Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion
The first expansion pack for Rome: Total War, Barbarian Invasion takes the action forward in time 349 years after the end of the original game. Beginning in 363 AD and ending in 476 AD (although the player can choose to continue beyond this point if they see fit), it depicts the great migrations of the Germanic and steppe peoples (notably the Huns) and simulates the religious tension of the time as the three religions of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Paganism fight for dominance.
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DeveloperThe Creative Assembly
PublisherFeral Interactive, Sega
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2005
StatusReleased
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About This Game
By this point Rome has matured into an empire and fractured into Western and Eastern halves, governed from Rome and Constantinople respectively. The empire's many provinces stand in for the factions of the base game, now folded into a single realm. The "Barbarians" of the title are the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Franks, Burgundians and Lombards, whose individual rise and consolidation give them the strength to march on the empire — the spark that sets the campaign in motion.