Rome: Total War - Collection
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player commands massed military units in real-time battles where soldiers are struck with swords, spears and arrows; blood is shown and bodies remain on the field, but there is no dismemberment or gore focus.
The setting is ancient warfare and conquest, and captured cities can be sacked or their populations wiped out through an abstracted menu choice rather than any on-screen depiction.
War elephants, war dogs and cavalry horses fight and are killed as ordinary battlefield units.
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What it is
Rome: Total War is a historical grand-strategy game set during the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. On a turn-based campaign map you build cities, manage economies, conduct diplomacy and raise armies; when armies meet, play switches to real-time battles where you maneuver thousands of soldiers in formations and watch them clash with swords, spears, arrows and siege weapons. Combat is the core of the game: troops are killed on screen with blood and fallen bodies, though the aged graphics keep individual soldiers small and there is no gore or dismemberment. War animals like elephants and dogs fight as battlefield units. Conquest is bleak in the abstract — captured cities can be sacked and their inhabitants exterminated through a menu choice — but this is conveyed through numbers and text rather than shown. The Collection has no in-app purchases and offers optional online multiplayer battles with no in-game voice or text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames warfare as a strategic contest of empires, rewarding conquest, tactical skill and expansion; the human cost of campaigns and city destruction is present as historical backdrop and abstracted campaign choices rather than dwelt on graphically.
Details
- Developer
- CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Released
- Aug 28, 2007
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