When a game opens with a cinematic focusing on a little boy kissing and then releasing a dove to fly majestically over an idyllic countryside, you know not to expect much in the way of intense action. So you have to give Glory of the Roman Empire kudos for honesty. But you can't dish out too much praise when it comes to the game itself, as it is such a light take on the city-building genre that it practically disappears into its voluminous toga after a few hours of play. Haemimont Games takes such a casual approach to everything, from the ancient Roman setting to the quickie campaign scenarios, so that many players will find little here to latch onto and really enjoy.
When you get right down to it, this is really a budget-minded take on classics like Caesar III. Glory of the Roman Empire puts you in the toga and sandals of a Roman governor for hire who bops all over the empire dealing with various municipal problems. Both competitive modes of play--a campaign and a challenge option where you're given random objectives to deal with in random cities (there is also a free-building sandbox mode, but no multiplayer beyond the ability to post challenge scores online at a wall of fame)--are fast-moving. No sooner do you deal with the plague at Syracusae than your expertise is needed to battle wildfires in Florentia, or to add to the stature of Londinium, or to repel barbarians from Colonia Claudia.
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Objectives in each burg are always straightforward. As with other city-building games, you're tasked with building a certain number of homes, growing town population, making sure everybody has a job, establishing trade routes, and so forth. Unlike most other city-building games, though, objectives are typically realized quite quickly. Design has been streamlined to the point where there is no micromanagement, which is good, but there are also fewer choices to be made, which is bad. There are no more than a couple of dozen structures, and scenarios typically center on just a few of these. Resources are gathered and distributed pretty much automatically. Just throw up some pig farms, clay pits, mines, and wheat fields, along with businesses like butchers and bakeries that process raw materials into usable goods like sausages and bread, and you're good to go.
In short, it's way too easy to make with the bread and circuses here. The feel of most scenarios is akin to open-ended sandbox play, where you're free to do pretty much whatever you want whenever you want to meet goals. This is largely due to the lack of a monetary economy. Gold is present in the game, but it is used almost solely for the purchase of slaves (and you do have to keep their numbers up, or their workload becomes so arduous that they pull a Spartacus and revolt). Buildings are constructed and maintained only with raw materials, which are generally found in abundance locally or via easily accessible trade routes with other towns.
Towns are also easy to plan because you don't have to worry about negative effects. Unlike a lot of other city builders, here you can place a row of houses right behind a pig farm and a butcher's shop and not have the citizens offer up a single peep of complaint. So you can essentially proceed to build towns however you like, with little regard for the barely there bottom line, and just plop down buildings wherever their circles of effect benefit the surrounding structures. The only exception is provided by a few scenarios in northern Europe, as there you need to work fast in order to build watchtowers and train soldiers in barracks before burn-and-pillage barbarians come storming over the hills.
This lack of challenge makes scenarios fly by and gives Glory of the Roman Empire a pick-up-and-play atmosphere not found in other city-building games. Casual players or those on tight schedules will find this a plus, as you can often knock off a couple of scenarios in a half hour or less. There is something to be said for backing away from the micromanagement that has turned many city-building games into ad hoc degrees in urban planning.
But, still, Haemimont goes too far with this approach. The "city builder for everybody" philosophy has seeped into every aspect of the game, so that the whole thing feels generic. Even the Roman angle has been watered down. Citizens are given Roman names, buildings feature such Roman stereotypes as villas, vineyards, and baths, and you can erect monuments like arches of triumph, Colosseums, and temples to Bacchus and Neptune. But these elements seem like window dressing. While scenarios take place in towns with Roman names on a map of the Roman Empire, the towns themselves have nothing in common with their historical namesakes. And the scenarios are similarly divorced from history, with no references to actual events or dates or known personages. It's easy to forget about the Roman theme after a few hours of play, unless you turn the interface over to Latin (which actually is a pretty cool innovation) and play the game in the language of Virgil.
The look and sound of the game add to this fuzzy feel. Most buildings appear to be somewhat classically inspired, but lack a real Roman identity. It's also hard to tell them apart from a distance. Haemimont seems to have relied on similar art motifs for different structures, so at a glance it can be tough to tell a casa from a butcher's shop, or a tavern from a tailor shop. Sound is barely there. The orchestral soundtrack is so bland that you barely notice it, and your citizens are veritable mutes. Even when you click directly on them, you get little more than muffled grunts.
A muffled grunt is actually a fitting critical response for Glory of the Roman Empire. You can't be too harsh on Haemimont, as the developer clearly aimed low here, but this just isn't a game that's going to hold the interest of anyone with the slightest modicum of city-building experience.
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