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• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.1 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 8 reviews

The Bottom Line: Rome: Total War is the very definition of an epic strategy game. Read review

Specs: Teen, Creative Assembly, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.5 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 2 reviews

The Bottom Line: As a refinement of the Age of Empires legacy, Empires offers enough that's new to even appeal to those who aren't card-carrying RTS fans. Read review

Specs: Teen, Stainless Steel Studios, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.5 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Control problems, micromanagement, and other flaws often make Riot Police a lot less fun than it could have been. Read review

Specs: Teen, Zono Inc., Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Modern, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.7 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 3 reviews

The Bottom Line: Medieval: Total War achieves that rare quality of having something for nearly all strategy gamers, and most will find a lot to like in it, for a very long time. Read review

Specs: Teen, Creative Assembly, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Teen, Creative Assembly, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.2 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: This expansion is for those who already played Medieval and want more of the same. The Vikings campaign is great fun, and the Vikings themselves are a blast to play. Read review

Specs: Teen, Creative Assembly, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  1.0 stars Terrible

  Overall score: 2.8 (1.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Crusades: Quest for Power may bear the logo of The History Channel, but the only thing this half-baked RTS teaches us is a lesson in terrible game design. Read review

Specs: Teen, Zono Inc., Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.7 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Rise of the Shadowhand accomplishes the challenging feat of significantly improving one of last year's best and most complex real-time strategy games. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Activision, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Sci-Fi, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.1 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Despite its powerful and extremely attractive 3D graphics engine, Dark Reign 2 ultimately fails to tread much new ground. Read review

Specs: Teen, Pandemic Studios, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Sci-Fi, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Teen, Creative Assembly, Strategy, Strategy / tactics / wargame - wargame, Historical, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.5 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It's a linear, repetitive, tedious game that ignores almost every lesson it should have learned from previous, more successful tactical combat games. Read review

Specs: Teen, Reflexive Entertainment, Strategy, General Strategy, Science-fiction, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.1 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The game's unique style and epic story, along with its low retail price, make it worth checking out for anyone looking to try something different. Read review

Specs: Teen, Smilebit, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Fantasy, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Teen, Zono Inc., Strategy, 1 Player