• Persistent Player Character – benefits gained from completed quests are persistent and can be used on any mission, including campaign, free-play and multiplayer
• Non-linear Campaign that features 40 mission
• More than 60 buildings
• 16 military units, including barbarian mercenaries
• New and Improved Economics – simplified resource mechanics, fall off areas of effect of buildings
• Castes – slaves, plebs, equites and patricians
• Multiplayer – cooperative and competitive mode including the unique Team City mode
• Grand Monuments such as the Coliseum, Circus Maximus and the Pantheon