CivCity: Rome

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CivCity: Rome From 2K Games List Price: $39.99 Price: $9.60 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by BLS Mart 33 new or used available from $2.05 Average customer review:

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A City-Builder Game in the World of Sid Meier'sCivilization!Product InformationCivCity: Rome is an innovative city-builder inspired by the world of Sid Meier'sCivilization.  Through dozens of missions you will be charged withbuilding nurturing and managing Rome's great cities as you endeavor to lead theEmpire to its mighty apogee.  Featuring hundreds of buildings includinggladiatorial schools amphitheatres the Circus Maximus legionnaire fortsweapons workshops and much more CivCity: Rom offers an incredibly detailed lookat Roman life in one of the deepest city-builders ever created. Activities Include Protect: Form legionaries weapons makers watchmen walls and gates to guard your city against invaders. Beautify: Build gardens fountains statues arches and mighty wonders to awe and inspire your citizens. Build: Establish the infrastructure of your city with a town center aqueduct roads bridges jetties and mines. Grow: Cultivate olives grapes dates fruit wheat and livestock to feed your population and trade with neighbors. Live: Fill dozens of jobs with butchers fish mongers barbers bakers glass blowers florists and weavers. Entertain: Let culture thrive with musician schools theatres gladiators arenas animal fights and chariot races.Product Features Combat in the Coliseum Train gladiators and beasts to fight in the arenas; one of many ways to keep your population happy. Look inside the buildings for the first time in a city-builder game remove the roof from the buildings and see what's going on inside. The Wonders of Civilization Research and build mighty wonders including the Circus Maximus Great Library Pantheon Trajan's Column and more. Civilize your city Use the rich research tree to develop over 70 technologies to give your city a strategic advantage. Follow the life of a Roman family Check in at any moment on any of the thousands of fa

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3887 in Video Games
• Brand: 2K Games
• Model: 7.10E+11
• Released on: 2006-07-24
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 5.25" w x 7.50" l, .40 pounds

Features

• For the first time in a city builder you can look inside the Villas, forums, and even the Roman baths
• Create your own living community simply by choosing and placing the wide variety of buildings
• Place hundreds of unique buildings across the city - more options than any other city building game
• Manage and interact with real Romans - bring high drama to your city with their emotions, state of health, and candid feelings about the city
• Build mighty wonders and monuments to influence your city and make it look great

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Customer Reviews

Average City Building Title Average city-builder game that brings nothing new to the table. Suppossedly, it's inspired by the Civilation series (specifically, Civ4), however it clearly lacks any measure of the in-depth experience and obsessive fun the Civ games bring to the table. Game play is clunky and not as obvious as one is used to in either the Civ games or city-building games in general. For example, it's not obvious where you would send your tribute to Rome, and it took me several failed Roman requests for me to realize that I had to go to a menu, select the tribute in question and then dispatch it. The game is also buggy, or, perhaps this interesting "feature" is by design. My city was filled with two-thirds homeless and unemployed people, and yet my city happiness was at 100. This was without toggling any of the indicators that would affect my city's population. Other lacking features include the exceptionally small map sizes (whereas most city-building games allow for large maps and ample opportunity to grow), build times being instant (very un-Civ!), and uninspired campaign missions. To name a few. Overall, considering the claimed inspiration for CCR, the game is uninspired and uninspires. Pharoah and even Zeus are much better titles and have aged well, and you're more likely to want to play those games over CCR. Buggy and lacking depth. This is a good attempt at a game that sadly misses due to obviously being rushed to market. There are several game breaking bugs, for example the cursor ingame is skewed and doesn't match its location on the map. Meaning it is difficult to target. The graphics aren't very good, yet the performance is pretty poor on fairly powerful machines. Furthermore, this game has a very poor interface with big console like buttons, and a clumsey build interface. The economic system in the game is completely lacking, with little indepth data on the inner workings of your city. Medieval Lords, a low budget title from Monte Cristo is a far far better city building game than this. Ultimately, this is a dissappointing game that could have been much better if a bit more care was taken during development. Good game - I like it I think this is a great game and my wife and I are currently addicted to it. It's definitely more to the SimCity style of play than the Civilization series; though it allows more granular control of your city than SimCity. The only Civilization aspect is the research which is enjoyable. But other than that there isn't much "Civ" to CivCity (which isn't necessarily bad). This game reminds me heavily of a german title "Knights and Merchants" (1998) but with much better implementation. On that note, if you find that this game isn't for you, try the VERY similar but much easier "Glory of the Roman Empire". This game is definitely challenging, but in a good way. Someone complained about small maps - the maps get bigger as your progress through the game and the small maps are small for a reason - it adds challenge to the game (for example, there is an island map with limited resources which requires that you build a shipping fleet). The interface is generally good, but there are some non-intuitive things like sending tributes. I think the graphics are nice, especially the temples, but it's definitely not the end-all as far as graphics go. There are a lot of city beautification enhancements (fountains, gardens, etc) that I don't tend to mess with, but they are pretty and increase your city's happiness. (Your citizens will candidly tell you if they think your city "is a dump". I think they did an excellent job on the citizen interaction - amusing yet useful.) Regarding the "game breaking" click-select bug. I'm playing at 1024x768 resolution and I barely have any problems with it. When I do, I simply rotate my map and I'm able to select what I want. I don't consider the bug to be "game breaking" or even all that annoying; though I'm glad they're coming out with a patch to fix it. All in all, I think the game play is excellent. Like all modern games, the implementation was rushed (nothing that a patch won't fix, though). I suspect the game will age well and have a high-replay value.