Ryse: Son of Rome (0)

First release date

2013-11-22

Platform

PC Xbox One

Developer

Crytek GmbH

Publisher

Microsoft Studios Crytek GmbH Deep Silver

Aliases

Codename: Kingdoms

Overview

Marius and his commander, Vitallion.

Ryse: Son of Rome is an action-adventure game developed by for and . First revealed at Microsoft's press conference under the name Codename: Kingdoms, it was initially designed for the Xbox 360 as a exclusive. After this first unveiling, not much was heard about it until a reimagined version of the game resurfaced at as an Xbox One launch title. Most of the Kinect features had been dropped (with the exception of some ) in favour of a more standard controller-based action game.

The retail version of the game was published by whereas the digital versions are published by Crytek themselves. The PC version of the game which included all of the released DLC and support for 4k resolution was released on October 10th 2014.

Ryse was the first game to utilise the 4th generation which boasted being capable of rendering more than 100 characters on on screen at any given time and character models being indistinguishable between cutscenes and gameplay.

Story

Set in an alternative historic ancient circa 68 A.D, the story follows soldier and begins with Marius leading the Roman defence against an oncoming barbarian attack led by Boudica (the barbarian leader). At the offset of the game Marius hands a small package to to ally with instructions to display its contents from an elevated position before proceeding to secure the Roman emperor Nero by guiding him to his personal safe room. While journeying along a secret passageway to the safe room with the emperor, Nero employs Marius to tell him his soldier's story at which point the game enters an extended flashback sequence telling Marius story up until this point.

After barbarians kills his family, Marius will rise and build a army to take revenge against the barbarian horde.

Gameplay

Gladiator: Blood Brothers [Cooperative]

Battle in the Colosseum.

RYSE will feature a coop mode set in a Colosseum. The Gladiator: Blood Brothers mode will pit two players against hordes of barbarians. Players must survive waves of enemies and complete the given objective. Enemy varieties are randomized with every match. The usual match will last between 10 to 30 minutes.

Kinect Integration

With Kinect a player can give optional voice commands to units in the battlefield, launch fire suppressing arrows, or hold off incoming attacks.

Smartglass Integration

will give the player the ability to manage inventory, to strategize when in battle and give players access to character upgrades. Users can track friend's games progress, share video clips with friends, and smart match with friends in multiplayer. Hints and in-game tips are given to the player, with achievement integration. Players' collectible progress will be tracked along with the campaign progress.

Release

Standard Edition ($59.99)

The regular edition of the game without the content listed below.

Day One Edition ($59.99) Limited Release

As part of Xbox One's launch lineup, Ryse is participating in the Day One Edition program along with and . A Day One edition gave access to:

Legionnaire's Trust Exclusive Sword that includes bonus in-game attributes.
Ruins - Columns of an abandoned temple, Ruin will pit players against hordes of barbarians. Day One owners can invite friends who own the standard edition.