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Rome: Total War has been my favorite strategy game for the past few years. I've had to stay in the Windows world, though, since there wasn't a native Mac version.

I've been kicking the tires of Feral's Mac port for the past couple of days using the Rome: Total Realism Platinum mod (which Feral has also enabled for the Mac, along with a couple of the other most popular mods). No problems so far; the game has been flawless, with no crashes or observed bugs. Thumbs up to Feral not only for bringing the vanilla game over to the Mac world, but for enabling the more historically accurate variants too -it really makes the game much more enjoyable. You can read detailed instructions on how to enable the mods on Feral's forum on Facebook ().

The only negative comment I can make at this point is that it puts a heavy load on my system (2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro). The Activity Monitor maxes out while I'm running the game, even in campaign mode (which I thought should tax the system less than the battle mode). The keyboard gets uncomfortably hot and the fans go at max speed. Make sure your system is up to the task!

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I originally played this game for the PC and was excited when it finally came out for mac. My impression has been mixed.

Rome: Total War

This is the better of the two games. I first started playing as Brutii and so far so good. I have had no problems. However, when I tried the game as Gaul, problems started to arise. I was besieged early on by a Roman army, but when I tried to attack with the army in the settlement, the game just froze. On one settlement, there were added buildings to one of the religious buildings (5 tiers of upgrades instead of the usual 3).

Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion

This is the game I have had problems with. I started playing with the Franks. When I tried to capture the Saxons capital, the game crashed. I tried several ways (play the battle out, auto-resolve, etc.) but the game crashed each time. The same thing happened when I played as the Saxons trying to take London from the Romano-British.

Overall, the game has been fun to play. Other than the above mentioned problems, the game play has been very smooth. I am hoping a future update will fix some of these problems. I have sent an email to Ferral Support, and am still waiting to hear back. Until then, I will give the game 3 stars for the conversion problems.

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The total war series as a whole is amazing.With a campaign map of Europe where cities are developed and forces moved on a turn by turn basis, and then real time field and siege battles, they have a formula which is unique and amazingly addicting. However, despite the many advances after Rome,I still find it to be my favorite. Something about the feel of Roman legions cutting down barbarians and the true epicness of the empire you can create is dear at heart to me.

This game is also one of the most realistic games I know,economy's require skill to maintain armies have to be marched over a series of turns to reach their foes,and the battles themselves have realistic unit sizes with a moral system that means more than just saying, attack here.And if your thinking that charging your cavalry onto a line of phalanxes will get the job done then you will be in for a quick lesson as to what happens when a long spear impales a horse right through the heart.

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Overall its a great game as is to be expected from the Total War line. I own this game in both the PC and Mac version and the PC runs more smoothly but both will periodically freeze and kick you out of the game.

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This game is exactly like the windows version(as it should be) No weird crashes, bugs or features. The only differences are the online play(which nobody plays anyway) and the not very many mods out their for mac version. All the cool skins/levels/mods are all windows so unless people start modding mac version, you wont find any.

If you want this game and have a mac, this works just fine.