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Millennium's second isometric adventure game is a humorous romp in the
ancient Roman Empire. You start life as a poor slave in Herculaneum, which
along with Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Versuvius. Eventually you
travel to Rome and climb the social ladder, becoming a Captain in the army, a
Senator and eventually Emperor of Rome. Four of the game's six levels are adventure
style romps, while in the other two levels you control an army in an attempt to
conquer an enemy of Rome. The game is made all the more interesting by the little
details to be seen around the levels; from naked people running around the Baths,
to buying slaves to fight in the Gladiatorial games. There are also RPG aspects to
the game, especially in the way you have the freedom to choose how to deal with
various problems. It's a vast improvement over the publisher's previous game,
Adventures of Robin Hood, in every respect. The tiny characters are still there,
but they are much easier to see thanks to VGA graphics and smoother animations.
Most puzzles require astute observation of people's daily lives and good timing
(a sequence in which you must wait to steal a citizen's toga is a case in point).
The cities are teeming with priests, citizens, officials, warriors, and other
kinds of people, all of whom have things to say when you stop them on the street.
The game is divided into self-contained episodes, each of which must be solved in
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