Midway Games, Inc. today released the playable demo for RISE & FALL: CIVILIZATIONS AT WAR, the innovative, hero-driven, real time strategy game due out in June 2006.

You can find the playable demo at gamespot.com and fileplanet.com

The RISE & FALL demo gives gamers the opportunity to take control of the Egyptian army as they battle the Roman empire. Players will need to utilize RISE & FALL's innovative Hero Command to control Cleopatra from a third-person perspective as she leads her army across the Nile. Players will also be able to experience one of RISE & FALL's skirmish maps as part of the demo.

RISE & FALL: CIVILIZATIONS AT WAR is the first real-time strategy game to place players directly in the heart of combat as a heroic general fighting side-by-side with their troops. Players can completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world as in a traditional RTS, but can also use RISE & FALL's innovative Hero Command to enter the battlefield as one of history's eight greatest heroes, controlling the likes of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and more, as they slash through the enemy ranks to turn the tide of battle.