And this time you are given a persistent character to play as, and you can chose a character from one of the five families represented from Roman history. The campaign has also been devised to play as you would expect from a strategy title. So how does Grand Ages: Rome, improve on Imperium Romanum? Well first off the game is a lot more stable then the original game, with improved menus, cleaner interface and better camera controls.
There are also a number of other bonuses for you to earn which will improve your city’s ability to grow and these are usually achieved by making sure your citizen’s needs are meet to a predetermined level. Buildings all require resources to function properly making each plot placement important, in order for it to work, even more so in this game as buildings placed next to certain others will often earn you a bonus and make your population easier to please. On the whole the game play is very similar to the original game. Shame that you rarely get to test it out once again!
Although just as in the last game this is hardly ever required of you, and on some maps in the game there aren’t even any barbarian camps to pose a threat to your city! This for me is quite puzzling as when I interviewed the developers Haemimont Games they told me the combat system had been completely rebuilt. Of course there are times you will have to defend your Roman city from Barbarian attacks utilising the might of the Roman war machine. The premise of Grand Ages: Rome is simple to build a prosperous city and make sure the needs and wants of it population are met in order for it to grow. So much so that I had to actually replay Imperium Romanum again to spot the few differences between the titles, which sadly are few and far between? Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.Grand Ages: Rome is the sequel to last years Imperium Romanum, but does this city building strategy game build on the foundation laid by its predecessor? Well not really instead it feels very much like a tweaked version of the original game. Lead your people and advance through the decades by utilising construction, research, expansion and conquest in an area extending from Scandinavia and North Africa to Portugal, the Caucasus and the Middle East. Grand Ages: Medieval is a real-time strategy game from Gaming Minds. Found new cities, progress your nation with inventive technology and protect your trade routes against barbarian attacks until you are powerful enough to begin your conquest over Europe and forge a bold new empire. Explore a vast world, gather resources, encounter other societies and use your trading expertise to expand and make your fortune. As the head of one of these small settlements, it falls upon you to lead your people towards greatness. New frontiers are explored, settlements founded and vast trading routes established. At the beginning of the High Middle Ages development in Europe has seen an unprecedented level of progress and a rapidly growing population spreads across the length and breadth of the continent.
"Grand Ages: Medieval" is an entry in Kalypso's "Grand Ages" series of finely-crafted strategy games of different genres developed by different studios.
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