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Shogun is the best with ninjas and samurais!

While I think Rome is better than Medieval I, I fucking played Medieval for ages until I decided to move onto Rome. They both have some negatives and positives.

The lacking feature in Rome that's featured in Medieval is being able to start from certain ages. You could excuse Rome for being only 200 years, but it's still really fun to play France either when it was getting it's ass kicked by Britain, or after it becomes a formidable power. It's also more fun to be able to play with pre-developed cities already and play with high units, while your enemies are also on even ground.

The disadvantage/advantage of Medieval was how there'll usually be one or two major superpower that'll emerge eventually. While in Rome the only major super powers you really had to worry about were the Roman states, Egypt, and possibly Britania/Germania. In Medieval, when you get the hang of the game, you actually control the flow of the game, sabotaging super powers, and cutting the heads off of emerging powers before they become too long. Alliances felt slightly more worthwhile in Medieval, as nations were more hungry for war (which can be seen as a disadvantage).

I could go on and on. I never played Shogun, but Medieval was a good fucking game man, and Rome was a revamp of the series in the postive direction.

Well I've seen a few mentions of 390k in the United States (npd), but I can't find a reliable source. That is also data from almost three years ago.

It also seems to be in the D2D top 10 each week, or at least the 3 weeks in March I found.

so does every1 think it sold at least a million? This is good for a company, pretty close to me :)

It was certainly a success, it did have 2 expansion packs, I am sure it has sold several million, it was a fantastic game

Hmm. Oblivion on PC only sold like 5-600,000 copies in the US, so I really doubt Rome sold that much.

I thought Barbarian invasion was alot of fun, and especially challenging if you played as the western empire. A little balance problem because of horse archers though (as the vandals I would use all my ammo and then retreat, leaving the enemy with half their army and all of mine) I do admit they balanced the base Rome game after that one particular patch though.
I still haven't gotten alexander, I need to though. I'll keep looking for RTW:eras I guess.