Alternative title(s) | Alea Jacta Est: Roman Civil Wars |
Antiquity game | CAG |
Release | Sep 27, 2012 |
Publisher | Slitherine Ltd. |
Developer | Ageod |
Platform(s) | Windows |
Mode | Single-player |
Genre | Strategy game; empire-building |
Setting | Roman history from 87 BCE to 197 CE on a large Mediterranean map, with six scenarios: ‘Tutorial’; ‘Marius vs. Sulla – 87 BC’; ‘The Great Mithridatic War – 75 BC’; ‘The Roman Civil War (Caesar vs. Pompey) – 50 BC’; ‘The Year of the Four Emperors – 68 AD’; ‘Septimius Severus – 193 AD’ |
Notable charactersB | Marius, Sulla, Mithridates, Caesar, Pompey, Septimius Severus, SpartacusDLC, HannibalDLC |
DLC | Cantabrian Wars (2014), Spartacus 73 BC (2014), Birth of Rome (2015), Hannibal Terror of Rome (2015), Parthian Wars (2015) |
Bibliography
Anglade, L. (2018). ‘La représentation de l’Antiquité dans les jeux vidéo dits historiques’ in F. Bièvre-Perrin & É. Pampanay (eds.), Antiquipop. La reference à l’Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine. Lyon [online]: MOM Editions, 160-74.
Clare, R. (2018). ‘Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Player Processes, and Transmedial Connections’. Doctoral Thesis.
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