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Rome: Total War is a grand strategy computer game where players fight historical and fictious battles during the era of the Roman Republic. The game was developed by Creative Assembly and released on September 22, 2004. A demo of the game, which features a playable version of The Battle of the River Trebia, with the player taking the role of Hannibal, was released on August 23, 2004 and is freely available for downloading.
The game features large scale battles of ancient armies with tens of thousands of warriors. The main innovation is a brand new high-quality 3D graphics engine that allows reproduction of large scale battles realistically. 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.
 View of a battlefield in Rome: Total WarThe player can take the role of generals such as Hannibal, the brilliant Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War, the Gallic warlord Vercingetorix, and Julius Caesar. Among the playable factions are three Roman families (Julii, Brutii, Scipii), the free Greek city-states, Carthage, Gaul, Britannia, Germania, Parthia and the successor states of the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt. Unlike Medieval or Shogun: Total War, there are also many non-playable factions, including the Dacians, Numidians, Scythians and Armenians.
The gameplay is similar to that of its predecessors, Shogun: Total War and Medieval: Total War, although there are some additions like sieges and greatly improved city fights.
Thanks to the realism of both the simulation and the graphics, even before its release the game was used in two series of TV programs: Decisive Battles by the History Channel where it was used to recreate famous historical battles, and Time Commanders by BBC Two, where teams of novice nongamers commanded ancient armies to replay key battles of antiquity.
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