Quote Originally Posted by LittleRaven
Rome: Total War is easily one of the best games to hit the market in the last two years. A little perspective is in order here.

No, it will not make you coffee and massage your feet. Obviously there is room for improvement. But to call it anything less than a fantastic achievement is simply ludicrous.

It's not the best game of all time. Whether it's the best game of the TW series probably depends on your taste. In many ways, it completely blows its predecessors away. However, it's also much more complex than Shogun or Medieval, and that does make the shortcomings of the AI, which has always been the weakest part of the TW series, even more obvious. It has it's share of bugs and quirks, though that was true of all the old ones as well. It's also pushed the TW series into really cool territory that's never been seen before. After Shogun, I thought the castle sieges in Medieval were great. Rome has made all that obsolete in a moment. I can't wait to see where things go from here.

All things considered, you'd have to be crazy to miss out on this game. Not only do you get the vanilla game, which is a pretty phenomenal value for $50, but you get access to more mods and skins and units than you can shake a stick at. CA deserves massive kudos and money for the bang up job they did on this game, and polite reminders of the things they still need to fix. After all, we all want them to make more.
I agree completely. Id played Medieval for a long time and was considering getting rome but was reading so much bad stuff about it. but i gave it ago and it blew me away. Seriously dudes put everything into perspective, rome is a brilliant game, and the variation of mods just blew me away. Ok the AI is worse than in Medieval Total War but so what. The beuty of the game blew me away and the shere effort put in by creative assembly is awesome. I mean you can look at your settlement on the map, your army is placed where it would be on the campaign map, the campaign map is in sync with the battle map ( i.e forests, bridges) and you can use the campaign map to your advantage. The sieges are awesome, you can use ladders rams and siege towers without a special unit for it. I dont care if one unit ever existed, the TW series has taught me more about history then most of my complete book collection.

So please put it into perspective dudes it might not be perfect, but its an awesome game