though an old game. Graphics still hold up well. I think this is probs my favourite Total War game. AI is pretty good and relates well to the difficulty settings. One to keep coming back to.

Rome total war is a great game, The politics, and battles ,are very immersing. The organizing of your empire, and armies/people ,are very smartly designed. The game is very historically accurate , ideal for exploring the Roman era. For me the game being historically accurate , has kept me playing since the very beginning . When people ask me what I play, I say Rome Total War ! Take a trip into the past ,and explore the history of the Roman times! I Highly recommend this Game ,and also the other titles to date. There is lots of help and support from the Steam community

one of the all time great games

I like to build stuff

One of the best games that I've ever played, great for it's grand strategy elements, for it's battle command, and also for making one feel immersed as if actually in the time period and there.

The best Total War game ever.

A game for the ages. Genre defining and still very relevant especially on non gaming laptops with integrated graphics.

You can now play this at full specs on an intel CPU with Iris Xe integrated graphics. Lots of mods available and an enjoyable UI that doesn't have the annoying limited building mechanic per city and region of the newer games.

Brilliant in it's relative simplicity, this game shot the total war franchise to superstardom. This is the perfect intro to total war games so start here, and then explore the numerous other worlds created by this top top team.

10/10 classic, one of the very best rts games you could play back in the day. Still fun.

Been playing Total War games for as long as I can remember. It's a little out-dated but still plays well for it's time. Still play it from time to time for old time sake

Classic great that never gets old

After 30 years of Total War games and 20 years later, this Game Itself, Rome: Total War can not be redone, remastered or outshine in anyway. Rome: Total War 2 is a fun game but this game can only be explained in expirence.

don't trust my hours i have a lot of time in this game. really solid total war game.

It`s a great game that keep you really octuiped

I like this game because it is very stratijecd

bought a new laptop installed Steam, now half my games don't work.

My first intro into the Total War series. I had the CD version back in 2004 and played everyday for almost 2 years. I lost the CD and bought the game on steam. One of these days I'll get back into it. Its probably the easiest of all the Total War games, but just as addicting. I can still the music in my head, and the voice acting was great too.

great game

I'm big fan of this game. I recommend it.

wonderful game

Rome: Total War remains a technically impressive strategy game from a simpler era of gaming, now deliberately hidden by its creators. Its systems still offer depth modern games often lack, but its unlisted status makes it a digital ghost—a relic of gaming history that refuses to die. Play it for its genuine strategic depth, but recognize the cognitive dissonance in finding entertainment in simulated imperial conquest.

Old school joy

The best Total War game. And leagues better than the "remaster". I grew up with this game on CD-Rom, so my playtime here isn't accurate to the years I played this. It's a great time-sink, and a fantastic Real-time Large-scale Combat game!

This was the game that made me realized that I fell in love with western civilization.

Maybe the best turn based strategy game of all time, and it still holds up to this day. No need for the Remaster. And, you can just might learn something about history + have a lot of mods!

Absolute classic! Huge battles with lots of different factions and units! 8/10. Not just for a mass-battle with over 15.000 soldiers, but also an addictive campaign.

theres something about commanding romes legions

One of the best classic TW games there is.

good

Graphics might not be quite upto todays standards but the strategy and the game choices are still great t o play

best ever

The classic that helped make Total War a RTS power house. I got this when it first came out and it still is an enjoyable play to this day. I recommend it for anyone interested in a older strategy game or wanting to break into the genre.

good game

The best turn based strategy game of all time, and it still holds up to this day. No need for the Remaster. And, you just might learn something about history.

Game Crashes , but still one of the best games of all time . by CA

Love this game. One of the best strategy games of all time.

very fun

The first of many Total War games to try, Rome initiates the internal Julius Caesar in you. I've played the Greeks too and conquered with them as well. I also love the simple interface.

the best strategy game ive ever played

One of the classic strategy games of all time. Many fond memories of being a teenager playing this having been a Roman Empire nerd most of my life. Lots to manage and learn. Not as polished as later Total War installments but still great playing value especially if you have a personal connection to the history it simulates

great fun game with lots of playable nations

Roman Revolution

Rome: Total War is one of the greatest real-time strategy games ever made and one of the greatest video games ever made, period. It certainly occupies a special place in my heart, being my introduction to the series and kickstarting my lifelong interest in all things historical. The game is a watershed for the series where the gameplay solidified into its modern form and pushed Total War into the mainstream; a prerelease of the game even featured on History Channel’s Decisive Battles and the BBC’s Time Commanders.

Rome’s contribution to the series is to upgrade the campaign map from a board game to a fully rendered 3-dimensional world. Armies, agents, and navies now traverse the landscape in detail with movement points limiting how far they can move per turn. Each “tile” or space on the map corresponds to a specific battle map reflective of the local terrain and army positions when the battle begins. Settlements also occupy their own space on the map and are the hub from which you control provinces – capture the settlement, own the province. They come with new considerations; while public order and taxation remain your primary concerns, population is introduced as a prerequisite for recruitment and upgrading your cities. Like battlefields, settlement maps are reflective of what you construct, and it can be fun to watch your cities grow (you can even explore settlement maps outside of battle!).

The new campaign paradigm places new emphasis on strategic terrain and positioning of armies, opening up a host of new strategies not possible in Shogun or Medieval; you can hold river crossings and mountain passes against hordes of enemies or pull off large-scale pincer attacks with multiple armies. The marriage of campaign and battle maps also rockets the series to new heights of graphical immersion. Launch an amphibious assault against an army or town and you will likely see your navy anchored offshore; hold off the enemy some distance from a city and you will see the walls far away in the distance – Rome is the first Total War to make the game world come to life in the big and small details. It’s also immensely appealing to look at, coupling the rich colour of Medieval with the regional diversity of the classical world, from the dark forests of Germania to the sands of Egypt, while winter blankets the north in freshly fallen snow.

Rome can also claim one of the most diverse faction and unit rosters of the franchise. The Romans are favoured with an exclusive campaign mechanic: three separate factions must compete for territory and favour with the Senate and People of Rome before making a bid to seize total control in a massive civil war. It’s the defining campaign experience but the other factions hardly suffer. All eleven playable factions feature unique start positions and rosters spanning the full spectrum of classical Europe, from the heavy infantry legions of the Romans to the heavy cavalry and horse archers of the Parthians, offering plenty of challenge and replay value.

On the battlefield, these armies look and feel more impressive than ever. No longer mere sprites, your men are now flesh-and-blood (read: polygonal) soldiers. Unlike the stop-and-start jitter of sprite animation, units have weight and momentum behind their movements, while varied and reactive combat animations give battles a lifelike spontaneity. I’ve always appreciated the fidelity of Rome’s battles but playing it in turn after Shogun and Medieval drives home the sense of mass and scale behind the armies in the game and it translates into some of the most satisfying combat in the series, benefiting from a modern control scheme (selection and orders on separate buttons!) and egged on by meaty sound design and Jeff van Dyck’s finest work yet – one of the greatest soundtracks of all time.

Even a classic has its foibles. Diplomatic options are expanded but rarely come into play with a stubborn and often illogical AI who is quite happy to broker and break peace in the same turn. Unit pathfinding can leave me scratching my head, especially in the maze of city streets. Some settlements also appear to have inherent bonuses or penalties to income or population which can be frustrating when a city refuses to stay in the black. Your characters can be used as governors to manage these issues but, as in Medieval, characters are a mixed bag and might be even worse in Rome.

Characters are not as involved as in Medieval – there’s no loyalty or civil wars to worry about and marriages are taken care of in the background – while attributes are streamlined into Command, Management, and Influence. But it’s their traits that again prove the greatest frustration. No longer based solely on chance, characters accrue points based on their circumstances to eventually generate traits, and many of these are tied to being garrisoned in or governing settlements and the presence, absence, or level of buildings there. Characters are therefore guaranteed to develop negative traits in the early game or anywhere there are low level cities. It is possible to counteract or “cure” some traits, but the result is a system which effectively punishes you for using characters as governors, and it's a stain on an otherwise fantastic experience.

Rome: Total War remains a defining game of the series and a classic of the RTS genre. It’s the first Total War to feature the turn-based campaign and real-time battles in their modern forms and an outstanding amount of variety and replay value you would expect from the setting, even as it suffers from some frustrating mechanics and some unpredictable performance on modern systems. It may not be the most challenging game in the series, but it will always serve as fitting entry point into Total War.

Just great fun with plenty of options for replay.

Old but gold! Especially with the Alexander expansion, this game was fantastic

Great Game Best one ever from ca

best of the best

great classic

will run on any pc fun game

its a good enough game for its time.