Rome: Total War has won many strategy gaming awards for its realistic campaign and battlefield animation and interface. This game was also added to mobile, offering a simplified version of the original game. The series has also spawned several popular mods such as Europa Barbarorum and Rome: Total Realism each of which seeks to create more historically accurate settings. A compilation of the original game and the two expansions, Rome: Total War Anthology, was released on 16 March 2007. A second expansion pack, Rome: Total War: Alexander, was released on 19 June 2006.

A Mac version of Rome: Total War Gold Edition, developed by Feral Interactive, was released 12 February 2010.

A CD-ROM version (a total of four CDs) was also produced. Rome: Total War Gold Edition, which combined the fully patched versions of the original game and its first expansion into one DVD (instead of the original game's three CD-ROMs), was released on 14 February 2006. The first expansion pack, Barbarian Invasion, was released on 27 September 2005. This was the first game to encompass what would become one of the most fundamental additions to the Total War series, free map movement as opposed to earlier versions where all movement was province-based. Released in 2004, Rome: Total War is set in the Roman Republic. 1.12 Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia.

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