The player can also find over 1000 historical facts in the Civilopedia.

There are over 75 unique units, 115 different building types and 70 technologies to research in the game. The game comes with 27 different maps and 34 missions with user-created scenarios offering many game play possibilities. 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.