Rome: Total War II

[Dan Howard]

I played the first Rome TW to death when it came out. I preferred to play it as a strategic-world-conquering type game and often skipped the tactical battles entirely. From the reviews it seems that the new one can't be played like this. It seems that the only good part of the game is the tactical battles on the 3d maps, which doesn't interest me as much as the rest of the gameplay.