Good review, although it fails to mention one major point : the game is ridiculously easy. The AI is more than atrocious. I'm serious. I've been playing this game recently, and I don't see how you could possibly loose at it, although admitedly I am a strategy game enthusiast, and I realise the review was mainly aimed at romanophiles. Also : flaming pigs and hunting dogs as units. You should have mentioned them. And ptolemaic Egypt has really ridiculous units, not to mention all barbarian factions in general.
I would be very curious to know what the team at UNRV thinks of Europa Barbarorum (http://www.europabarbarorum.com/). It's a user-made mod for Rome Total War. I think you'd find the game far more enjoyable with it, and the presentation is quite professional. It doesn't make it any harder, but that's my own personal grudge, I suppose. I'm not connected to it by any means, for the record. If any of you intend to play Rome Total War, you should really give this modification a shot, if only to make the game stop being ridiculous.
