Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
117,011
edits
Centurion: Defender of Rome: Difference between revisions
trope->work, tropelist
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (removed Category:Centurion Defender of Rome; added Category:Centurion: Defender of Rome using HotCat) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (trope->work, tropelist) |
||
Line 1:
{{
[[File:Centurion game cover 8849.jpg|frame|[[Pretentious Latin Motto|I came I saw I conquered]]]]
{{quote|''Beware the Ides of March''}}
''[[Centurion: Defender of Rome]]'' is a [[Turn-Based Strategy]] video game with [[Real Time Strategy|real-time battle sequences]], designed by Kellyn Beck and Bits of Magic and published by [[Electronic Arts]]. Originally released on the DOS platform for the PC in 1990, the game was later ported to the [[Amiga]] and the [[Sega Genesis]] in 1991. Centurion shares much of the concept and feel with Beck's earlier game [[Defender of the Crown]] (1987) and might be regarded as its [[Spiritual Successor]]. In turn, the [[Total War]] Series borrows a lot of concepts from both games.
The game begins in [[Ancient Rome]] in the year 275 BC, placing the player in the sandals of a centurion in the Roman army, at first leading a single legion. The player's ultimate goal is to become a Caesar through a mix of successful military conquests and internal politics of [[Bread and Circuses]]
Line 13:
----
{{tropelist}}
* [[Alternate History]]: Winning the game requires conquering nations that were never under Roman rule; Ireland–northern part of Britannia, barbarian peoples between the Rhine and Danube rivers and the Ural Mountains, and Middle East enemies like Parthia.
* [[Alternative Calendar]]: Subverted; the [[Opening Narration|intro]] uses [[Ab Urbe Condita]] (years since the foundation of Rome) but then the game uses the [[Anachronism Stew|Gregorian calendar (BC / AD)]].
| |||