| | Pc Gamer have got their hands on the demo of Rome Totalwar, They clearly rated it very high, and a must have. We've got our hands on the review, thanks to MiniKiller.
Its under the section "20 best games of E3"
Stunning Strategy in full 3D
Rome: Total War (Release date: 2004)
After seeing the demo for Rome: Total War, the upcoming third installment in the Total War series, I was literally speechless. Yes, it really looked that good.
First off, the battles are now rendered in glorious 3D. All of the models are fully polygonal and detailed with 3,000 motion-captured movements. With battles that will feature upward of 12,000 to 13,000 men, the new graphics infuse the entire experience with a more epic, gritty flavor as dust flies when your troops rush across the ground and swarms of men stream up ladders to attack the soldiers defending a city's ramparts.
The most impressive site was a horde of Carthaginian elephants, their riders charging them into a neatly ordered infantry line, trampling these poor soldiers underfoot or smashing them with their tusks and sending them flying through the air. It was an utterly fantastic display.
Beyond splendid eye candy in the organized troop lines, the cities also look marvelous. All of the buildings and structures that you creat in the strategic map mode appear on the battle map, and all of them can be destroyed, burned, and otherwise pulverized.
The strategic map is also being overhauled. It covers the same basic territory as Medieval's map, but instead of you sliding pieces around, they now animate, and you can see your troops march toward their destination. Also, the geography of the strategic map will match the battle map, so if you launch an attack in a forest, the battle will be set in a forest.
This game is at the top of my must-have list.
-William Harms
 Stormer
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