Expeditions: Rome (2022)
Expeditions: Rome is a 2022 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Logic Artists and THQ Nordic.
Rome sends you east to avenge a murdered father and ends up handing you a legion. Expeditions: Rome is a turn-based tactical RPG of conquest and politics, where you command a party of Praetorians in close fights and steer whole campaigns from the war map. Choices carry weight: sack a city or spare it, back one senator over another, and let the consequences ripple back to the Republic. The tone is grounded and grown-up, closer to the grime of real legionary warfare than sword-and-sandal fantasy. Ambition, loyalty and blood, managed one hard decision at a time.
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What is Expeditions: Rome about?
Rome sends you east to avenge a murdered father and ends up handing you a legion. Expeditions: Rome is a turn-based tactical RPG of conquest and politics, where you command a party of Praetorians in close fights and steer whole campaigns from the war map. Choices carry weight: sack a city or spare it, back one senator over another, and let the consequences ripple back to the Republic. The tone is grounded and grown-up, closer to the grime of real legionary warfare than sword-and-sandal fantasy. Ambition, loyalty and blood, managed one hard decision at a time.
When was Expeditions: Rome released?
Expeditions: Rome was released on 20 January 2022.
Who made Expeditions: Rome?
Expeditions: Rome was made by Logic Artists and THQ Nordic.
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A few thoughts on Expeditions: Rome
Ancient warfare fans have a full slate. Spartacus: House of Ashur brings the blood and Roman scheming to the screen, Kingdom turns army-building and battlefield tactics into an epic on the page, and 300 distills the clash of shields to pure iconography. On television, HBO's Rome remains the definitive dramatization of the Republic tipping into empire.
Legions, politics and the price of power in the ancient world
Expeditions: Rome puts you in command of a legion sent east to avenge a murdered father, and lets you sack a city or spare it. Spartacus: House of Ashur and Gladiator show Rome's arenas and armies from below and above, the HBO series Rome tracks the same Republic collapsing into empire, and Kingdom follows a lowborn soldier's rise through an equally bloody warring-states China. Ambition always has a bill.
Historical action RPGs where politics is as deadly as combat
Expeditions: Rome asks you to back one senator over another and live with the fallout on the war map as much as the battlefield. The Assassin's Creed series runs the same wager across history: Ezio's vendetta against Renaissance Italy's ruling families in II and Brotherhood, Edward Kenway's turn from pirate to conspirator in Black Flag, and the Revolutionary War schemes of Assassin's Creed III all treat politics as a weapon.
Ambition stories that curdle into ruin
Expeditions: Rome tracks how one hard call after another turns a grieving soldier into a man who commands legions and senators. GoodFellas and The Wolf of Wall Street watch the same climb through crime and finance, Oppenheimer weighs what a brilliant, ambitious mind owes for the power it built, and Mad Men's Don Draper claws up Madison Avenue on charm and half-truths.