Structure is still deeply derivative of traditional real-time strategy gaming, not to mention entirely automated, so you don't have to worry about any micromanagement. From these humble beginnings, you move on to establish an entire town by gathering resources, feeding peasants, and providing a few luxuries to make life in the sticks worthwhile. Missions start with the hero knight of your choice out in the wilderness, as well as a couple of start-up buildings, such as a castle and a storehouse. As with the campaign in the original game, the scenarios in Eastern Realm deal primarily with building medieval towns over and over again. More time is spent exploring the glories of serfdom than smiting enemies, though. Mission themes remain divided between sedate city building and real-time warfare, which follows in the footsteps of Age of Empires. Bad guys with ties to the defeated Red Prince are stirring up trouble, so you're called on to establish new settlements in these foreign lands and quiet everything down. The story is an immediate follow-up to the events of the first game, and you'll send settlers of the medieval Darion Empire to its India-resembling eastern neighbors to investigate the disruption of a trade route. A handful of embellishments have also been added to the list of town decor so you can now deck out settlements with triumphal arches and sundials. The interface has been tweaked in a few minor ways: A new knight is now on the roster of selectable heroes, trading posts can now be built to schlep goods to allies, a new well can be built to take advantage of monsoons, and geologists have been given the ability to refill mines. You can move from the original Rise of an Empire into the Eastern Realm campaign without breaking stride. More combat and more involved objectives have been added to spice up mostly lackadaisical mission design, although the whole affair is still awfully formulaic.ДЄdditional emphasis on the military makes Eastern Realm a bit more explosive. Obscuring this fact actually makes a lot of sense, however, because the new campaign missions are so similar to those in the original game that it's not worth making a fuss over them. Even though the only draw of The Settlers: Rise of an Empire Gold Edition is the Eastern Realm expansion pack (previously released on its own in Europe), the inclusion of this new add-on is noted only in the fine print near the bottom of the front of the game box.

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