although I grimly pushed through the rest of the Peaceful missions in the hopes things would get more interesting. It took all of about an hour for me to master it, and just a couple more before I was thoroughly bored with it. It's not a terrible game, but it's quite shallow and pretty easy.

Each of them has minor variations, and you can get significant debates about which is 'best' (personally, I prefer Emperor - the Feng Shui mechanic makes it less a matter of simply fitting in pre-designed housing blocks and forces more creative adaptation to the map in question).Ĭhildren of the Nile is the last in Sierra's City Building series so far and is quite different from it's predecessors I actually picked it up on sale from GoG a week ago or so and haven't played much of it yet.

Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom was the last of the officially-sanctioned Caesar-3 knockoffs, and was actually made by a different group. You'll find Zeus and Pharoah to be extremely similar to Caesar 3, but all three are great games (if a bit old at this point that said, they still run fine and their graphics haven't aged too badly).

Civ city rome or grand ages rome