Expeditions: Rome

Despite all the negative that can be viewed or felt on the game, i'll give this game a positive opinion, because from my perspective and all of these are subjective opinions, this game have a lot of expectation from these aspects: 1. Gameplay: The gameplay is rather simple but have more complexity from the way it looks. In praetorian combat, the gameplay have all it's element of turn-based strategy and rpg such as considering tactical, class, weapon, armor, and items to use but also some environment element in combat that can determined win/lose of the combat. But too bad the army combat is rather lacking as it just a simple choosing which card to use in order to win the combat. That much i think is really ruined some experience, but i get that we can't expect too much from a game to have it all. So i give the gameplay score 7/10. 2. Story: I never knew much of the Roman timeline history, but to what's it worth, don't expect any historical accuracy from this game as i think this game have made a clear indicator of it's historical accuracy. But other than that, the story is more than decent from my opinion. One thing for sure, there are no element of modern propaganda or ideology (at least not forced). The story is independent only for the game at those timeline. But to my surprise, i find it interesting that every major action in the gameplay can cause a different line on the story. Most games doesn't have that element anymore in these genre kind of a game and that alone i give the story score 9/10. 3. Immersion: For immersions, every aspect of this are just pure subjective. For me, the game is not so empty and silent. You can explore every corner of the game that can be explored (surely) whether in world map, the town, or some minor place. I think i haven't explored everything yet, as i saw from the community, there're still many things i didn't know. You can't interact with everything and everyone in this game, although i wish that this game have more interactable. But i guess that is too much to ask from these kind of game. You can't sell any equipment but you can make equipment from getting materials at traders for limited quantity or break any that you don't want to get materials you need for the equipment you want. This aspect is really a shame for me as it really ruins the immersion of rpg game, but at least there are some degree quality of the equipment you made. The survival is just a simple mechanics of food, water, morale and events that happened in the gameplay... other than that there is nothing worth mentioning, i think. There're no infinite scaling and continuous gameplay feature but there are some feature that the DLC provide to the gameplay unrelated to the story, and from my point of view, the DLC is rather worth it but not an essential addition to the immersions. The character class is not many but enough for the gameplay, the skill choice is there but much of it are not really that impressive although there are some that can bring much to the gameplay from my point of view. I played the game to the end and still didn't reach the level limit, so i don't know if there is a level limit. So from these aspect, i give the immersion 6/10. I really enjoyed the kind of game that have party-based rpg, open world, story and immersive gameplay. And the game Expedition: Rome have some element of surprise to it. So i recommend you to play this game but only when it's on discount.