

An expansion then asked players to follow the campaigns of Alexander the Great.


In Rome: Total War (2004), players sided with one of several competing family dynasties in the Roman Republic. The pleasure is located in both the sense of mastering a continent in its turn-based macro mode, and manipulating a field of soldiers to success in its real-time micro mode. The designers present you with a huge canvas and your job is to fill it. Generally in Total War, players assume control of a faction vying for control of a country, or a country vying for control of the world.
