Rome: Total War Alexander Review

Can’t get enough of Rome: Total War, but completed all the campaigns and now want something new? Give the new expansion Rome: Total War Alexander a try. Obviously the Alexander in the title refers to the great leader Alexander the Great. According to GameSpot this expansion contains quite a few difficult missions, more difficult than the ones you’ve seen so far. Please note that this is a download-only expansion at the time this post was made, with a price tag of 14.95 USD it’s definitely worth picking up. Rome: Total War Alexander contains 1 campaign and 6 historical battles, plus several new multiplayer options.

The add-on’s scope is a bit more limited than the previous Rome: Total War expansion pack, Barbarian Invasion, as befitting its download-only distribution at a cut-rate price of $14.95. For that fee, you get one campaign encompassing Alexander’s blitz of the Near East, six historical battles from Alexander’s early career, and new multiplayer options, where you can set up two-on-one and three-on-one matches and tournaments online.

This content is more than enough, though, largely because the campaign is so challenging that most players will spend many, many hours experimenting with different ways to beat it. It changes the focus of the original Rome: Total War by dropping any pretense of building and diplomacy in favor of a 100-turn slugfest that favors battles over Rome’s turn-based deliberation, so if you’re expecting lots of political intrigue and empire-building, you might not find what you’re looking for. This is a Macedonian rush to get Big Al roughly to the border of India while holding 30 provinces before the clock runs out and the gods spirit him away to Olympus (or he gets drunk and dies, depending on which version you want to believe). While you still can play around with fortifying conquered towns and setting up garrisons (there is no diplomacy available at all here), to do so means that you’ll never occupy enough areas before the sands run through the hourglass and Alexander’s life comes to a youthful end.

CLICK HERE to read the full review at GameSpot.

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