Year of construction: 2009
Genre: Strategy (Manage/Busin./Real-time)/3D
developer: Haemimont Games
Publishing house: Kalypso Media / Akella
Platform: PC
System requirements for maximum rendering quality recommended by the gameGPU website:
The minimum
Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MBRAM Radeon HD 4650 or GeForce GT 9500
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 5 GB free space
Effective
Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MBRAM Radeon HD 2900 Pro or GS GeForce 8800
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 5 GB free space
Optimal
Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.91 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MBRAM Radeon HD 4850 or GeForce GTS 250
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 5 GB free space
Official description of the game
Raise huge armies and launch military campaigns to expand your Empire and conquer all known lands! Participate in large-scale urban development projects and create majestic cities, the glory of which will endure for centuries! Intuitive controls will allow you to easily control troops in combat missions and keep track of the slightest economic nuances of your thriving civilization.
After decades of exile, your family name was completely forgotten in Rome. However, when the dictator Sulla resigned, this changed everything. Rome stood before the beginning of a new era. As Caesar and Pompey fight for control of the Republic, you must choose the right side. The scenery is set. It’s time for you to take the stage to play your part – to achieve power and influence in one of the greatest civilizations in history.
Build an Empire worth fighting for!
Extras. information:
* Expanded combat system – detailed RTS battles featuring 18 types of military units.
* Rich multiplayer – online multiplayer modes for competition or cooperative play.
* Epic Campaigns – non-linear story-driven narratives spanning 40 different missions.
* Full-fledged economy – use resource flows to create a prosperous economic system.
Review: Playability
This ambitious project somehow passed us by. And only recently having appeared in the media, we involuntarily became interested in him. First of all, we were interested in the game graphics. and a description of the gameplay – where the ambition of the developers has skyrocketed tenfold relative to the game Rome: Total War.
Now let’s move on to our immediate opinion regarding this game. First of all, we want to really emphasize. that the developers’ project turned out to be really large-scale: before you begin combat operations, you will have to sweat a little and build an entire economic system with all the bells and whistles of the civilization of that time. This, as they say, is the good side of the coin will appeal only to avid economic strategists, while RTS fans will have to smoke on the sidelines.
Overall, the scale of the game is impressive, but the developers are still very, very far from conquering the heights of recreating a real living world.
Review: Game Graphics
The game graphics are quite nice and allow you to see the Great Roman Empire with your own eyes. Lots of game objects, dynamic changes of day and weather, beautiful special effects – everything is done at the proper level.
But this beauty is uneclipsed only when viewing the game map from above. When you get closer, you can see a slight clumsiness of the game models, and especially the game characters.
But since the game is not aimed at the hardcore market, but at fans of economic strategies, it has a very, very high graphical level for this genre.
Review: Resource-intensive game
To fully enjoy the gameplay of this product, you will need a dual-core Core 2 Duo 2,4 GHz processor and 2 gigabytes of RAM..
As always, we carried out testing in the most resource-intensive place in the game. When testing on Radeon cards, we encountered a problem – anti-aliasing in the game menu cannot be enabled when it is activated simultaneously with post-processing. It is quite possible that this is a driver glitch, or maybe the game itself…
Therefore, we conducted general testing without antialiasing enabled and separate testing with antialiasing enabled on GeForce cards.
Testing at maximum quality settings at 1920×1080 resolution without anti-aliasing activated
Testing at maximum quality settings at 1920×1080 resolution with anti-aliasing activated
Conclusion: The game is designed for fans of economic strategies. Although it has an RTS element, we do not recommend it to fans of this genre.
