History VideoGame / RyseSonOfRome

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Boudica, the Horned King, and even Commodus all put up boss-level fights against Marius.

* VillainousValour: While Commodus boasts of victories others won and resorts to cheating very quickly, he does put up a good and long fight against Marius.

** During the gladiator fights, Nero jokes with Aquilo that he doesn't really care if his son lives or dies, but when Marius actually succeeds in killing Commodus, Nero is clearly genuinely devastated.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Crytek themselves admitted they weren't aiming for historical accuracy. Hence why Nero is an old man with two grown sons whereas he died childless at the age of 31, and Boudicca sacking Rome with war elephants.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Though his status as evil is debatable, [[spoiler:King Oswald]] willingly cooperates with [[spoiler:his Roman captors when his daughter's life is threatened]].

* OffWithHisHead: What happens to [[spoiler:Commodus]], thanks to Marius [[spoiler:disguised as the vengeful spirit of Damocles]].

* TheCaligula: The ruler of Rome in game Nero, and his two sons.

* FatherToHisMen: Marius and Commander Vitallian.

* FatherToHisMen: Marius and Commander Vitalian.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Though his status as evil is debatable, King Oswald willingly cooperates with his Roman captors when his daughters life is threatened.
** Debatable with Basilius, since he orders Vitalian and his legion to rescue his brother, when leaving his brother Commodus to die would have been advantageous to him.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: After being mortally wounded and under the mercy of Marius, Boudica just calmly tells him to get on with it. Marius does so, though albeit rather hesitantly.

* OffWithHisHead: What happens to Commodus, thanks to Marius disguised as the vengeful spirit of Damocles.
** Also happens to Boudica.
* KarmicDeath: Commodus is killed and decapitated by Marius, whilst [[BlasphemousBoast boasting]] throughout the entire fight [[AGodAmI that he is a God]].
* PragmaticVillainy: Defied by Commodus. King Oswald was willing to make peace under terms of his people being treated better and as equals. Instead, Commodus stabs Oswald to death whilst feigning acceptance of his terms, which not only causes the Britons to retaliate, but causes York to fall and the Romans losing Britannia.
* ProphecyTwist: An oracle, whom Marius meets after killing Basilius, states that Emperor Nero can only die by his own sword. It is assumed that he can only be killed by killing himself, but it is in fact that he is plunged by Marius from a great height and impaled by a marble sword held by a tall statue of himself.

Ryse: Son of Rome is an Xbox One game developed by Crytek.

* BadAssBoast: What Marius says to Nero after beheading Commodus
--> '''Marius: I am Damocles ! I am Vengeance ! YOU.ARE.NEXT !'''

* KarmicDeath: Commodus is killed and decapitated by Marius, whilst boasting throughout the entire fight that he is a God.

* TheGloryThatWasRome:

* TheGloryThatWasRome: By game's end, the city of Rome itself is beset by Barbarians, its armies are disorganized and weakened, and to make matters worse the entire thing could have been avoided if the empire wasn't ruled by three hedonistic idiots.

* TheGloryThatWasRome: By game's end, Rome is beset by Barbarians, its armies are disorganized and weakened, and to make matters worse the entire thing could have been avoided if the empire wasn't ruled by three hedonistic idiots.

ActionGirl: Boudica.

AncientRome: The setting.

TheCaligula: The ruler of Rome in game Nero, and his two sons.

TheGloryThatWasRome: By games end Rome is beset by Barbarians, its armies are disorganized and weakened, and to make matters worse the entire thing could have been avoided if the empire wasn't ruled by three hedonistic idiots.

Ryse: Son of Rome is an Xbox One game developed by Crytek.