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
• Gameplay Feature: Fog of War
• Games with randomly generated environments
• Setting: Ancient Roman
• Setting: City - Rome

User Reviews

More missions, more units, more fun.

Sir Gofermajster (478)

Critic Reviews

GameGenie	1998		100
PC Action	Oct 21, 1998	85 out of 100	85
Power Play	Nov, 1998	82 out of 100	82
Computer Games Magazine	Jan, 1999		80
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 1998	80 out of 100	80
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Jan, 1999		80
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Oct 22, 1998		80
Imperium Gier	Oct 10, 2001	7.6 out of 10	76
JeuxVideoPC.com	Nov 11, 2001	15 out of 20	75
GameSpot	Nov 10, 1998	7.4 out of 10	74

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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 (official website)