Rome: Total War

Merged turn-based empire management with thousands-strong real-time battles at cinematic scale.

Released 2004 Developer Creative Assembly Publisher Activision Platform PC Genre Strategy Era Broadband & the console shooter Website feralinteractive.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Rome: Total War inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Turn-Based 4X Empire ~~1991~~Fog of War ~~1992~~True Polygonal Free-Look Space ~~1996~~Directed In-Engine Camera Language ~~1998~~

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