its easyto play and their is no blood. you see the battles from a birdseye view and you can controol the whole army. it teaches kids to controll a whole army and it teaches good decision making. Also, you can controll towns so you have to learn how to run the town and its a fun game.

Rome: Total War is one of my favorite games of all time. Whether it be raiding the barbarian Gauls, battling huge war elephants in Carthage, or marching through the gates of Rome itself. A great game. There really are not any issues except the violence, which is really mild.

One of the greatest games ever made, includes high educational value.

One reason that I gave it a 10 and up is because of the difficulty in this game. I'm 13 so I'm fine with the strategical/tactical stand points of the game, and gotten to the point of being very good at it too, but the difficulty of commanding an army in a battle can be difficult for little kiddies, (there is a difficulty setting though). But you will get good at it after a while. Another factor is the Imperial Campaign. This can be punishingly hard for newbies, because if you sit there and not do anything at all and not take any actions, (like raise taxes, or conquer cities) you will start to lose money, and when you lose money, you cant sustain your army, and so the Gauls, Greeks and Carthaginians will eat you up like a Turkey Sandwich. Also, one major violence issue is not the violence itself, but what it leaves over. The is no despawning mechanism for the corpses, so be prepared to see HUNDREDS of dead bodies to litter the battlefield. This was only made to make the game more realistic, but this might not be suitable for the little kiddies.