Rome Total War Gold Edition

Brand New

Factory Sealed Retail Box

Uniting the multi-award winning Rome: Total War and its official expansion pack, Barbarian Invasion, you must guide history's greatest armies to their finest victories.

Play as one of three great Roman families, whose thirst for power will stop at nothing. You must use military genius to build an empire that stretches across Europe and Africa. Finally march on Rome to seize control of the greatest empire in the world . Then, in Barbarian Invasion, having built your empire, you can defend it, as either the Eastern or Western roman Empire, or lead a Barbarian horde and bring the once mighty empire to its knees.  Original UK release as pictured above - 100% English.

Create, rule, conquer and manipulate the Roman Republic and Empire to become the "Imperator" of Rome in this award-winning game from the highly-acclaimed Total War series. Fight as, or against ancient history's most legendary generals including Julius Caesar, Hannibal and the rebel Spartacus.

From the Punic Wars against Carthage to the death of Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, control mighty armies of up to 10,000 fully polygonal, highly detailed, motion-captured warriors clashing in panoramic real-time battles. At your disposal are over a hundred different troop types including legionaries, hoplites, barbarian hordes, war elephants, gladiators and scythe chariots to colossal war machines such as siege towers, battering rams and catapults hurling flaming missiles. The stage is set for carnage on more than 10,000 unique battlefields based on the topography of Europe and North Africa.

Conflict is not the only way to gain favor with the senate and people of Rome, however, as politics, diplomacy the gladiatorial games will play key roles in your quest to be declared Imperator. Dominate and reign over one of the most powerful empires in history.

Features:

• Fun for novice or expert gamers, includes tutorial

• Play online with up to 8 friends

• Build your empire across the Roman world through diplomacy and war

• Total War engine creates spectacular, cinematic graphics

• Epic real-time battles with up to 10,000 3D units on screen at once

With this official expansion pack to the award-winning Rome: Total War, the action takes place 350 years later when the Roman Empire is beset by enemies inside and out. The year is 363 A.D., and the Roman Empire has split into two parts ruled from the cities of Rome and Constantinople. Barbarian tribes are massing on the Imperial frontiers and there are many, many challenges for a Roman to face - and some may be almost unbeatable!

A seemingly unstoppable tide of barbarian invaders is massing on the borders of a fractured Roman Empire. Choose to take control of the barbarian hordes and tear apart the world's mightiest ancient empire, or take command of massed Roman legions and change the course of history forever! Barbarian Invasion is the new expansion to the million-selling, multi-award-winning PC strategy game Rome: Total War. Set in a time 200 years after the main campaign of Rome: Total War, Barbarian Invasion presents an entirely redrawn campaign map reflecting two centuries of change and turmoil across the Roman Empire. Ten new playable factions have entered the fray - all with new buildings, units and technologies to exploit. The threats to Rome are as brutal as they are varied - from Sassanid war elephants and lethal Frank axe throwers to ferocious Hun riders. The epic war to decide the fate of the world's grandest empire is now yours to control!

Features:

• Requires Rome: Total War to play

• Command vast armies to decide the fate of the Roman Empire in the massive expansion to worldwide smash hit Rome: Total War.

• Redesigned campaign map reflects 200 years of change and turmoil.

• Updated gameplay features the hordes, character loyalty and Roman civil wars. Barbarians can also relocate to a new homeland after losing their last settlement as a mass migration of the tribe.

• Ten new playable factions come with an expanded barbarian tech tree, over 100 new battlefield units, new buildings, ancillary characters, vices and virtues, military commands, holy relics, new offices of state and much more!

• Night battles: hugely atmospheric battles and combat effects with added tactical challenges.

• Original battle AI and tactics: factions have distinct fighting styles - utilize shield walls with barbarian elites, confound cavalry with the schiltron defensive 'hedgehog' with spears, outflank and surprise defenders on bridges with swimming units, and much more.

• Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP (English)

• Pentium III 1.0GHz (1000MHz) or Athlon 1.0GHz (1000MHz) processor or higher

• 256MB of RAM

• DVD-ROM Drive and latest drivers

• 2.9GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 500MB for Windows swap file)

• 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required

• 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers

• 16-bit sound card and latest drivers

• Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers

• DirectX 9.0c (included)

• 1024x768 Monitor Resolution

• Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported, Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers, LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers.