The building and research options vary according to which mission the player chooses. In the five military missions, the player can fight three different enemies: the Egyptians, the Germanic tribes of the north, and the famous warriors of Carthage.
Midway through the game, the player can choose to embark on military campaigns or continue to play peaceful missions which have harder goals but no risk of invasion.
The player is granted various ranks, progressing through such titles as: Quaestor, Aedile, Censor, Tribune, Praetor and Consul.Įach campaign mission begins with the player's patron offering the greeting of 'Hail!' and then stating the character's title. The player then gets further opportunities to prove himself, meeting such historic characters as Marcus Licinius Crassus and Julius Caesar. The campaign-based mission begins when the player, an engineer, is hired by a local stone works overseer to build a stone mine colony. The game offers two types of mission: stand-alone missions to include freeplay (or 'sandbox') and campaign-based tutorial missions. Making sure that each neighborhood has access to all the commodities it needs to upgrade the residences of citizens is the primary challenge. The player manages various cities of the Roman Empire by strategic placement of buildings. It includes elements from two game series, Caesar and Civilization. CivCity: Rome is a city building strategy game by Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games.
