Rome: Total War

[+Project.S+]

hey hey hey

it came all together

[deprodigy]

am I ignorant for not hearing of either of these games?

[+Project.S+]

naw, we just saw it in the steam store thingy

[ManBearPig <ibis>]

am I ignorant for not hearing of either of these games?

Well if you are into turn based strategy games than yes you are ignorant, but if you have no affiliation with this community than no.

[D1lD0]

R: TW actually started as software used by the National Geographic/History Channel in their digital recreations of famous battles. The developers decided to make it into a game after they realized the obvious marketability of it. I believe it even got a few "Best RTS" awards the year it originally came out

[Hadriel]

R: TW actually started as software used by the National Geographic/History Channel in their digital recreations of famous battles. The developers decided to make it into a game after they realized the obvious marketability of it. I believe it even got a few "Best RTS" awards the year it originally came out

You're right about the History Channel using it for the digital recreations, but the game was already in development before it was used for that. The medieval total war games are pretty fun too, if you're really into this kind of rts.

As for awards/recognition:

PC Gamer (UK): All time 5th best PC game "95%"
IGN: Editor's Choice Award, 4th Best PC Game of all Time.
PC Gamer (US): Editor's Choice, Best Strategy Game of 2004
GameSpot: Editor's Choice, Strategy Game of 2004
Adrenaline Vault: Seal of Excellence
GameSpy: Editor's Choice
E3 2003 Game Critics Awards: Best Strategy Game
X-Play: 5 out of 5
PC Powerplay: 95%

taken from Wikipedia.

[Paper]

I'm pretty sure (correct me if I'm wrong) that the Total War series (all of which base themselves around large scale RTS combat) goes like this

Shogun: Total War
Medieval: Total War
Rome: Total War
Medieval II: Total War
Empire: Total War---- Scheduled to Release Feb. of next year.

Here's the wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_W...eo_game_series)

[deprodigy]

I played a turn based text game call utopia for a few years. other than that im not a part of your community.

[D1lD0]

Rofl Utopia. Almost brings back memories of when I was part of the Absalom clan wars. I havent played in almost 5 years tho