

The game features a Single-Player Campaign where you play as a faction and achieve your goal of conquest of the other factions, the ability to create custom battles to fight against AI controlled opponents, Multiplayer battles online against other people, Real-time command of armies on 3-D rendered battlefield environments, and you can fight notable historical battles such as the Battle of the Trebia.Įach faction has some units and structures unique to their own faction or culture. A demo of the game, which features a playable version of the Battle of the Trebia, with the player taking the role of Hannibal, was released on Augand is freely available for downloading. The game was developed by Creative Assembly and released on September 22, 2004.

With this patch you won't have to play as the Romans because once itnstalled, it adds 10 new playable factions, each fitted with unique tactics and units.Rome: Total War (often abbreviated to RTW or Rome) is a critically acclaimed strategy game where players fight historical and fictitious battles during the era of the Roman Republic and the reign of Augustus, from 270 BC (the final defeat of the last of Rome's Italian rivals) to 14 AD (the death of Augustus). Ultimatelly, the campaign will allow you to witness the downfall of the western Roman Empire. The action is set in 363 AD when the Roman empire was split into two and to make things worse, the number of barbarians that are gathering close to your borders are increasing. The Barbarian Invasion patch provides a new campaign in which you will have to deal with massive invading forces.

Unfortunately, once you finish the campaign there isn't much you can do since the online servers have been shutdown.Īn alternatrive is to use this patch in order to expand the game a bit more. The game is filled with epic large scale battles between huge armies on all kinds of terrains.

In the game you get to play as one of the tree most powerful houses in Rome at that time and fight for supremacy. Rome: Total War is a RTS strategy game that focuses on the early stages of the Roman empire and its expansion.
