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Centurion: Defender of Rome

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PlatformGenesisYear1991
PublisherElectronic ArtsDeveloperBits of Magic
RegionNALanguageEnglish
TagsStrategy, Turn-based, Racing, One Player
PlatformGenesis
Year1991
PublisherElectronic Arts
DeveloperBits of Magic
RegionNA
LanguageEnglish
TagsStrategy, Turn-based, Racing, One Player

A turn-based strategy game that includes real-time land and naval battle sequences. You start with one legion and use diplomacy and your military to take over the known world. Perform chariot races to raise extra money.
 
GoodBad
  • Diplomatic options for taking over territory
  • Difficulty levels that can be set for individual parts of the game
  • Beautiful graphics
  • Can save your progress
  • Easily accessible strategy title
  • Diplomatic options require a lot of trial and error and are unintuitive
  • Lacks gladiator game from the PC version
  • Washed out colors
  • Saving your progress requires using long passwords
  • Realtime battles can get repetitive
  • Chariot racing is incredibly hard
  • Tactical battles require a blind choice of starting formation
  • Simplistic naval battles
Good
  • Diplomatic options for taking over territory
  • Difficulty levels that can be set for individual parts of the game
  • Beautiful graphics
  • Can save your progress
  • Easily accessible strategy title
 
Bad
  • Diplomatic options require a lot of trial and error and are unintuitive
  • Lacks gladiator game from the PC version
  • Washed out colors
  • Saving your progress requires using long passwords
  • Realtime battles can get repetitive
  • Chariot racing is incredibly hard
  • Tactical battles require a blind choice of starting formation
  • Simplistic naval battles
 
6I enjoy the aestetics and light casual nature of it's charming presentation however it is missing a lot of things keeping it from being a great strategy game. Triggering diplomatic options at the right time requires choices that are neither intuitive nor logical. Getting good at chariot races is vital at higher difficulty levels in order to get the money you need however that is incredibly difficult even on low difficulty levels.

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