

To celebrate its release, several tournaments were held at Age of Empires Heaven, inviting players from around the world to test their skills in this new game. Review website GameWorldNetwork gave the game a score of 93%, and commented that it seemed to be a whole new game. The most praised features were The Rise of Rome's unit queue feature, and the improved all around gameplay and balance. The demo version also includes the First Punic War ( Carthaginians) campaign, which was later included in the Definitive Edition.Īlthough the expansion was criticized due to the minimal number of new features introduced, was well accepted on the whole. Enemies of Rome ( Carthaginians, Macedonians, Romans, Palmyrans).Slinger - a new infantry unit which is effective against archers.įour new single-player campaigns are added focusing on the history of the city of Rome.Fire Galley - a new ship unit which applies fire to enemy units.
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Additional new features include five new units, the ability to double click a single unit and select others of the same unit-type, and unit-build queuing. Four new researchable technologies have been added.

The Rise of Rome features a new Roman architectural design, shared by all four new civilizations (the Romans, Palmyrans, Macedonians and Carthaginians). Some other changes include larger maps and new ways to play such as adding unit queuing, using the period key to cycle through idle villagers, balancing damage done by Catapults, and increasing the population limit. There are also additional new features and new units for the game. The Rise of Rome includes a few changes, including the new Roman architectural design shared by all four new civilizations.įour new research technologies have been added, most providing very good bonuses and making a large change in the gameplay strategy. Age of Empires The Rise of Rome Official Trailer (1998, Ensemble Microsoft)
