Grand Ages: Rome is a city-building game for PC. The player takes the role of a Roman patrician, a nobleman, who has just started his political career. His ultimate goal is to become the Governor of Rome.

Throughout the game the player can develop his game character by gaining favor with various historical figures such as Julius Caesar, Pompey and Octavian. The benefits provided by these relations are carried over not only for the rest of the campaign but also in free-build maps and multiplayer scenarios.

Grand Ages: Rome features completely new graphics, new buildings and environments, a new and improved economic system, an improved battle system and a comprehensive multiplayer mode.

Viva Media CEO Carlo Voelker commented, “We are thrilled to be releasing an exciting game like Grand Ages: Rome. It’s incredibly deep and historically rich, but at the same time extremely user-friendly and fun to play.” He went on to say, “It’s exciting to be working with Kalypso to bring this game to North America. It’s a brainchild of some of the industry’s top talent and has so much to offer in terms of graphics, storyline, and multiplayer functionality.” Kalypso Media MD Simon Hellwig adds that “It is a great pleasure for us to work with Viva. We expect that Viva Media will do a great job and we hope this cooperation will be beneficial for both companies. It is definitely time to know more about Kalypso and its products in America – and Grand Ages: Rome is the right product to present our games to American consumers.”

Key Features :

• A new and improved graphics engine.
• Persistent Player Character - benefits gained from completed quests are persistent and can be used on any mission, including campaign, free-play and multiplayer
• Campaign that features 20 maps of historical cities and locations
• Patrons - more than 20 historical figures that offer additional objectives to the player
• Over 60 buildings & 50 units
• Ships and Islands
• New and Improved Economics
• A multiplayer mode which includes both co-operational and competitive tasks as well as a range of exclusive multi-player maps.
• Enhanced battle system with standard RTS control of the squads
• Grand Monuments such as the Coliseum, Circus Maximus and the Pantheon
• City States - famine, siege, riots, etc.
• Disasters - random disasters such as plagues, fires and earthquakes. All such disasters will be visualized.

Grand Ages: Rome is scheduled for an release in January 2009.