Centurion: Defender of Rome

Description

Starting as a young Roman legionnaire in 275BC, your job is to conquer the known world through force or diplomacy, fighting on land and sea.

Centurion: Defender of Rome is a turn-based strategy game. You start with one province, Rome, and one legion. To complete the game, you have to conquer all the provinces on the map.

One part of the game is micro-managing your provinces. You set up tax rates and make people happy by organizing games. In Rome, you can organize a chariot race, a gladiatorial combat or even a simulated naval battle; this starts an action mini-game where you control the chariot rider, gladiator or ship.

Another part of the game is military conquest. You can raise legions or strengthen them in any province you control (let's just hope there are enough men in the province, or your legion will be incomplete and weaker). There are three types of legions, each of them has a different strength. You can also move a legion to a neighbouring province.

When you enter a province you don't yet control, you can speak with the ruler there. With luck, you can convince him to give you the province for free; but this isn't very likely, and you'll often have to fight.

When your legion attacks a province, or defends one of your provinces from an invader, the game switches to an isometric view of the battlefield. You can give orders to your legion (assuming they are within the range of their commander's voice) and watch as they duke it out with the enemy forces. Eventually, one of the sides will be completely wiped out or panic and retreat.

Finally, you can buy warships and have naval battles with the enemy fleet. This is represented as an action mini-game, depicting a duel of the flagships; however, the outcome of the battle actually depends on the strength of your fleet.

Part of the Following Groups

• Cinemaware-style games
• Setting: Ancient Roman

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User Reviews

Become Caesar, conquer the known world.	Amiga	David Ledgard (63)
Centurion: Pretender to the Throne?	DOS	PCGamer77 (3027)
Excellent game.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4418)
A classic!	DOS	Raphael (1164)
Full of promise but never delivered	DOS	Tony Van (2692)
A rough gem	Genesis	Tony Maki (12)
Not very rewarding.	DOS	Mr Blea (2)
Defend the empire in this classic game of strategy and guile.	DOS	bb bb (29)
Another classic from the classic days of gaming	DOS	William Shawn McDonie (1153)

The Press Says

Consoles Plus	Genesis	Sep, 1991	88 out of 100	88
Amiga Action	Amiga	Jun, 1991	87 out of 100	87
CU Amiga	Amiga	Apr, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Zero	Amiga	Jun, 1991	83 out of 100	83
Interface	Amiga	1991	73 out of 100	73
Power Play	DOS	Aug, 1990	60 out of 100	60
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Jun, 1991	58 out of 100	58
Amiga Power	Amiga	Jun, 1991	57 out of 100	57
Power Play	Genesis	Aug, 1991	57 out of 100	57
The Games Machine (UK)	DOS	Aug, 1990	48 out of 100	48

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Trivia

Music

The music used in the naval battles was taken from the movie Ben Hur. It was in the scene where Ben Hur was a galley slave.

Information also contributed by William Shawn McDonie