Rome Total War: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Rome Total War collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2004 and finished No. 9; the season went to Half-Life 2 with 26. Spike Video Game Awards named Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas its Game of the Year.

Rome: Total War is a strategy video game developed by The Creative Assembly and originally published by Activision; its publishing rights have since passed to Sega. The game was released for Microsoft Windows in 2004.

Description via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rome Total War finished #9 in the 2004 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

1Total awards
1Media outlets
0Readers' choice
1Countries

Also in the 2004 season: Half-Life 2 (26), Halo 2 (13), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (9), Doom 3 (3), Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2), Call of Duty (1), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (1), The Sims 2 (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Rome Total War win?

Rome Total War won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2004 season — 1.5% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Rome Total War win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 9 in 2004, behind Half-Life 2, which collected 26 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released22 September 2004
DeveloperCreative Assembly, Feral Interactive
PublisherActivision, Sega, Feral Interactive

real-time strategy
turn-based strategy video game
real-time tactics
historical video game
Microsoft Windows
macOS
Android (operating system)
IOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
US/UK	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Thunderbolt	US/UK	2004

← Full 2004 results

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.