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Rome: Total War

Trivia

At the event "GameStar/GamePro Leserpreis 2005" (February 2004) Rome: Total War received the trophy "Best PC Strategy Game in 2004" after the reader's voting of German gaming magazine GameStar.

Rome: Total War was named #5 Game of the Year in the 14th Annual Computer Game Awards issue of Computer Games Magazine (March 2005).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2008.

If you ever wondered whether manual combat brings better results than automatic combat (e.g. better character trait results), then the answer is yes. This is because the game programming requirements at an end battle are usually much better during manual combat than automatic combat. Automatic battles usually inflict minimal enemy casualties which usually is not enough for a character requirement to progress.

Contributed by Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari (13163) on Jan 06, 2006.

In December 2004 has Rome: Total War won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

When you look in the building description for aqueduct, there's a quote "what have the Romans ever done for us? This is what!"

This is a line from the Monty Python comedy sketch Life of Brian.

The Rome: Total War engine was also used on the BBC television program "Time Commanders," where contestants reenact historical battles and must work together to find the best battlefield tactics to win.

The Total War engine is used in The History Channels t.v. program called Decisive Battles to depict ancient battles.