Rome: Total War

1001 Video Games

Rome: Total War appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Combat

Manual combat often brings better results than automatic combat (e.g. better character trait results). 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.

Online servers

The game's online servers which were hosted on GameSpy were scheduled to shut down on 31 May 2014 in the wake of GameSpy's total closure.

On 22 July 2014, the Steam version was updated with Steamworks multiplayer. Retail serial keys were configured to be redeemed on Steam.

References

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 movie Life of Brian.

Sales

In December 2004, the game received 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.

TV

The Total War engine was used in The History Channels TV program called Decisive Battles to depict ancient battles and on the BBC television program Time Commanders, where contestants reenact historical battles and must work together to find the best battlefield tactics to win.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2004 – Best PC Strategy Game of the Year
• Computer Games Magazine
  • March 2005 - #5 Game of the Year
• GameSpy
  • 2004 – #5 PC Game of the Year
  • 2004 – PC Strategy Game of the Year (Readers' Vote)
• GameStar (Germany)
  • February 2005 - Best PC Strategy Game in 2004 (Readers' Vote)

Information also contributed by Indra was here, Maw, PCGamer77, uclafalcon and Xoleras