Walls of Rome (video game)

Walls of Rome is a computer game developed by Mindcraft in 1993 for IBM and compatibles.

Design

The game was designed by Ali Atabek, Scott Baker, Paul Kellner, and James Thomas, with Kellner also serving as the project coordinator, and Thomas as the lead programmer. The game featured art by Scott Baker, Steve Beam, Steve Burke, and Juan L. Galceran.^[1]

Plot

Walls of Rome is a tactical war game about sieges in the time of the Roman Empire. In this game, the player takes the role of either attacker or defender in a siege assault on a fortification. Each side has an assortment of weapons, troops, and techniques, ranging from Phoenicians to Roman auxiliaries, to cavalry, and from siege towers to Greek fire. The player can also build scenarios and play them or trade them with a friend who also owns the game.^[1]

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon #207 by Sandy Petersen in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Petersen gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.^[1]

Walls of Rome was a runner-up for Computer Gaming World's 1993 "Wargame of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Clash of Steel. The editors wrote of Walls of Rome, "In this sequel to Siege, the AI is less predictable than in the previous releases, the historical research is extremely solid (including many obscure battles that you can't find anywhere else and historical uniforms/banners which are something of a miniaturist's dream), and a multi-player modem capacity that takes the game up another notch in our opinion."^[2]

See also

• List of Roman Empire video games

References

External links

• Walls of Rome at Allgame
• Walls of Rome at MobyGames