Rome: Total War

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Rome: Total War (often abbreviated to RTW or Rome) is a critically acclaimed strategy game comprised of turn-based strategy and real-time tactics parts in which the player fights historical and fictitious battles within the Roman era. The game was developed by Creative Assembly and released on September 22, 2004.

The game features large-scale battles of ancient armies with thousands of warriors. The main innovation is a brand new high-quality 3D graphics engine able to render over thirty thousand men on a single battlefield. Another prominent feature is the integration of the strategic and tactical views - the landscape for the battles is the same as seen on that particular spot on the strategic map where the armies meet.

The player can take roles roughly equivalent to those of generals such as Hannibal Barca, commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian armies during the Second Punic War, the Gallic warlord Vercingetorix, and Julius Caesar. Among the playable factions are three Roman families (Julii, Brutii, Scipii), which are available from the start of the game, and the free Greek city-states, Carthage, Gaul, Britannia, Germania, Parthia and the successor states of Alexander the Great's Empire: the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt, all of which must be unlocked before they can be played. Like Medieval: Total War, there are also many non-playable factions, including Dacia, Numidia, Scythia, Armenia, the Pontus, and Spain, which can be enabled by making a minor change to one of the game files. Despite a degree of factual inaccuracy in order to facilitate artistic license, the historical setting of the game gives it a potentially educational content.

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