Hephaestion

Nor do Alexander's love interests stand out as being very alluring personalities. On this disc, we run across both Hephaestion (who seems to have deliberately been drawn to look like a woman... but as the real guy was supposedly very beautiful, this may not be the dodge it appears to be) and Roxanne (whom Alexander manages to run across bathing in Babylon). Of course, there's only the subtlest hint of mutual affection shown between the two men... but then again, Alexander doesn't seem all that interested in Roxanne when catches her in the buff, either. At least Hephaestion smirks a lot and seems self-satisfied... whereas she's just bland by comparison.

The actual setting of Reign: The Conqueror also feels somewhat confused; it's never entirely clear whether or not this is supposed to be an alternate history rife with magic, gods, and conveniently-transposed historical figures... or some far-future version of the events surrounding Alexander's rise to power, in a world replete with amazing technological marvels and eye-defying architectural feats. (And when I say 'technology', I'm not even talking steampunk here, despite the fact that the actual Hero of Alexandria did essentially invent the steam engine in the first century BC. No, I mean culture-defining high-tech.)