Expeditions: Rome

Like its predecessors, Expeditions: Rome is a historical fiction tactical turn-based RPG. After playing Expeditions: Viking, this game impressed me. I liked Viking but Rome clearly shows the growth in the studio's capabilities since then. This game is better in many ways, the combat and encounter design feel tighter, the voice acting and writing are better, and of course the graphics are better. The combat is very satisfying and is the main reason I like this franchise. I also really like the core design of the four main classes. They each feel different and interesting. The army management is better than I've seen in most RPGs that have a similar mechanic, but still very simple. I do have a few complaints about the game. It is more buggy than Expeditions: Viking, which was nearly bug-free. On the strategy map, resources would appear ready to collect when they weren't, and sometimes my legions would just randomly stop the mission I gave them and return to base for no reason. A quest that rewarded me a new praetorian set him at level 2 when all my other characters were past level 10, so he was mostly useless. The randomness of skills on weapons is annoying, just let me pick! I can either savescum getting the random weapon skills I actually want when crafting or upgrading a weapon, or I can grind random encounters for dozens of hours to get resources to keep crafting weapons until I get the right one. Not a good system, just let me pick. I thought the story, while mostly good, had some issues. Act 1 was enjoyable, Act 2 had me laughing and cheering and really engaged, but in Act 3 I felt completely railroaded and wanted choices not offered to me by the game. Also Act 3 really lacked any NPCs that felt like valuable allies or gave me interesting choices like in the previous acts. I like that Act 4 led to so many different possible endings in the game but it was unclear how to achieve some of them except through repeated trial and error. My biggest complaint about the game however is that the Veles class is grossly overpowered by about level 10 (roughly halfway through the game). A single Veles with Reaper, Cheap Shot, Sneak Attack, Clear Path, and Shiv can clear most entire encounters single-handedly on the first turn. It was really silly watching one character dash over 40 tiles and kill 20 different enemies in one turn. The combat in this game is a lot of fun, it's a shame to see it ruined by such an overpowered build. Honestly this problem significantly lowers my opinion of the game. That said, most of these problems (aside from the last one I mentioned) are minor in my opinion. The game is enjoyable, the combat is tons of fun, and the story is mostly good. The companions are especially well-written and interesting. If you like turn-based tactical combat that gives you interesting options and makes you think, you'll enjoy this game. It's not the best game out there due to the problems I mentioned above, but it's pretty good and worth playing. I didn't bother getting the DLC, as all it does is add a fifth class and a few encounters. The game already has 100 hours of content, so I didn't feel like I was missing anything.

Story 9 out of 10, interesting companion quests gave the support characters a lot more weight. (much better job than Assassin's greed) The game was quite bland at the beginning (like 6 out of 10 at the beginning) but the story does grow on you!! In the end it's actually quite epic. Voice acting 9 out of 10, political & philosophical discussions are very well scripted. Combat I'll give it 5 out of 10. The army fights & strategems are pretty much irrelevant. Overall a solid 8~9 out of 10.

Pretty good cRPG. Its not perfect but its got a lot of charm. Fantastic deal on sale. They even have some different plot points if you decided to be a woman which is cool.

The Expeditions series of games are great and Rome is no exception to this. I found the NPC's in Rome much improved from Vikings, and the story, while very, very linear, was well written. The new legion battle system was an interesting thought but poorly executed. It is clunky and adds little enjoyment to the game. In fact I found myself trying to skip the battles partway through the game. Another issue with Rome compared to the others was the reduced need to wander the map which made exploring less enjoyable. Overall, I rank the Expeditions titles as Conquistador as the best, followed by Vikings, and lastly Rome. It's still worth playing but unlike the other two, I have little desire to play it again.

very good very nice

Despite all the negative that can be viewed or felt on the game, i'll give this game a positive opinion, because from my perspective and all of these are subjective opinions, this game have a lot of expectation from these aspects: 1. Gameplay: The gameplay is rather simple but have more complexity from the way it looks. In praetorian combat, the gameplay have all it's element of turn-based strategy and rpg such as considering tactical, class, weapon, armor, and items to use but also some environment element in combat that can determined win/lose of the combat. But too bad the army combat is rather lacking as it just a simple choosing which card to use in order to win the combat. That much i think is really ruined some experience, but i get that we can't expect too much from a game to have it all. So i give the gameplay score 7/10. 2. Story: I never knew much of the Roman timeline history, but to what's it worth, don't expect any historical accuracy from this game as i think this game have made a clear indicator of it's historical accuracy. But other than that, the story is more than decent from my opinion. One thing for sure, there are no element of modern propaganda or ideology (at least not forced). The story is independent only for the game at those timeline. But to my surprise, i find it interesting that every major action in the gameplay can cause a different line on the story. Most games doesn't have that element anymore in these genre kind of a game and that alone i give the story score 9/10. 3. Immersion: For immersions, every aspect of this are just pure subjective. For me, the game is not so empty and silent. You can explore every corner of the game that can be explored (surely) whether in world map, the town, or some minor place. I think i haven't explored everything yet, as i saw from the community, there're still many things i didn't know. You can't interact with everything and everyone in this game, although i wish that this game have more interactable. But i guess that is too much to ask from these kind of game. You can't sell any equipment but you can make equipment from getting materials at traders for limited quantity or break any that you don't want to get materials you need for the equipment you want. This aspect is really a shame for me as it really ruins the immersion of rpg game, but at least there are some degree quality of the equipment you made. The survival is just a simple mechanics of food, water, morale and events that happened in the gameplay... other than that there is nothing worth mentioning, i think. There're no infinite scaling and continuous gameplay feature but there are some feature that the DLC provide to the gameplay unrelated to the story, and from my point of view, the DLC is rather worth it but not an essential addition to the immersions. The character class is not many but enough for the gameplay, the skill choice is there but much of it are not really that impressive although there are some that can bring much to the gameplay from my point of view. I played the game to the end and still didn't reach the level limit, so i don't know if there is a level limit. So from these aspect, i give the immersion 6/10. I really enjoyed the kind of game that have party-based rpg, open world, story and immersive gameplay. And the game Expedition: Rome have some element of surprise to it. So i recommend you to play this game but only when it's on discount.

The game is reminds me of BG3 but with some diff game play style such as random events, controlling your own army and solid combat system. I think most of the hate is undeserving. Playing as a woman might not be historical (im not a expert) but the devs put a lot of heart into the dialogue and I can tell you this is one of the few games to make me laugh. A plus side is that it takes place during the roman time and even with 30 hours I am still not done with game.