Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome (Windows)

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Description

Age of Empires: Rise of Rome is an expansion for Age of Empires. Along several bug fixes, new maps, and four new campaigns about the rise and fall of Rome, it includes four new civilizations (Carthage, Macedonia, Palmyra, and Roman) with a new building design, five new units (slingers, armored elephants, camel riders, fire galleys, and scythe chariots), and four new technologies (logistics, martyrdom, medicine, and tower shield).

Gameplay is also tweaked, with the ability to queue production of units of the same type, the ability to use the "home" key to circle through events, the possibility to change the population limit, and a new map size "gigantic" was added.

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Alternate Titles

• "帝国时代：罗马复兴" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "世紀帝國之羅馬霸主 (資料片)" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
• "RoR" -- Common abbreviation
• "Age of Empires: Der Aufstieg Roms" -- German title

Part of the Following Groups

• Age of Empires series
• Games with randomly generated environments
• Setting: Ancient Roman

User Reviews

More missions, more units, more fun.

Sir Gofermajster (481)

The Press Says

GameGenie	1998		100
Gamezilla	Jan 28, 1999	98 out of 100	98
FileFactory Games / Gameworld Network	May 04, 2002	93 out of 100	93
GameStar (Germany)	Nov, 1998	88 out of 100	88
Strategy Gaming Online	Nov 10, 1998	8.5 out of 10	85
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 1998	80 out of 100	80
Attack Games	Feb, 1999	8 out of 10	80
Jeuxvideo.com	Nov 26, 1998	15 out of 20	75
GameSpot	Nov 10, 1998	7.4 out of 10	74
GamePro (US)	Jan 01, 2000	3.5 out of 5	70

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Trivia

Bird hunting

It's possible to task a villager to hunt birds. However, when the bird is hit, it explodes.

Cut cheat

Ensemble Studios devoted whole brainstorming sessions as to what cheats should be allowed into the game. One of them was a cannibalism cheat that was cut out of the game at the last minute.

Information also contributed by Sir Gofermajster

Related Web Sites

• Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome -- The official homepage.