The game delivers the depth and replay value of a great strategy game combined with the accessibility and intuitive controls that the DS demands. An action-packed game for strategy fans with a great blend of resource management, diplomacy, strategy and tactical warfare. All set in a truly epic historical era, making History Great Empires: Rome an engrossing strategy game for the Nintendo DS. Choose from over 20 tribes including the early Romans or the ancient Britons, form alliances, build armies and capture cities.

User Reviews about History Great Empires: Rome

The tutorial is absolutely useless, after 3 minutes I restarted and jumped into one of the main campaigns. If your a seasoned pro like myself the learning curve should be no more than 15 minutes. Are the graphics bad compared to other DS titles? absolutely. However GOOD GRAPHICS DONT MAKE A GOOD GAME. Now onto the actual gameplay

It's a watered down turned based strat, so you wont have to worry about setting tax rates, making citizens happy, or any crazy build orders. You just build a farm, mine, lumberyard etc, you put your peasents there and you get resources. You build stable, blacksmith, fletcher etc then you can train cav, infantry and archers. From there you move your pixelated legionnaire to an enemy city or army then the battle starts.

I was disappointed with the battles. My first battle I arranged all my men nice and pretty and imagined that once the battle started I would have full control ( or atleast a little). Once the battle starts your men advance, break formation and hack away in a giant melee. It wont make or break the game, but it would have been nice to have some RTS controls in the battle

Its a solid strat game for the DS. After the first hour, I had all of norther Italy under my control and was enjoying myself. -- good STRATEGY game

History Channel games may not be technically the most innovative, but if you enjoy the Roman period of history, this is a fun game. It is basically a DS version of Legion Gold so if you played Legion on the PC, then you will know what you are getting.

If you haven't played Legion, the game involves building structures within your city (farms, mines, baths, etc) which allow your city to grow and better types of soldiers to be recruited. Velites (spear throwing light infantry) and peasants are the beginning types you can recruit.

When combat occurs, you can arrange your units, select your formation and basically let them go (there is no control once the battle starts). the top screen of the DS shows the little soldiers hacking away at each other (no blood or gore, very PG), the bottom screen lets you scroll over the battlefield.

Losing a battle requires lots of time rebuilding your legions, so don't get too hasty. For a simple DS game, it is solid entertainment. -- Build Cities, Raise Legions

Let me first state I am not an avid gamer, the last video game I finished was Bully on PS2. I am a 20 something college student not a 12 year old boy so when my boyfriend bought me a DS lite I thought he was insane until I found this game. I agree the graphics are poor compared to what video games these days typically look like. It is a strong strategy game geared more towards adults or geeky kids. The reviewer who bought this for the cover has spent zero minutes watching the history channel because the logo is clear as day.
The Plus
- The historical accuracy is great for a video game.
- Has mini games
Downside
- Most of the graphics if you are really into that sort of thing when it comes to video games.
- Hard to follow if you are not willing to take time to learn the game i.e reading the instruction booklet provided

I was not expecting a combat video game when I bought this item, I was looking for a video game that I could learn alittle more about Roman history from while at the same time fight boredom. If you want to buy a game for war action buy Call of Duty. -- Come on people, it has the History Channel logo on the cover!

Personally I like this except for one problem that the graphics remind me of the original mario games, in other words everything is really pixelized. The strategy is good except that even on the easy mode it still takes you forever to conquer even one city. On an overall it is a good game but I would say that you should get something else. -- the roman empire