Grand Ages: ROME

Haemimont Games · Mar 17, 2009

Teen

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Raise massive armies, embark on epic campaigns to expand the Empire, and take control of the known world! Engage in grand-scale city building and create magnificent cities with creativity and control like never before. Intuitive controls make it easy to launch bone-crushing combat missions and manage every aspect of your thriving civilization.
After decades in exile, your family name has been all but forgotten in Rome. But, the departure of the tyrant Sulla has changed everything, and Rome stands on the brink of a new era. Sides must be chosen as Caesar and Pompey battle for control of the Republic. The stage is set for you to gain power and influence over one of the greatest civilizations in history.

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Critic 7.0 (6 critics) · Gamer 7.4

Critic reviews

GameSpot
Brett Todd · Apr 06, 2009
5.5
After spending a few dozen hours with Grand Ages: Rome, it's hard to come up with many reasons why this game needs to exist. It is very similar to a game released just a year ago, and it adds very little to an overdone genre. Chances are good that fans of this sort of game already have sitting on their hard drives at least a couple of perfectly good ways to build Rome in a day.
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Game Zone
jkdmedia · Mar 26, 2009
6.0
Grand Ages: Rome is a decent game that doesn't try very hard to break out of the city-building mold. Instead it fits comfortably in the age old staples of the genre. The only good thing about this is the developers laid a good foundation for them to work with on the inevitable sequel, which will hopefully come up with something new and really make this game break out.
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IGN
Steve Butts · Mar 20, 2009
6.8
Grand Ages: Rome is an enjoyable game, but if you've played any of the other city-builders that have come along in the last ten years, you'll quickly grow bored of this one. The pieces are all in place in terms of city structures and jobs, but keeping people satisfied is relatively easy and is repeated in each and every mission to the point of becoming tedious. More variety and more challenge would definitely help to improve the game's appeal, as would a more lively visual style.
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Cheatcc
NATHAN MEUNIER · Mar 17, 2009
8.2
War-minded players will find some aspects of the battle implementation in Grand Ages: Rome to be severely lacking. In contrast, achieving economic balance and social bliss through careful layout and design of your empire is extremely rewarding. It's enough to mostly make up for the game's other shortcomings. Though Rome wasn't built in a day, you'll certainly find yourself building for days.
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Game Watcher
Simon Priest · Mar 17, 2009
8.0
Grand Ages: Rome offers a lot of improvements from team Haemimont as the cities are much more fun to put together and feel natural with plebs, equites and other walks of life going about their days. While the military side has received a polish and is much easier to handle now, it still lacks a certain depth that would have otherwise complimented the excellent city building of Grand Ages.
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GameStar.de
Christian Schmidt · Feb 27, 2009
7.6
Es gibt sie also doch, die perfekte Stadt, und ich habe sie gebaut. Mehrmals! Wer die Siedlung in Grand Ages: Rome richtig austariert, der erhält ein völlig stabiles System, das man ohne Überraschung die Nacht lang sich selbst überlassen kann. Das mag unspannend klingen; ich finde es aber überaus befriedigend, meine Planungsarbeit so konsequent belohnt zu sehen. Überhaupt ist Grand Ages: Rome ein Spiel voller Belohnungen: Ob Charaktersystem, Nebenziele, Forum, immer wieder gibt’s motivierende Fortschritte.
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