Pyramids - The Great Battles of the Pharaoh



Pyramids - The Great Battles of the Pharaoh is a real-time strategy game, and the last installement of the Pyramids series, sequel to Pyramids, Pyramids 2 and Pyramids 3. It is suggested to be developed by Haemimont Games and Empire Entertainment and published by FX Interactive and Empire Entertainment exclusively for Microsoft Windows.

During the official release, the game will also be released in Steam.

An iPhone and iPad version, called Pyramids Battles, and an online version, called Pyramids Online, will be also released.

New features to Pyramids III

 * Instead of the campaign, the Story mode stands in the game, and covers all the Egyptian story (expecially military history), from the first Egyptian unification by Narmer / Menes to the Roman invasion of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. An affiliate mode, the Great Battles, shows alternative stories of Egypt or even the victories oc Egyptian enemies.
 * A major feature has been added in game: the Egyptian "money", the deben.
 * A new multiplayer mode, Pharaoh War, is now awaible.
 * Now, not only you can unlock wallpaper images, videos and music by completing various modes, but also by buying them.
 * The Pharaohnic Avatar in the Pharaoh War, another great new in the series, will feature several combinations, probably almost
 * All 10 factions of the previous 3 games will appear in this game, plus 2 new factions and 6 DLC, which makes a total of 18 factions.
 * The new conquest mode, Nile Valley, is added.

Main menu

 * Training
 * Story (new mode)
 * Great Battles (new mode)
 * Nile Valley (new mode)
 * Battle
 * Challenge
 * Mission
 * Multiplayer
 * Pharaoh War (new multiplayer mode)
 * Extras
 * Royal tomb (image theather)
 * Harem (video theather)
 * Musician stage (music theather)
 * Library (encyclopedia)
 * Options

Factions
All the 10 factions in the previous 3 episodes come back in this title, plus 2 new factions never appeared in there. 6 other factions are awaible to download, for free to italian and spanish users of the game (since the publishers, the FX Interactive, distribuite the game in Italy and Spain with all their affiliated countries), or payable for other countries.


 * Classic Egypt
 * Ptolemaic Egypt
 * Hatti
 * Persia
 * Rome
 * Macedon
 * Nubia
 * Lybia
 * Arabia
 * Seleucidia - Seleucide Empire
 * Assyria (new faction!)
 * Phoenicia (new faction!)


 * Babylon (DLC)
 * Carthage (DLC)
 * Greece (DLC)
 * Mitanni (DLC)
 * Sumeria (DLC)
 * India (DLC)

Other 2 factions may be addes as DLCs:
 * Gallia
 * Scythia

Story Mode
Story mode is one of the new in this game over the previous episodes. It allows the player to relive all Egyptian Campaigns with their relative villians, each one with 10 stages.

Great Battles Mode
Another new in the game is the Great Battles Mode, which, obviously, allows the player to revive new battles in the egyptian story or change the course of history. The first of the 5 battles are playable with the Egyptians, while the other 5 belong to the Hittites, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Seleucids and the Romans.

Nile Valley Mode
Another new is the Nile Valley Mode, where the player can choose a civilization among 10 (because Egypt is united in Classic and Ptolemaic, and Seleucidia was born only after Alexander the Great's death) and the eventually downloaded DLCs. Completing this Conquest-mode will unlock new screenshots and special contents, and earn deben.

The following list resembles the civilizations / factions with their Royal Guards and/or bonuses once the player manages to conquer them:

Pharaoh War Mode
Pharaoh War is the advanced version of the multiplayer mode of the game. In this mode, player can still play with other players, but not in simple games, but in competitive and cooperative versions of Story Mode, Challenge Mode, Mission Mode and ultimately Nile Valley. This mode requires the player's Pharaonic Avatar.

Winning games will raise Experience Points and allow to level up in a traditional Experience Level-Up System. The Experience Levels are resembled in ancient gerarchies, and each level up improves the parameters of the players in Multiplayer. Each gerarchy is divided in 7 levels, from slaves to kings. Each time the player gains a rank, training costs and food consumption are decreased, and training and technologies speed, gold and food production, and unit attack, defense and health are increased, each by 25% per player level, until the player reaches 150%.

Players can also create new alliances or join pre-existing ones. Each alliance can have up to 100 members. Alliances allow the players to create cooperative games in the singleplayer modes, and fight together in order to beat national/continental/world time/score records. They also allow the players to fight against other alliances in matches ranging from 1vs1 to 4vs4.

Other titles

 * Italian title: Pyramids - Le Grandi Battaglie del Faraone
 * Spanish title: Pyramids - Las Grandes Battallas del Faraòmn
 * French title: Les Grandes Battailles du Pharaon
 * German title: Die Großen Schlachten des Pharao
 * Russian title: Пирамиды: Great Battles фараонов
 * Croatian title: Piramide - Velika Bitke faraona
 * Arab title: الأهرامات - معارك كبيرة من الفراعنة
 * Korean title: 피라미드 - 파라오의 위대한 전쟁
 * Portoguese title: Pyramids - As grandes batalhas dos Faraós
 * Lituan title: Piramidės - Didžiosios Kovos faraono
 * Lettonian title: Piramīdas - Lielā Cīņas par faraona
 * Eesti title: Püramiidid - Great Battles of Pharaoh
 * Jew title: פירמידות - הקרבות הגדולים של פרעה
 * Greek title: Πυραμίδες: Οι μεγάλες μάχες των Φαραώ οι μεγάλες μάχες του Φαραώ
 * Chinese title: 金字塔 - 法老王的大战役
 * Japanese title:
 * Pyramids: ファラオの偉大な戦い (kanji)
 * Pyramids: Fuxa rao no idai natatakai(romaji)
 * Pyramids: The Great Battles of the Pharaoh (translation)