Via Gamespot, 2404 and Gods & Heroes: 
You don’t often get to use the phrase “Friends, Romans, countrymen” when playing a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, but you will when Perpetual Entertainment and Sony release Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising later this year. Like other MMORPGs, Gods & Heroes will give players the chance to explore a virtual world populated with thousands of other players.
Gods & Heroes is about the epic struggle that ensues when the Telchine gods - the predecessors of Roman gods such as Jupiter and Venus - reappear in the world. Players will create heroic characters who are descendants of the Roman gods:
- Soldiers serve Minerva or Mars
- Gladiators serve Fortuna or Jupiter
- Scouts serve Diana or Apollo
- Nomads serve Nemesis or Mercury
- Priests serve Juno or Pluto
- Mystics serve Trevia or Bacchus
Heroes fight against the Telchine usurpers armed with weapons and abilities granted by the deities. Along the way, players also battle iconic enemies including the Gauls, Greeks, and Samnites, as well as mythological creatures such as the Cyclops, the Minotaur, the Hydra, and Medusa.
Why make ancient Rome the subject of a new MMORPG? The Gods & Heroes makers give the following explanation:
When one stops to think about Rome and her influence throughout time, one comes to realize that the culture, the mythology, and even the very city of Rome has played an enormous role in today’s society. Their structures still stand, their way of life has influenced everything from our buildings and structures (aqueducts, anyone?) to the way we think and write. Not to mention that their history is the stuff of legend.
Their history and myth has had a deeply profound effect on the way we tell stories today. Famous historian and writer, Joseph Campbell talked about how the Hero’s Journey is the foundation of nearly all our storytelling today, in his (very) famous book, “The Hero’s Journey.” This mythology is so profound, in fact, that it can be spotted in almost every single Disney film, and the underlying structure is prevalent in all of our story-based media.
When one really examines the Romans, history comes to life through adventure and sorrow. There’s something magical about that, and there’s something that sets it apart from many other civilizations and it’s that magic we want to capture and bring to you, the player.
