Total War: Rome II 2013

Is it still worth playing?

Creative Assembly's strategy game, released for Windows in September 2013 as the eighth standalone Total War. It is set in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Near East in Classical antiquity. The campaign begins in 272 BC and lasts 300 years, with no timed victory conditions. It blends turn based grand strategy with real time tactical battles, and new unit cameras let you focus on individual soldiers on a battlefield that may hold thousands. Soldiers react as comrades fall, and officers inspire men with speeches. Minor states are individual nations and city-states with factions of their own, and each ethnic group plays differently. A camera that follows individual soldiers ties the campaign map to the fight it causes, and that link still matters.