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Product Information
- Build your Rome: Build your city in any imaginable combination. Bask in the awe-inspiring glory of more than 100 unique structures.
- Expanded Economic Control: With over 30 tradable goods, 10 industries, 4 markets and foreign trade routes the economic possibilities are vast.
- Leading Edge Graphics: High dynamic range lighting, specular and bump mapping along with realistic weather effects and a complete day / night cycle bring Rome to life in never before seen detail.
- Experience Life in Ancient Rome: Interact with more than 75 unique characters within your city.
- Improved Combat Functionality: Take direct control over your legions, who gain experience through combat and training, as you ward off barbaric invasions
- Over 100 Hours of Gameplay: Including career mode, standalone competitive scenarios, and sandbox mode.
Product Description
Hail Ceasar! The best selling city-builder series returns. Caesar IV takes the ancient city builder to the next generation with leading edge graphics and expanded control over the Roman Empire. Developed by the award-winning creators of Caesar III and Pharaoh, Caesar IV is sure to please the masses.Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar. As governor, you will have total control over your province: including city planning, finances, and defenses. As you succeed you will be given new challenges in other provinces within the Roman Empire ultimately ending in the heart of the empire: Rome.Caesar IV represents the culmination of more than a decade of development experience in the city-builder genre making it the definitive ancient city-builder. Plebs need not apply.
Review
In a nutshell:
Build Rome in a day with the first Caesar game in full 3D. Theres not much debauchery here though, but plenty of zone planning and fending off pesky barbarians.
The lowdown:
Pitched as a sort of SimCity 100BC, Caesar IV is a little more structured than its modern equivalent, as youre put in charge of an increasingly large population, while also keeping Rome happy by furnishing it with whatever goods it requires. You cant just slap buildings down anywhere though but most consider aesthetics, supply and demand and the three tier social structure. The interface couldve been a touch more intuitive, or at least not so thoroughly old fashioned, but this is still easily the best historical city builder in terms of depth, graphics and the impression of being in control of an actual living, breathing city.
Most exciting moment:
Combat is by no means the focus of Caesar IV but there are plenty of fights to get into. Naturally most of the battles revolve around the defence of your city and as such you can build huge defensive walls as well as specialised guard towers and barracks.
Since you ask:
Many of the designers at developer Tilted Mill also worked on the original Caesar game, the last one of which appeared over seven years ago. The studios first game, to which Caesar IV has many similarities, was Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile for Sega.
The bottom line:
Fiddle while Rome builds in the most comprehensive city sim yet. -HARRISON DENT
