my favorite, but needs work

I have been a fan of the total war serries from the begining. I dont know how many hours I have logged in on each of them, from Shogun to Medieval, to Rome, to Medieval 2 two empire to Napoleon, I have played them all save for Shogun 2,

For me, the best of the best is ROME, Total war.
It just gets everything right.

this game is great BUT

The port needs work.
Frame rate is pour, even on monster machines like my Mac Pro. The game stutters every once in a while and often in battles, you have to pause the game to give orders. On my Mac Book pro, (much weaker machine) I have a boot camped windows version of Rome running, much smoother and without any issue. To me, it feels like RTW after the first patch.
This game needs to be better optimised for the mac.

For other RTW players, the graphics are very similar, there is a little too much color in the dress, especially the reds are very over pronounced. and many of the battle maps are over bright and a little lacking compared to the windows version. this is nitpicking, I know, but I felt it should be noted. (are you reading feral)

The game apears to have certain differances from the windows version, there apear to be some new models used in the citys as well as different battle AI. This could be just bad memory on my side tho.

All in all, a great game but needs to optimised better for the mac to get the 5th star.

Paj the Man about Rome: Total War - Gold Edition, v1.2.1