Reviewers Liked
- Great use of characters to simulate back-stabbing politics
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Can become a bit of a grind after a while
Imperator: Rome
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7.6
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By GameSpot
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The latest grand strategy game from the genre's current leading light, Paradox Interactive, puts you at the helm of one of the great powers of the late 4th century B.C. and asks you to conquer the world from western Europe to southern Asia. At the same...
By New Game Network
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Imperator: Rome has some rough edges and it's not quite up to par with the excellent games Paradox usually churns out, but at the same time, it is still a challenging and rewarding experience that's bound to keep you engaged for long...
By PCWorld New Zealand
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All this to say: It has potential. Imperator: Rome attempts to wrangle Paradox's entire legacy into a single all-encompassing game. It hasn't got there, not yet, but I know it can get there—and probably will, given Paradox's track record. It's just a...
By Destructoid
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A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.How we score: The Destructoid reviews...
By Gaming Nexus
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Let's just get this out of the way up front: Imperator:Rome is a good game, and you should go out and buy it. This will likely be the definitive game covering the era of the early Roman empire for some time to come.That being said, what exactly is good...
By PC Gamer
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Huge, inventive and the reason I'm sleep deprived. It's...
By pcgamesn.com
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As Imperator grows in scale from its Clausewitz cousins, so too it grows in depth and ultimately in unwieldiness. But there's a grand strategy with aeons of play in it for...
By TheStraitsTimes
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The experience of playing a grand strategy game from Swedish developer Paradox Interactive for the first time is a distinctive one.You pick a country, civilisation or state of some kind and dive straight into a huge real-time world map where, at...
By PCWorld
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I want an empire, and I want my crazed kids to fiddle as hundreds of years of history burn to the ground. That’s the promise of Imperator: Rome, a sprawling epic for an epic era. It’s no surprise Paradox hasn’t captured all that intricacy from the start, but like Rome itself, there’s a lot more construction ahead.
By kotaku.com
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I've been wondering for years what a Paradox grand strategy game would look like if it was designed for regular humans, and in Imperator: Rome I have my answer.As long-time readers may know, I'm a big fan of Paradox's grand strategy games, Crusader...
By eurogamer.net
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What is it about the Roman empire that makes it so enduringly fascinating, when other historical empires eclipse it in so many ways? There have been bigger empires (British), older empires (Persian), and more ferocious empires (Mongol). Yet few people...
By pcmrace.com
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Mucho de lo que necesitamos saber sobre Imperator: Rome lo vamos a encontrar en su título. Roma, sin dudas, es el eje central del nuevo juego de Gran Estrategia de Paradox. Y la Ciudad Eterna cumple un rol central en la campaña que se nos propone en...
By Gamezoom.net
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Klassischer kann Paraodx Interactive ein Spiel eigentlich nicht releasen. Es ist holprig, es hat Macken und es fehlen unendlich viele Features, die wir bereits aus Crusader Kings, Europa Univeraslis und all den anderen Spielen schon kennen. Keine Frage,...
By actugaming.net
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Très complet et offrant pas mal de challenge à son lancement, Imperator Rome sera probablement le titre sur lequel je passerai le plus de temps en cette année 2019. Si le soft reçoit le même traitement qu'Europa Universalis IV ou Crusader Kings II, il...
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