The best Total War game there is.
User Rating: 9.5 | Rome: Total War PC
Rome : Total War has many of the same elements as the earlier Total War games, Shogun and Medieval , but the excellent system has been refined and the turn-based campaign component has been perfected. Now units can move to any point on the campaign map – not just an area – and they are impeded only by the terrain. Armies have zones of control, so operational maneuver comes into play as one attempts to coordinate his forces to strike the enemy from several directions at once. Either side can hide in the great forests of Europe , recreating situations such as the battle of Teutoburger Wald , in which Germanic forces under Arminius ambushed and wiped out three Roman legions in 9 A.D.
Improvement in the campaign portion of Rome: Total War enhances the brilliance of the real-time battles – they actually look like animated paintings with thousands of detailed figures moving across picturesque landscapes. Players can zoom out to see the ebb and flow of the battle or zoom in to see the desperate hand-to-hand struggles. The scenes produced by this game engine are so realistic that the History Channel uses the software to illustrate ancient conflicts in its Decisive Battles program. 
