Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Emperor: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a game about politics, trade, and city design in ancient China. In Emperor, players progress through 3000 years of Chinese history, facing ever-changing economic…
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a real time strategy (rts) developed by BreakAway Games, released 9 September 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by BreakAway Games and released in 2002. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a city-building video game and the sixth title in the City Building series, released in 2002 for Microsoft Windows. BreakAway Games was contracted for Emperor after having previously worked on Queen of the Nile. Emperor is the last of the series to use the same 2D-sprite game engine as seen in the earlier titles, and the first to introduce a multiplayer option.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom launched on 9 September 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Kingdom Hearts and Mafia. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Kingdom Hearts, Mafia.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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