Rome: Total War: Alexander

Rome: Total War: Alexander
Studio	Creative Assembly Feral Interactive (Mac version)
Publisher	Sega Feral Interactive (Mac version)
Erstveröffent- lichung	Windows June 19, 2006 September 15, 2006 Mac OS X February 27, 2014 iPad July 27, 2017
platform	Windows , Mac OS X
genre	Combination of real-time strategy game and turn-based strategy game
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer (real-time mode only)
control	Mouse , keyboard
system advantages preconditions	OS : Windows 98 / 2000 / ME / XP CPU : 1 GHz RAM : 256 MB Graphics card : 64 MB Storage requirement (HDD) : 3.4 GB
medium	CD-ROM , download
language	German
Age rating	USK PEGI

Rome: Total War: Alexander is the second add-on for the strategy game Rome: Total War from 2004. It was developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega in 2006. A MacOS version of Feral Interactive was released in February 2014, a standalone app for iPad (also developed by Feral ) was released on July 27, 2017.

The add-on addresses the campaigns of Alexander the Great . The player takes on the role of the Macedonian king and tries to develop his kingdom into a world power.

Gameplay

General

The Persian Empire at the time of Alexander

In Alexander the player takes control of the kingdom of Macedonia at the time of Alexander the great and tries to expand its influence by military means. The game is divided into a turn-based and a real-time game mode. The turn-based part of the game takes place on a campaign map, on which the player controls the economic, political and military development of his nation through building buildings in cities, army movements, attacks, defenses or the use of agents. The real-time part is represented by the battles that arise when armies of rival nations meet. The player then takes control of an army and fights the opposing troops on the battlefield.

Innovations

Alexander includes bigger gameplay changes than the first expansion, Barbarian Invasion . The military part has come to the fore, the administration and expansion of one's own empire play only a subordinate role. The campaign is designed as a non-stop war of aggression, as the goal of the game is to conquer Persia within a certain time frame.

Factions

Unlike in Rome: Total War and Barbarian Invasion , the player does not have a free choice of factions, since only the Macedonians are playable. Another change is the abolition of diplomacy between peoples. The player is permanently at war with the other factions and cannot conclude any agreements with his neighbors.

Overview of the political groups
fraction	Culture	Playability	Remarks
Macedonia	Greek	playable
Persia	Persian	not playable
Illyria	barbaric	not playable
Scythia	barbaric	not playable
Dahae	Persian	not playable
Paurava	Indian	not playable	first and only Indian faction in Rome: Total War

reception

reviews publication Rating GameSpot 8.5 / 10 IGN 8.8 / 10 PC Games 78% Meta-ratings GameRankings 91.75% Metacritic 92/100

Rome: Total War: Alexander was rated similar to the main game. It received very good meta ratings with 92 out of 100 points for Metacritic and 91.75% for GameRankings .

The editors of the German magazine PC Games praised the ability of artificial intelligence on the world map. In tactical combat, however, this suffered from failures. It is criticized that the innovations were overall sparse.

Steve Butts from IGN criticized in his assessment that the campaign was designed too one-dimensional and that it lacked variety. Graphically, however, the title would have improved.

Web links

• Rome: Total War: Alexander at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benjamin Jakobs: Rome: Total War - Alexander is coming out this week for the iPad. In: Eurogamer.de. July 25, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Steve Butts: Test "Rome: Total War: Alexander". IGN Entertainment, June 20, 2006, accessed May 31, 2014 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Test "Rome: Total War: Alexander". PC Games, accessed June 2, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Brett Todd: Test "Rome: Total War: Alexander". In: GameSpot . CBS Corporation , June 20, 2006, accessed May 31, 2014 . 
5. ^ Meta evaluation "Rome: Total War: Alexander". In: GameRankings . CBS Corporation , accessed May 31, 2014 . 
6. ^ Meta evaluation "Rome: Total War: Alexander". In: Metacritic . CBS Corporation , accessed May 31, 2014 .