This game is rated ESRB: Teen for Violence.
Rome: Total War – Barbarian Invasion is a turn-based strategy expansion developed by The Creative Assembly, released in 2005 for PC and later iOS. Set 349 years after the events of the original Rome: Total War, the expansion covers the period from 363 AD to 476 AD, though players may continue past that endpoint. It focuses on the mass migrations of Germanic and steppe peoples, with the Huns among the most prominent forces reshaping the known world. Alongside the military and political simulation, the expansion models the religious conflicts of the late Roman era, representing the struggle for dominance among Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Paganism. As in the base game, players manage both large-scale campaign decisions on a turn-based map and direct tactical command of armies in real-time battles, now within the context of an empire in decline and transformation.
Rome has become an empire, grown and split into the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, ruled from Rome and Constantinople. The various regions of the Empire represent the factions of the original game, all of which have been absorbed into the Empire. The ‘Barbarians’ in the title take the form of the Huns, the Goths, the Vandals, the Franks, the Burgundians and the Lombards and it is their respective unification and resulting strength that allows them to invade the Empire itself, acting as the catalyst for the action of the campaign.
