Rome: Total War Gold Edition, which combined the fully patched versions of the original game and its first expansion into one DVD (instead of the original game's three CD-ROMs), was released on 14 February 2006. The first expansion pack, Barbarian Invasion, was released on 27 September 2005. This was the first game to encompass what would become one of the most fundamental additions to the Total War series, free map movement as opposed to earlier versions where all movement was province-based.
Released in 2004, Rome: Total War is set in the Roman Republic.
