If you're coming from Total War: Three Kingdoms or Total War: Warhammer 2, the various Gauls, Greeks, and Carthaginians you'll match wits against here won't feel like much of a match at all. Strategy games in general, and Total War specifically, have evolved so much in the last 18 years that going back to the original Rome can be deflating. In most other ways, it's simply fallen too far behind the times.But in most other ways, it's simply fallen too far behind the times. It adds just a bit of extra immersion and sense of place if you can't ring Mithridates up on the phone to offer a trade deal. There are even a couple things in here I think the original Rome did better than the games that came after it, like having to physically send a diplomat across the map to treat with other factions. Dividing Rome itself up into three factions that are set off in three different directions to conquer, before ultimately meeting each other in a bloody civil war at the end, was a fantastically effective way to keep the late game challenging and interesting with fairly simple, transparent mechanics. Rome: Total War was ahead of its time in so many ways when it came out, and all of those great ideas are still here. And that's kind of a running theme with this remaster: they made an old game feel less old, but they certainly didn't make it feel new again.
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