Differences Between Each Title?

[catpybro861]

Hello this is my first TW game and I was wondering what was different about the stuff in the collection (Rome, Alexander, Invasion). Are they all separate games or the same game with new stuff in each one?

[jtordoff]

They are different games, unrelated to each other

[catpybro861]

Thanks!

[hagakuremoi]

Alexander: It follows specifically the campaign of Alexander The Great from 336 BC to 286 BC

Rome 1: It covers from 270 BC to 14 AD

Barbarian Invasion: It covers from 336 AD to 476 AD, basically the fall of the roman empire.

[Red Spot]

They are the same games. Same engine, same foundation. From Rome to BI to Alex there have some minor tweaks but you'd have difficulty noticing the differences (like from Rome to BI the AI has a bigger liking to do naval invasions).

The games are however vastly different in how they play. Rome is the basic campaign, BI is more about survival and adds a lot to the difficulty of the game. Never played Alex, but it probably puts the focus somewhere else beyond just being in a different time-frame.

[Sebasta]

Originally posted by Red Spot:

They are the same games. Same engine, same foundation. From Rome to BI to Alex there have some minor tweaks but you'd have difficulty noticing the differences (like from Rome to BI the AI has a bigger liking to do naval invasions).

The games are however vastly different in how they play. Rome is the basic campaign, BI is more about survival and adds a lot to the difficulty of the game. Never played Alex, but it probably puts the focus somewhere else beyond just being in a different time-frame.

Alexander campaign is focused on Alexander's march against the Persians. Pretty much a campaign between two major powers. Hard in the beginning, but gets easy quite quickly. Also has a few historical battles that Alexander fought.

[Jambie Lionheart]

They're somewhat unrelated to each other in setting. They occupy the same map area however time scale wise they centre around the rise ad fall of rome with Alexander being a wee bit before the rise and arguably had a direct impact on Romes rise to power in that had Alexander not died when he did, THEY may have been the dominant power in the meds region instead of the Romans, whom may not have even pushed outside of Italy. Though I guess technically, Alexanders map focuses more on the eastern side of the Med.

Alexandria is a stand alone now but used to need Rome total war as a base game and BI is a direct expansion from the base game itself. Expansions are what DLC used to be called when people still bought them from retail stores :P and in that sense they are quite related. Barbarian invasion still needs Rome: Total War as a base as far as I know but they're basically installed together now on steam.