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The Finest Game in Existence Although years ago I used to play many electronic games on a variety of platforms, these days I rarely do. In fact it is safe to say that there are only three games I regularly play these days: Shogun: Total War, Medieval: Total War (and the splendid amteur mod, Napoleonic: Total War - almost a Total War game in its own right) and Rome: Total War. Rome is obviously the best of the three. With each passing addition the series gets better and better. My friends often accuse me of being a megalomaniac, and perhaps that's why I loved this game. It is on such a spectacular scale - like no other game. I've played battles with around 30,000 units on the map and they are simply spectacular - looking out over a sea of Roman legionairies, all standing in discplined ranks - it all looks like a scene out of the movie Troy (or the Nuremberg Rallies). But not only is this game visually spectacular, it has brilliant, in-depth game-play like none ever before. Diplomacy is a matter of trading provinces, money, making a variety of different treaties, intermarriage and variety of other factors. Managing one's civilisation involves intense micromanagement, but doesn't feel like a chore, as in some other games of this ilk. Raising armies, managing the economy, going to war, diplomacy, trade - all of these are great fun and offer the most realistic expierence of any PC game available. This is a revolution in gaming - even more impressive than Shogun was when it was first realeased. The deatail applied to everything is mind-boggling - graphics, game-play - everything. This is truly the finest game in existence.