

Rise of an Empire was a commercial success, selling over 200,000 units in Germany during its first two months of release.Īt the 2007 Deutscher Entwicklerpreis, it won six awards, including Best German Game, the first game in the Settlers series to do so. Similarly, wanting to streamline and re-focus the gameplay, they also simplified the economic model, removing micromanagement and complicated daisy-chain economic processes.Īlthough the graphics were generally praised, the mission design, AI, and single-player storyline were criticised, with reviewers comparing the game unfavourably to previous Settlers titles, and games such as Anno 1701. Having done so, they elected to combine some of the more popular game mechanics from previous titles in the series the road network from The Settlers and The Settlers II expansion by means of military outposts from The Settlers, The Settlers II, The Settlers III and The Settlers IV a correlation between military strength and the prosperity of ones city from The Settlers IV and heroes, taxation, and soldiers salary from Heritage of Kings.įeeling that Heritage took the series too far from its city-building origins and more in the direction of a traditional combat-based real-time strategy, the designers scaled back the importance, frequency, and difficulty of combat. However, when they receive a plea for help from a distant kingdom, they find themselves facing powerful new enemies a woman claiming to be a goddess, the cult that follows her, and the cities that serve her. The Eastern Realm takes place several months later, with the king and his knights slowly re-uniting the Empire. The player takes on the role of a king trying to re-unite the once prosperous, but now war-torn and divided Darion Empire. In 2015, it was released on GOG.com, and in 2018, it was re-released as The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - History Edition. In September, they released The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - Gold Edition, containing the original game plus the Eastern Realm expansion, and additional single and multiplayer maps.


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