Rome: Total War

Set during the rule of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, Rome: Total War is a real-time tactics and turn-based strategy game that takes place across Europe, North Africa and the Near East…

91 22 September 2004 5 cheats

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Simulator Strategy Tactical Turn-based strategy (TBS) Historical Warfare

Rome: Total War is a real time strategy (rts) developed by The Creative Assembly, released 22 September 2004 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.

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What Rome: Total War is

Rome: Total War is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2004. It was published by Activision. It is available on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on TW Engine 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Rome: Total War is a strategy video game developed by The Creative Assembly and originally published by Activision; its publishing rights have since passed to Sega. The game was released for Microsoft Windows in 2004. The Mac OS X version was released on February 5, 2010, by Feral Interactive, who also released the iPad version on November 10, 2016, the iPhone version on August 23, 2018, and the Android version on December 19, 2018. The game is the third title in The Creative Assembly's Total War series, following Shogun: Total War, and Medieval: Total War.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Total War series

Rome: Total War is the third of 56 entries we hold in the Total War series. It arrived 2 years after Medieval: Total War. The next entry was Spartan: Total Warrior in 2005. Its critic score of 91 is 8 points above the series average of 83. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Rome: Total War holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 325 votes.

What it launched against

Rome: Total War launched on 22 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Rome: Total War — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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