I remember I showed my dad this footage but when he saw the graphics, he derided the game and walked away. I later excommunicated him, but for other reasons.
I’ve always loved the way that it presents the carthaginians and the parthians as the actual Villains here, with the barbarians having to be bailed out repeatedly and the Carthaginians basically going ‘deploy elephant’ when trouble arises.
I hate those Carthaginian elephant riders ! i'm also not a fan of pink pajama people. Luckily many mods tried for historical accuracy to varying degrees.
when I first saw this intro way back in 2004, I knew I was in for a treat and honestly, this game changed me. I didn't really like history as a kid, Rome total war changed that for me.
When I first bought this game and saw this for the first time the chills were UNREAL Edit: the way at 1:46 the elephant roars match with the music makes this perfect
Playing Total Warhammer 2 right now, and I'm struck by just how kickass Rome's music is compared to any that came after. It can make even an in-engine cutscene without dialogue and lousy models hype me up despite the almost 20 year gap between the two titles
Yeah CA could add so much atmosphere to newer games with a better soundtrack, as in more "emotional" than just their modern OST which feel designed to win technical awards.
Agreed 100% on the music. A week ago I got the remastered version and the first time "Divinitas" started up I was grinning like an idiot because it felt like I was home.
A Rome total war Remastered with everything Rome 1 had that Rome 2 took away. A small list to just lay down what NEEEDS to be kept (that Rome 2 took away) -Unit Collision (big flipping Numero Uno) -General Speeches -Rome 1 campaign. Literally all of it back. Let me list it. •R1 Diplomacy •R1 Army mobility •R1 Campaign Ai. With good Strategy to decree War. Decree Peace, decree trade and plan and do actions made for the future (in essence be 100 turns ahead of the game) •Killing a faction leads to playing that faction. No DLC that is intended to lock out what we had years ago for free. ((Back to regular points) -R1 Battle AI . Needs to be efficient with using troops doing massive damage with little to no losses and planning Hammer & anvil tatics and reserves and cause routing and shock tatics etc. -BRING BACK THE MUSIC QUALITY ! heck even bring a female Jeff Van Dyck to do the music making it even more dramatic. Or simpler yet, touch Jeff Van Dyck's shoulder for advice. Bribe 1 million for him I don't care he's valuable. •We can always mention what Rome 1 did better. And I'll say that my mouthful of advice is it. But by golly if we get a R1 remastered, revamped, revised. If we get R1 with everything it had make NO changes ((listen, what I'll say next isn't difficult to do. But in practice it is.)), "don't do anything than what was done before", don't change anything. Just keep it going as it R1, was. End
@@heyitsamy1771 its just not the same. I had to really zoom in and listen close for it. The OG game made it cinematic and epic, and you watched your men get pumped for the battle ahead.
Been playing this game since I was 12 years old, I’m a grown man now 24 years of age and I still cry watching this. This is my entire childhood. And I have my father to thank for giving me a hell of a childhood and a hell of a game that I still play today. I love you dad. Thank you.🥹
Age of Empires, Stronghold, Civilization, Total War, and to some extent Empire Earth were the games that heightened by interest in history. And the Crusader Kings 2 came with its DLCs, showing how fun alternate history can be and how the best kind of RPGs are the one where you can really play a role while the game provides the tool to build the narrative.
The newer ones don't feel as fun from a player perspective and don't feel as loved by the creators, rather soulless and more focused on stat balancing.
I remember playing this game for the first time back in 2005. Back than I lived in Germany and a friend of mine who came from America owned this game. RTW was really amazing.
I just noticed. Thats the siege of Minas Tirith and Pelennor Field if you think about it. The barbarians/gauls are the Orcs. The roman cav charge are the Rohirrim saving the battle. The Carthaginians elephants the Mumakil. The battering ram shot is Grond. The elephants charging the gate are the Olog-Hai.
+1 have to agree, Rome 2 is still lacklustre in many ways, it's like a bleached version of Rome 1. Do you think CA will remake the Med 2 intro if we get a Remaster ?
Bear in mind this game released in the same year as Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 and it still stands today as a (yes dated) but landmark part of the strategy genre. The fact it's graphics are pretty decent for the time and yet also stretched to a game which can encompass 1000s of units per battle still impresses me to this day
Cav charge, elephants, destroyed gate, generaly a siege, Rome 1 release date 2004 Lotr: Return of the King, release date 2003 If true, i took me 17 years to realise this
When this game was released i had no computer to play but i still bought the cd and i started saving money to play this game on my own computer and meanwhile i brought cd with me wherever i go and i still have it. This game is everything about my childhood :)
Growing up my dad would play this game a lot and I would literally just sit right next to him and watch him play, and everytime this intro would come we never skipped it. Now I’m 25 and I got it for myself it’s so good.
After watching the remastered intro. I came back to this and remember why Rome was so great. The remaster absolutely failed in capturing the same Majesty in this instance.
@@roteshere exactly seeing the remaster flub like this kinda gives off that lack of the same magic that made the original so compelling. Its a shame modern CA is in capable of doing what its predecessors did.
Gorbendo | Jodiendo con Humor Fuck RTW 2 graphics man .. i dont want my computer to clutter with useless shit like facial animations and other R2 shit ... Also Warscape sucks. So i will play free Europa Barbarorum 2 O!
I just realised that the Siege of Rome in this is just a reskinned Siege of Minas Tirith, right down to a devastating charge from cavalry reinforcements being countered by elephants.
Watching this today, STILL gives me chills . I have seen this countless times, I NEVER skipped the Intro . Still gives me chills . If aynone wants to showcase to anyone what TW has lost over time, show them this intro . And make em compare it to the intros of newer Titles .
Over a decade old but this game is spectacular, there is a remastered version of it this year 😏 Of all games to come across this has got to be up there with the best game intros! The very sight of a seige, multiple battles an armoured war elephants alone makes it exciting to. Begin with!!
This is probably one of the very few games that can make a very simple intro using only gameplay shots and in-game musics, yet it's INSANELY epic
Battlefront 2 as well.
That's what I loved about the old total war intro's that they were entirely made in game
@@floridaball4896 yeah. It shows you how epic and fun the game can be with NO QUESTIONS on whether you can actually do it in game or not!
and all games must do this using in game footage so as not to exceed player expectations. what you see is what you get. very simple yet effective
A wild screaming elephant!!!!
Someone: Oh man, I used to play Minecraft back in the day, it was awesome. So what was your childhood like?
Me: *shows this intro*
Why not both?
Garrett Johnson yeah,why not?
@@garrettjohnson343 I play minecraft these days :)
@@Dreadwaffle7
They're both great! :)
@@garrettjohnson343 because Minecraft is Easy Game And Every people can Play Than Total war
When I was child, I never skipped this intro scene. This was just too epic for me
Have to agree super atmospheric, no idea how many 100's certainly and possibly 1000's of times i've seen it.
“FORWARD!”
The music was just so perfect for us after all
I still do when I play this game. Luckily this game might be the easiest to modify ever so the fun never really ends for me
I still can't skip it now
That Praetorian cavalry charge is so epic!
Were those the horsemen in red ?
@@makedoneca3578 yes
Then that counter charge with the elephants👌
@@makedoneca3578 shut up
@@jerichamesclammay3107 What’s your deal saying shut up to a year-old comment?
Even after almost 20 years, this opening still amazes me, it was a masterpiece and still hold up today, what a legendry game.
Iconic and masterfully crafted
it really doesnt
its classic
This music intro is so fucking epic !
wish I would Know the name
+Adolf Hipster It's actually a mix of RTW soundtracks: Journey to Rome part 1, Journey to Rome part 2 and Melee Cafe :)
1:53 I like how catapult destroyed ally siege tower
Haha lol
Those are Onagers, you filthy casual.
When it’s your first day on the job and you cheated on all of your exams-
Nah, I'm pretty sure those are the Roman Onagers, the one that fired before the elephants arrive.
Those shots are coming from the same direction as the Pretorian Cavalry. I think it's a reinforcement Roman army with onagres.
Think the first time I saw this intro, I was literally salivating at the prospect of the game ahead :)
10 years later, i am still salivating...
15 years later, i am still salivating...
15 years and a month later im still salivating
Wesker Kings 15 years two months and 5hours later I’m playing the game and can’t get enough of the action.
@@hopelessent.1700 15 years and 6 month
I remember I showed my dad this footage but when he saw the graphics, he derided the game and walked away. I later excommunicated him, but for other reasons.
lol what happened
@@ethanmcfarland8240 Probably got dow'd by another Christian faction.
Benjamin Rogers Yeah, very funny. -_-
Awww
That sucks the graphics are great but not so gorey lol
00:55 LMFAO, that gremlin laugh.
Always amazed me how few people notice this "mwehhehe, I'm here, girls" laugh
You know EXACTLY why you are here.
We are reborn.
i just got sent a link on discord idk what dis is
Nostalgia
To serve Rome!
The best total war ever!
medieval 2 better imo
In my opinion medieval 2 is better
both, both is good
no glitching
@@badasstimmy1675more historical inaccuracies.
1:55 be like "whatever comes through those gates you are soldiers of rome, And you will stand your ground!"
1:56 *FLEE*
Aaannnd..its armored elephants F this!
Gandalf Voice LOL
@@budakbaongsiah They forgot the Volley of arrows at the elephants.
They won't if enemy is fierce
One word: Elephants
Dee Emm
four words: gaps between infantry lines
Dee Emm Two words: Head hurlers
*Cersei agrees*
Dat music though
I’ve always loved the way that it presents the carthaginians and the parthians as the actual
Villains here, with the barbarians having to be bailed out repeatedly and the Carthaginians basically going ‘deploy elephant’ when trouble arises.
I hate those Carthaginian elephant riders ! i'm also not a fan of pink pajama people. Luckily many mods tried for historical accuracy to varying degrees.
@@IceniTotalWarare you saying the Parthians didn't dress exclusively in pink pajamas and the Gauls in striped pants???
when I first saw this intro way back in 2004, I knew I was in for a treat and honestly, this game changed me. I didn't really like history as a kid, Rome total war changed that for me.
When I first bought this game and saw this for the first time the chills were UNREAL
Edit: the way at 1:46 the elephant roars match with the music makes this perfect
I vividly remember when my mom randomly bought it for me in 2006. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I first saw this opening video.
Marvel: "Infinity War is the most ambitious event in crossover history."
Me: "Gaul, Briton & Carthage coalition against Rome."
Could have changed World history if they were successful 😁
Mongol empire is the biggest empire of all time
1:47 Lord of the Ring: Return of the King
Elephants vs Cavalry! Too true!
I thought the same thing. The entire battle is somehow based from the battle of Minas Tirith from the third LotR film!
Haradrim and Rohahirm vs Romans and Carthgeians
They forgot Gandalf....
1:31 was the ride of rohirrim lol.
Carthage allied with Brits and Gauls? that's one hell of a alliance
"I hate rome" Club
+1 sign me up... well right after i finish my Julii campaign that is 😁@@fatnootz3466
Playing Total Warhammer 2 right now, and I'm struck by just how kickass Rome's music is compared to any that came after. It can make even an in-engine cutscene without dialogue and lousy models hype me up despite the almost 20 year gap between the two titles
Yeah CA could add so much atmosphere to newer games with a better soundtrack, as in more "emotional" than just their modern OST which feel designed to win technical awards.
Agreed 100% on the music. A week ago I got the remastered version and the first time "Divinitas" started up I was grinning like an idiot because it felt like I was home.
A Rome total war Remastered with everything Rome 1 had that Rome 2 took away.
A small list to just lay down what NEEEDS to be kept (that Rome 2 took away)
-Unit Collision (big flipping Numero Uno)
-General Speeches
-Rome 1 campaign. Literally all of it back. Let me list it.
•R1 Diplomacy
•R1 Army mobility
•R1 Campaign Ai. With good Strategy to decree War. Decree Peace, decree trade and plan and do actions made for the future (in essence be 100 turns ahead of the game)
•Killing a faction leads to playing that faction. No DLC that is intended to lock out what we had years ago for free.
((Back to regular points)
-R1 Battle AI . Needs to be efficient with using troops doing massive damage with little to no losses and planning Hammer & anvil tatics and reserves and cause routing and shock tatics etc.
-BRING BACK THE MUSIC QUALITY ! heck even bring a female Jeff Van Dyck to do the music making it even more dramatic. Or simpler yet, touch Jeff Van Dyck's shoulder for advice. Bribe 1 million for him I don't care he's valuable.
•We can always mention what Rome 1 did better.
And I'll say that my mouthful of advice is it. But by golly if we get a R1 remastered, revamped, revised. If we get R1 with everything it had make NO changes ((listen, what I'll say next isn't difficult to do. But in practice it is.)), "don't do anything than what was done before", don't change anything. Just keep it going as it R1, was.
End
Speeches are already in Rome 2 though
@@heyitsamy1771 its just not the same. I had to really zoom in and listen close for it. The OG game made it cinematic and epic, and you watched your men get pumped for the battle ahead.
Also a slightly larger map extending further east
What's female Jeff Van Dyck?
You're in luck
Это пизд.ц! До сих пор мурашки от этой заставки)
*Girls visiting Italy for School trip:* Omg I can’t wait to go to Venice!
*Boys visiting Italy on same trip:* 1:30
if u have headphones on try closeing your eyes and just imaging yourself on a battlefield with the roman legionaries against all odds
+robosoldier11 lol. if i was in a battlefield with this music then rip elephants
cool vasilis get at it son ill be back here good luck.
yeah like the opening battle at Gladiator. ROMA VICTOOOOOOOR
.....Anyone else here after the Remaster trailer?
FOR ROME!
this is my childhood in a nutshell, coming back to this as a 18 year old is so nostalgic
Nostalgia as an 18 year old 🤔 now you're really making me feel old hahaha.
were u playing this game from your mohers belly wtf?
@@stratos8 i only started playing it in 2010 cause my dad played it a lot
REMASTER BABEEEEEYYYY
Why is this music sooooo good holy shit
Been playing this game since I was 12 years old, I’m a grown man now 24 years of age and I still cry watching this. This is my entire childhood. And I have my father to thank for giving me a hell of a childhood and a hell of a game that I still play today. I love you dad. Thank you.🥹
I play this back in my childhood really boost my interest to learn history
Age of Empires, Stronghold, Civilization, Total War, and to some extent Empire Earth were the games that heightened by interest in history.
And the Crusader Kings 2 came with its DLCs, showing how fun alternate history can be and how the best kind of RPGs are the one where you can really play a role while the game provides the tool to build the narrative.
This is the best game ever made, not even the modern ones can get close to the immersion this had. It's impressive.
The newer ones don't feel as fun from a player perspective and don't feel as loved by the creators, rather soulless and more focused on stat balancing.
The amazing part is that History Channel used this masterpiece to show some of history in his program.
And Time Commanders but i think they had early access but was a great way to promote a mostly unknown UK studio.
1:56 This intro made me OBSESSED with War elephants and cavalry as a kid/teen lol. Plus the music and sound effects were just so perfectly timed 🙌🏽
Still the best soundtrack but with Med 1 & 2 very close behind.
dis badass elephant in the end
wow Gauls Britons and Carthage against Rome.epic battle
all of them
And pontus fighting the house of brutii
BlakeFerret it was the Parthians
BlakeFerret That was actually one of the game’s Historical Battles.
yeah all of Rome's greatest foes in one epic battle. this RTS got me hooked after C&C RA2 and C&C Generals
I remember playing this game for the first time back in 2005. Back than I lived in Germany and a friend of mine who came from America owned this game. RTW was really amazing.
1:30 my favorite part
I just noticed.
Thats the siege of Minas Tirith and Pelennor Field if you think about it. The barbarians/gauls are the Orcs. The roman cav charge are the Rohirrim saving the battle. The Carthaginians elephants the Mumakil. The battering ram shot is Grond. The elephants charging the gate are the Olog-Hai.
Nerd
Correct. They probably based it off that.
The intro for RTW 1 is way better than RTW 2. You really get excited by all the action.
+1 have to agree, Rome 2 is still lacklustre in many ways, it's like a bleached version of Rome 1. Do you think CA will remake the Med 2 intro if we get a Remaster ?
Co-worker in 2035: Fortnite was my childhood game what was yours?
Me: Shows this intro.
Co-worker gets jealous 😁
Rome 2's intro can't even compare to this
Zoomers won’t get how epic this was
The devs of this game are great, love that the intro is a roman version of Battle of the Pelennor Fields
I spent about 3000 thousand hours in this game, the most of all total wars
No idea how many hours i played with the disks but the Steam version of Rome 1, Alexander and the Remaster should be close to 3k i think.
Bear in mind this game released in the same year as Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 and it still stands today as a (yes dated) but landmark part of the strategy genre. The fact it's graphics are pretty decent for the time and yet also stretched to a game which can encompass 1000s of units per battle still impresses me to this day
Cav charge, elephants, destroyed gate, generaly a siege, Rome 1 release date 2004
Lotr: Return of the King, release date 2003
If true, i took me 17 years to realise this
Who else misses the ability to look around your cities?
Same
I miss this game. :(
I like that instrument that starts from 0:26 - sounds like turkish saz
Well it´s probably a lyra or sambuca, guess the persians (and later the turks) got those as the romans from the greek
When this game was released i had no computer to play but i still bought the cd and i started saving money to play this game on my own computer and meanwhile i brought cd with me wherever i go and i still have it. This game is everything about my childhood :)
The way they show the battle of Carrhae is great too
i love how this video quality is bad. such a masterpiece game, so sad that we rarely see nice games these times.
Well now we have the Remaster but still hoping CA can remember/relearn how to make entertaining Historical games.
Still have goosebumps
I can’t want to see the remaster intro
Gauls. I hate Gauls.
This intro was awesome in my eyes when I first saw this, also this part 1:31 was the first experience I’ve felt chills back then
Growing up my dad would play this game a lot and I would literally just sit right next to him and watch him play, and everytime this intro would come we never skipped it. Now I’m 25 and I got it for myself it’s so good.
After watching the remastered intro. I came back to this and remember why Rome was so great. The remaster absolutely failed in capturing the same Majesty in this instance.
Only intro from all video games that i've never skipped. Good nostalgia.
@@roteshere exactly seeing the remaster flub like this kinda gives off that lack of the same magic that made the original so compelling. Its a shame modern CA is in capable of doing what its predecessors did.
@@robosoldier11 I won't play the remastered version. It can only disappoint the great memories I have from back then.
The Best game intro in history
Best Total War game ever.
Without a doubt !
Me: 'Ahh, me and my friends have raided the fridge and there's nothing mum can do about it'
The bedroom door: 1:56
Best intro of any TW by far
Well SOMEONE watched Lord of the Rings Return of the King before making this trailer.
Yup lmao.
God I hope the remaster keeps this intro.
They didn't and the new one fucking sucks.
First time i played was 2007, a Demo version.
this is too epic
Still gets me going after all these years .
@@IceniTotalWar me too
Do you have the Remaster ?
@@henryshepard6754
2004 still a classic best games
Absolutely and so many current players got their start with that game.
The SICKEST way to start a game
Was there ever a intro that blew your mind more in 2005!?
Rome Total War was awesome
Decades past and no one came up with a better game than Rome Total War
The epicest intro ever in Total war!!!
Why is it that strategy games always have amazing intro movies?
Clickbait 🤔 🤣🤣 but definitely not this game.
CA... what the fuck happened man?
SEGA
Casual market happened, SEGA and modern gaming business.
Canaris3 its true, this game with the graphics of the Rome 2 will be better than the actual game
Gorbendo | Jodiendo con Humor Fuck RTW 2 graphics man .. i dont want my computer to clutter with useless shit like facial animations and other R2 shit ... Also Warscape sucks. So i will play free Europa Barbarorum 2 O!
Canaris3 I think thet this game is the empire 2, o no, sorry the empire was good ccomparing to this shit
How nostalgic.. I remember opening this game again 3 years ago and my ears dying because of a sound bug
I miss this
Omg so much memories
the first bit of music always gets me in the battling mood!
Gives me chills every time
Hands down one of the best intros in PC gaming history!
El mejor juego de la historia...(?)
The nostalgia bro
Nostalgia overload !!! 😮😮😮
My God, this game is gonna be 20 years old.
I just realised that the Siege of Rome in this is just a reskinned Siege of Minas Tirith, right down to a devastating charge from cavalry reinforcements being countered by elephants.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery 🙂
This and DOW1 trailers the best..
This definitely, is DOW1 = Dogs of War ?
@@IceniTotalWar Dawn of war
I always thought the city being sieged was Massalia, since it's the most likely to be reached by Carthage, Gauls and Britons during a game.
This game turns 19 this year, I'm 28 and I still love playing it Legend!
Watching this today, STILL gives me chills . I have seen this countless times, I NEVER skipped the Intro .
Still gives me chills . If aynone wants to showcase to anyone what TW has lost over time, show them this intro . And make em compare it to the intros of newer Titles .
Over a decade old but this game is spectacular, there is a remastered version of it this year 😏
Of all games to come across this has got to be up there with the best game intros!
The very sight of a seige, multiple battles an armoured war elephants alone makes it exciting to. Begin with!!
I haven't played this game in a while but i still remember how epic this was
Best intro for the best game.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I finally saw the opening. It was so beyond everything I could imagine at that time. How times have changed!
Dang this game is old, and this is literally one of the oldest videos I've seen on CZcams, but hey still love the game.
ONE OF THE BEST RTS I EVER PLAYED!
God, this music always gives me goosebumps..
1:32 Charging the one of the heaviest cavalry with woad raiders. Great move Britannia.
Amazing
Gods this is Perfection!
Even though i was a bit ill at the time, i got to the end once! LOL!
End of the Campaign ? Long campaign or actually painted the whole map.
@@IceniTotalWar all of it.