Works on: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11
Overview
The Rise of Rome includes a few changes, including the new Roman architectural design shared by all four new civilizations.
Four new research technologies have been added, most providing very good bonuses and making a large change in the gameplay strategy. There are also additional new features and new units for the game.
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.
New features
The Rise of Rome features a new Roman architectural design, shared by all four new civilizations (the Romans, Palmyrans, Macedonians and Carthaginians). Four new researchable technologies have been added. 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.
Gameplay changes include adding larger maps and tweaking the interface.
Civilizations
Carthaginians - bonuses in nautical and war elephant units
Macedonia - bonuses in siege units and missile resistance
Palmyrans - bonuses in economy and trade
Romans - bonuses in infantry and construction
Technologies
Logistics - reduces the population count by half for all units created at the barracks
Martyrdom - sacrifice priests to instantly convert units
Medicine - increase priest healing rate
Tower Shield - decrease damage received from missiles
Units
Armored Elephant - an upgrade of the War Elephant with trample damage effect.
Camel Rider - a new unit which is effective against cavalry.
Scythe Chariot - an upgrade of the Chariot which damages adjacent units.
Fire Galley - a new ship unit which applies fire to enemy units.
Slinger - a new infantry unit which is effective against archers.
Campaigns
Main article: Campaign
Four new single-player campaigns are added focusing on the history of the city of Rome.
Rise of Rome (Romans)
Ave Caesar (Romans)
Pax Romana (Romans)
Enemies of Rome (Carthaginians, Macedonians, Romans, Palmyrans)
Game details
Genre: Real-time strategy
Works on: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11
Release date: October 31, 1998
Game features: Single-player
Languages: English (Audio & Text)
Size: 157 MB
Developers: Ensemble Studios
Publishers: Microsoft Games
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP;
CPU Pentium 90 MHz;
32 MB random access memory;
3D-graphics card 2 MB memory;
290 MB free space on hard disk drive.
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