Will you take Hannibal's Carthage to victory, expand relentlessly as one of several Roman families, or rewrite history as the Gauls? After an extended prologue, during which you control the Roman empire while crushing some feeble Samnite opposition, the campaign lets you choose from nine starting factions and then try to take over the ancient world. There are a lot of ways to play Rome II, which may be one of its underlying problems, but the meat of the game is in campaign mode. In a game about conquest and battles, after all, history offers no finer subject than the Roman empire.
A ve readers – those of you who bought Total War: Rome II, I salute you! My anticipation for this game could not be contained the latest in developer Creative Assembly's Total War series, Rome II is also the long-awaited sequel to its most beloved entry and bears no small expectation.
