Two world dominating games in one

Uniting in multi-award winning Rome: Total War and its official expansion pack, Alexander, you must guide history's greatest armies to their finest victories.? Play as one of the great Roman families, whose thirst for power will stop at nothing. You must use military genius to build an empire that stretches across Europe and Africa. Finally, march on Rome to seize control of the greatest empire in the world. Then in Alexander, move further eastward into Macedonia and the Persian Empire. Six historical battles offer you the chance to experience Alexander's key clashes. Can you match or even beat the feats of history's greatest military genius?

• Rome: Total War
• Rome: Total War Alexander

Rome Total War

Storm Clouds gather over Europe, Asia and North Africa as mighty armies march forward in Rome: Total War. Command the greatest forces of the ancient world, including Roman Legions, Carthage and Gaul; lay to civilizations using powerful war engines; and decimate your enemies using special units like ferocious war dogs, armored elephants or Scythed chariots. In Rome: Total War, the most epic, cinematic real-time 3D battles ever seen in a game come to life with awe-inspiring graphics. Vast armies are led by brilliant generals such as Hannibal, leader of the Carthaginians and Julius Caesar, Rome's greatest general and leader. The mightiest armies and the most brilliant commanders of ancient times clash in an epic war game only Total War can create.

Features:

• Easily manage vast cities and gigantic battles with the aid of advisors, auto managing tools and pick-up-and-play controls.
• Forge an empire on the revolutionary 3D campaign map with an intuitive display of your cities and armies.
• Command unique units, from Carthaginian elephants and Scythed war chariots to Roma war Dogs, using intuitive controls.

Rome Total War Alexander

An all new campaign map extends the Rome: Total War experience further Eastward than ever before, taking you into Macedonia and the Persian Empire. A host of new content includes four new factions and 60 all new units such as Alexander's Phalangists. Six new historical battles offer you the chance to experience Alexander's key clashes and a redesigned campaign game forces you to press ever onward or risk failing to match Alexander's ferocious pace of conquest. For the committed Rome: Total War fan, Alexander sets further challenges and a new gameplay experience that adds to the legendary reputation of the Total War series.

Features:

• Experience battles as never before with 3 new factions including Alexanders Macedonians, the Persians of King Darius and the mighty Indians.
• Expand your Empire with a campaign map which stretches further East than ever before.
• Command 60 new units including Alexander's phalangists, hypaspists and the companion cavalry, all fully playable in custom and multiplayer battles.

• Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP
• Pentium III 1.0 GHz (1000MHz) or Athlon 1.0 GHz (1000MHz) processor or higher
• 256 MB of RAM
• 2.9 GB of uncompressed free Hard Disk space (plus 500MB for Windows swap file)
• DVD-ROM drive and latest drivers
• 100% DirectX 9.0c-compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
• 100% Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP-compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
• DirectX 9.0c (included)
• 1024x768 Monitor Resolution
• 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated Video Card and the latest drivers*.

*Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipsets listed here may not be compatible with the 3D acceleration features utilized by Rome: Total War. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer for 100% DirectX 9.0c compatibility.

Multiplayer Requirements:

• Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported.
• Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers.
• LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers.
• ATI Radeon 8500
• ATI Radeon 9000
• ATI Radeon 9500
• ATI Radeon 9600
• ATI Radeon 9700
• ATI Radeon 9800
• All Nvidia GeForce 3 and higher

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