Feeling that Heritage took the series too far from its city-building origins and more in the direction of a traditional combat-based real-time strategy, the designers scaled back the importance, frequency, and difficulty of combat. Having done so, they elected to combine some of the more popular game mechanics from previous titles in the series the road network from The Settlers and The Settlers II expansion by means of military outposts from The Settlers, The Settlers II, The Settlers III and The Settlers IV a correlation between military strength and the prosperity of one's city from The Settlers IV and heroes, taxation, and soldier's salary from Heritage of Kings.

However, when they receive a plea for help from a distant kingdom, they find themselves facing powerful new enemies a woman claiming to be a goddess, the cult that follows her, and the cities that serve her.Įarly in development, the game's designers set out to identify the ' Settler gene' that quintessential component or components which make the Settlers series unique.

The Eastern Realm takes place several months later, with the king and his knights slowly re-uniting the Empire. Joined by a group of loyal knights, he is opposed by the Red Prince, a dictator determined to be crowned emperor, and the Prince's senior most general, Crimson Sabatt. The player takes on the role of a king trying to re-unite the once prosperous, but now war-torn and divided Darion Empire. The game's single-player campaign is set in the same fictional universe as The Settlers: Heritage of Kings, albeit many centuries after the events of that game. In 2015, it was released on GOG.com, and in 2018, it was re-released as The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - History Edition. The Gold Edition was also released on Steam and Uplay. In September, they released The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - Gold Edition, containing the original game plus the Eastern Realm expansion, and additional single and multiplayer maps. In March 2008, Blue Byte released an expansion, The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - The Eastern Realm ( German: Die Siedler: Aufstieg eines Königreichs - Reich des Ostens), featuring new single-player campaign missions, new maps for both single-player and multiplayer modes, and an enhanced map editor.

Released for Microsoft Windows in September 2007, it is the sixth game in The Settlers series. The Settlers: Rise of an Empire ( German: Die Siedler: Aufstieg eines Königreichs) is a city-building game with real-time strategy elements, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft.

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