Today I bought the PC Gamer magazine for its demo of BI, and I noticed that they had a top 100 games of all time thing. So before playing the demo I decided to read a bit through it. After stumbling through some pages I turned over to reveal Rome Total War, with a big picture of some legions marching across some grass. At first I thought it was twenty-something, but soon realised there was no second digit. OMFG. RTW has been voted the second best PC game ever by PC Gamer readers. This is in front of Halo, Deux Ex, World of Warcraft, The Sims 2 and many other great games. Number 1 was Half-Life 2, which is strange because RTW and HL2 were both reviewed in the same issue and HL2 got 94% whereas RTW got 93% (if I remember correctly)
I haven't posted this so I can get a huge rant of "But Rome Total War is inaccurate and a crappy game, why wasn't it Shogun or Medieval?" which I can almost guarantee somebody will post in the first page. Maybe it has its problems, maybe it isn't all that accurate, maybe the AI isn't as smart as some would like it to be, but you have to admit, this is the kind of statement about the brilliantly complex but balanced gameplay that RTW has that it deserves.
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