Hands on day report (Shireknight)

[Don Esteban]

What amuses me is how he says the game is a RTW beater. For me Rome was the weakest of the whole series so I would certainly hope it was a RTW beater!!!!

[Sir Beane]

What amuses me is how he says the game is a RTW beater. For me Rome was the weakest of the whole series so I would certainly hope it was a RTW beater!!!!

Interestingly in the gaming press Rome is often held up as the pinnacle of the series. Personally I would have said that was MTW however.

[andrewt]

Interestingly in the gaming press Rome is often held up as the pinnacle of the series. Personally I would have said that was MTW however.

Shows what the press knows. I think it's because Rome was the first 3d game. They love graphics and novelty. I'm with Don Esteban. I thought Rome was the worst and the only Total War game I didn't buy any expansion for. The game had so many balance problems galore (hi, overpowered cavalry in an infantry dominated era).

I'm with MTW as well. MTW2 wasn't that bad as well but still had some of the glaring problems of RTW. Interestingly, a lot of the gameplay frustrations I had were campaign map related and ETW seems to have overhauled it.