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Review Expeditions: Rome Siege Trailer and Reviews

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Tags: Expeditions: Rome; Logic Artists; THQ Nordic

Following up on yesterday's dev diary, today THQ Nordic released a new trailer for Expeditions: Rome offering a look at one of its siege scenarios. It appears to be an alternate history version of the Battle of Chalcedon (74 BC) in which the Roman forces were more successful. The trailer demonstrates all of the features described in the dev diary.


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Reviews of Expeditions: Rome also began appearing today. There aren't many of them, but most found it to be an ambitious and feature-rich game, albeit with some niggle or another that prevented them from giving it a perfect score. Here's the list:

Hopefully more sites will published reviews of Rome before it launches on Thursday. As the first significant RPG release of the year that's also had a free demo since last month, it should be getting attention.
 
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Larianshill said:
Infinitron said:
Game Rant 2.5/5
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Seems harsh.
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This is the article promoted at the end of that review:

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I don't think we're part of their intended audience.
 
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I would day 1 purchase this if not for the somewhat generic writing and companion cast. I want some hardnosed veteran career Roman legionaries, not the collection of tropes that the game currently offers.

I'll give it another go if/when they implement custom companions.
 
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Infinitron said:
Reviews of Expeditions: Rome also began appearing today. There aren't many of them, but most found it to be an ambitious and feature-rich game, albeit with some niggle or another that prevented them from giving it a perfect score.
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Pretty racist by those mainstream outlets.
 
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"Roman phalanxes"? I guess that's meant as a joke. If not:
The phalanx is the classical Greek city state way of war, adapted by the Macedonians and successfully used during Alexander's wars against the Persian Empire. But the heydays of the phalanx were long over when Gaius Marius reformed the Roman army into movable, flexible maniples which used to thrash that rigid Greek formations. From the depiciton of Roman technology and culture I'd say this game plays decades after Marius (for example the famous and iconic - "thanks" to Hollywood - lorica segmentata as standard army armor was only used extensively for about 150-200 years, from the beginning of the first century b.c. on. It was high-tech but very difficult to repair in the fields so the Romans prefered chain armor from the early centuries on).
 
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Ludwig von Eisenthal said:
"Roman phalanxes"? I guess that's meant as a joke. If not:
The phalanx is the classical Greek city state way of war, adapted by the Macedonians and successfully used during Alexander's wars against the Persian Empire. But the heydays of the phalanx were long over when Gaius Marius reformed the Roman army into movable, flexible maniples which used to thrash that rigid Greek formations. From the depiciton of Roman technology and culture I'd say this game plays decades after Marius (for example the famous lorica segmentata as standard army armor was only used extensively for about 150-200 years, from the beginning of the first century b.c. on. It was high-tech but very difficult to repair in the fields so the Romans prefered chain armor from the early centuries on).
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Maybe he spelled phalluses wrong?
 
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Outmind said:
Ludwig von Eisenthal said:
"Roman phalanxes"? I guess that's meant as a joke. If not:
The phalanx is the classical Greek city state way of war, adapted by the Macedonians and successfully used during Alexander's wars against the Persian Empire. But the heydays of the phalanx were long over when Gaius Marius reformed the Roman army into movable, flexible maniples which used to thrash that rigid Greek formations. From the depiciton of Roman technology and culture I'd say this game plays decades after Marius (for example the famous lorica segmentata as standard army armor was only used extensively for about 150-200 years, from the beginning of the first century b.c. on. It was high-tech but very difficult to repair in the fields so the Romans prefered chain armor from the early centuries on).
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Maybe he spelled phalluses wrong?
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Reminds me of good old Biggus Dickus:

 
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Meh, looks a bit strange to me. Somehow you seem to get to meet all the crème de la crème / who is who? of the late Republic, Romans and Barbarians alike, in your adventures. Seems rather ridiculous to me. But maybe the story manages to bring it all together... I don't know.

Also: Why no latin voice acting and english subs?

I guess I'll rather watch HBO's Rome again and wait for more indepth reviews of the game.
 
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