Rome Total War: The Barbarian Invasion is the first expansion pack for the best strategy game ever created.As you may know that Rome Total War has received the Best Strategy Game reward from IGN.Barbarian Invasion focuses on the early Barbarian tribes and the events after the division of the Roman Empire.In this game the Roman Empire is now divided into Eastern and Western Roman Empire.The Eastern Empire is ruled from Rome and the Western is ruled from Constantinople.The biggest threat it faces in this game is from Persia, the land of the Sassanids. RTW:Barbarian Invasion a new concept has been introduced called the horde.The horde is a vast barbarian army which ...  Read the complete review

Barbarian Invasion continues the tradtion of outstanding Total War expansions. There's so much new content packed into this one CD that it almost feels like a new game. You get 20 new factions, several new gameplay features, improved graphics (especially shadows; you'll notice a distinct improvement while playing in a forest or city), a vastly improved AI, and new campaign with the potential to last you months. In case you haven't heard, Barbarian Invasion is hard. Very hard. Especially as the Western Roman Empire; it's by far the hardest campaign I've ever played, and I've played some pretty hard mods. I didn't understand how hard until I played it; as the ...  Read the complete review

First of all it should be noted that this is an expansion pack for the exellent game 'Rome total war', designed and created by the same people as other titles such as Medievil total war and Shogun total war. In the game you play as either the Eastern or Western Roman Empires fightng against the barbarian tribes of Francs and Huns (As well as some minor other ones). The strategy map is almost identical as you move around and attack much the same. The only exeption is with the 'Barbarian' tribes who once their homeland, i.e last territory, has been captured have the ability to form a horde. This includes the men who previously inhabited the town/city made into ...  Read the complete review