An RPG with a tactical battle system.
Expeditions: Rome takes players and throws them into Roman times, while you flee from enemies who kill your father, and look to make a name for yourself. You meet a lot of interesting characters, many of which are based on real people like this member of my party Gaius Julius Caesar. I wonder if he’s known for anything. Now, I probably mispronounced it, but the game does an amazing job pronouncing each character’s name, and shows a love of the time period, even if it’s not always fully accurate.
While the opening had several interesting battles that all felt different, this is a game that feels like it’ll eventually devolve into the typical “kill everyone you see” or fail to create interesting locations. The dialogue works well but does seem to fall into the binary moral systems just with more categories represented at times. The movement outside of combat requires the player to wait until their entire party does some action like climbing a ladder.
Pick this up if you’re a fan of Roman times, or want to play an RPG. Expeditions: Rome is good, and the writing and characters are interesting, however it switches between RPG sections with heavy dialogue and combat sections with minimal dialogue often. Still, I'm interested to see where this game goes and what happens to the characters in it.
If you want to see more from me: Check out my video on this month of Game Pass games: https://youtu.be/tgNS9djM5ak
Expeditions: Rome takes players and throws them into Roman times, while you flee from enemies who kill your father, and look to make a name for yourself. You meet a lot of interesting characters, many of which are based on real people like this member of my party Gaius Julius Caesar. I wonder if he’s known for anything. Now, I probably mispronounced it, but the game does an amazing job pronouncing each character’s name, and shows a love of the time period, even if it’s not always fully accurate.
While the opening had several interesting battles that all felt different, this is a game that feels like it’ll eventually devolve into the typical “kill everyone you see” or fail to create interesting locations. The dialogue works well but does seem to fall into the binary moral systems just with more categories represented at times. The movement outside of combat requires the player to wait until their entire party does some action like climbing a ladder.
Pick this up if you’re a fan of Roman times, or want to play an RPG. Expeditions: Rome is good, and the writing and characters are interesting, however it switches between RPG sections with heavy dialogue and combat sections with minimal dialogue often. Still, I'm interested to see where this game goes and what happens to the characters in it.
If you want to see more from me: Check out my video on this month of Game Pass games: https://youtu.be/tgNS9djM5ak