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Rome: Total War Gold Edition | 
| From: Feral Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1113
Format: DVD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS X Intel
Genre: military_and_historical_strategy_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Discs: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: 354
Model: 354
UPC: 644247003501
EAN: 0644247003549
ASIN: B000RG1G00
Publication Date: January 29, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Up to 10,000 men on screen at once are yours to command | | • | A century-spanning campaign, in which you must manage the economic, civil, religious, and military arms of your empire | | • | Fight alongside or against history's greatest leaders such as Julius Caesar, Spartacus, and Hannibal to expand or destroy the Roman Empire | | • | Play either side | | • | Unprecedented scale and detail make Rome - Total War one of the greatest historical war games |
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Product Description
Rome: Total War™ is an epic-scale strategy game that invites you to experience the grandeur glory and brutality that was ancient Rome. Encompassing three centuries of warfare from the Punic Wars to the death of Augustus the game captures the excitement and challenge of conquering and ruling the Roman Empire. Using military might diplomacy subterfuge and assassination this is a struggle to reach and retain the Imperial throne.But that's no small feat. Along the way you'll have to dodge assassins' knives build and govern cities train and command armies obey the wishes of the Senate (some of the time) stage gladiator games and face many other challenges and surprises.The Barbarian Invasion expansion pack moves the action on by over 350 years to the end of the Roman world. The Empire had changed in that time and was now Christian and not entirely Roman. The army was largely manned by "barbarians" and the Empire itself had split in two. The western part was to be crippled by a series of poor emperors bad administration civil unrest and large scale migration by barbarians into Roman lands. Eventually as the money ran out the Empire's forces were withdrawn from the outlying provinces and the locals were left to fend for themselves.Features Innovative battle tactics - Experience innovative battlefield tactics and real-time battles with up to 10000 soldiers on-screen at once. Command and build your campaigns - Command and build economic civil religious and military power with the century-spanning campaign. Fight against great leaders - Fight alongside or against history's greatest leaders such as Julius Caesar Spartacus and Hannibal to expand or destroy the Roman Empire. Lay siege with signature weapons and abilities - Lay siege against the Romans as Attila the Hun the fearful Saxons or other savage factions using signature weapons and abilities.System Requirements:Minimum Requirements Processor: 1.8GHz RAM: 512MB Graphics
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 14
 Great Game! But...... July 31, 2010
Dj Petrov
I love RTW a lot it's awesome but when my father got me a Mac which I do not like at all I was so happy too see RTW for Mac! So I spend the money...And Here it is at my door I didn't open it because me and my family went to go visit my other family so we come home a week later I open my game.. Dents/Scratches/And too late to return it... Good Game though best on MAC i think sense mac is the best right now.? but i will never get to know... :( thank you amazon.com!
EPIC June 27, 2010
frenchyfrench
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am hooked to this game. No issues in the conversion on my end, and it looks awesome on the 27" imac!!!
 Keeps on crashing on the barbarian version... March 29, 2010
Torquemada (Atlanta, Georgia USA / Madrid, Spain.)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What more can I say about this fantastic game that hasn't been said or written ? Realistic, challenging, educative etc etc.
I had the PC version, but since I now Use an Imac, I thought the graphics would be so much better and push this game a couple of notches up. No disappointment with the classic Rome version. However, as another reviewer has said, there a re SERIOUS issues with the "extra" barbarian part.
Everything goes fine until you get into the later stages of the game. Then, the problems start. I crashed repeatedly when taking Philadelphia from the rebels. Finally found the answer in just retreating and besieging the place over and over again, until they surrendered. I thought I successfully bypassed the BUG. Well, no, I didn't. Got the same crashes when besieging the last Sassanid city. It did not matter whether I did automatic, used less troops, used different troops, took the city or waited for time to pass (Sassanids were attacking me). So I finally decided to do the same thing as with Philadelphia. Retreating from the siege and going back to besieging. It's annoying because you have to immobilize troops you could use elsewhere, but at least it doesn't crash.
Alas, while working towards conquering northern provinces of Africa (you need to conquer 34 provinces, including Alexandria, Carthage Rome and another one), and having to pass turn, the game crashed again. I have tried several options, but you need to pass turn at some point, and the game crashes inevitably. In summary, I am stuck.
I will probably try to return the game because of these fatal flaws. This game's release was postponed several times, and the reason was probably because they couldn't have it debugged. They still haven't. People at Feral, PLEASE DO NOT release a product if you are not sure it will work....
An Almost Great Game.... March 24, 2010
Jim from Oaktown (Oakland, California)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Rome: Total War" has elements that should be familiar to fans of strategy games like Sid Meier's "Civilization" series (maps and city building) and "Legion Arena" (commanding battles in real-time). But "Rome: Total War" is a big improvement over these simpler games: the graphics really are impressive, and the battles are exciting. It promises a great learning experience for anyone interested in history, and in understanding the dynamics of empire-building: the scenarios stay pretty close to real historical events, and the player gets updates on the progress of philosophy and astronomy in the ancient world, as well as updates on military and diplomatic developments. The strengths and weaknesses assigned to faction leaders and their family members (who are born, struggle, and die, just like real human beings) bring the game even closer to real life. Wrapped in the game experience, the player can get a sense of the exhilaration and despair felt by an embattled warlord, with absolute power over hundreds of thousands of followers.
But I can't give the game more than a couple of stars: frankly, I found this game--even at the lowest level of difficulty--to be too difficult to be really enjoyable. After playing some three dozen games (leading various factions), and failing to come close to winning, I just burned out and lost interest. (I'm pretty good at "Civilization III," so my failure to master "Rome: Total War" rather surprised me.)
For players of the PC version of this game, there are cheats that look like they might be a big help: the cheat I really longed for was the one that delivers 20,000 or even 40,000 denarii on request: war really is a matter of money, as one of the game's pop-up aphorisms points out. Unfortunately, these cheats are not available in the Mac version.
In my opinion, a computer game should be relaxing and fun to play, which means that "Easy" (the lowest level of difficulty in "Rome: Total War") should be, literally, "child's play," with a win more or less guaranteed to the experienced player. For a real challenge, the player can then move up to "Medium," "Hard," and eventually "Very Hard." (Reviewers, has anyone actually won a game of "Rome: Total War" at the "Very Hard" level?) With no reward in sight, any game becomes frustrating and ultimately boring. So this game, despite its promise, has been a disappointment.
Rome: Total War is a blast March 12, 2010
Lawrence J. Cannariato
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Finally a great game for the Mac. This classic is still the best of the Total War series and works flawlessly on the Mac. I highly recommend this game to those gamers who like strategy and history games combined.
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