Posted on: September 17, 2021

viL0u

Games: 122 Reviews: 26

The Year of the City Builder Dragon

Its simple. Do you still love Caesar III ? And do you like traditional Chinese vibes ? Just play it. This game is the satisfactory conclusion of the Sierra's city builder era. A gem.

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Posted on: March 27, 2019

dalamb

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Games: 209 Reviews: 1

The best of the classic city-builders

I've played Zeus/Poseidon, Pharaoh/Cleopatra, and one of the early Caesars, and this was the city-builder I liked best. I even prefer it to 3D variants like Children of the Nile. I liked the choice of heroes to summon, which you can tailor to your goals, be they war or peace. Getting perfect feng shui via proper building placement is an interesting challenge once you master the basics (though not possible on every map). The walker gates give much better control than is possible with any of the others, though if you don't construct one of the standard loop configurations, you can run into the classic problem of an inspector going preferentially in one direction and missing some structure that's technically within reach. That, plus the need to placate the heroes periodically, makes it impossible to just let the game run to completion when you get everything set up the way you want. But this was a minor issue for me, since running at high speed and watching the workers build your monuments is often fun enough on its own. As with many strategy games, there is an active user community at heavengames that produces interesting scenarios once you finish the campaign, though most are aimed at the highest level of difficulty.

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Posted on: December 9, 2019

zyhkz

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Games: 141 Reviews: 1

Please add Chinese language support!

This is a wonderful city build game! I played it 16 years ago. It helped me to learn the wonderful history of China. I love it. So I bought it again when I see it is in GOG. But the GOG version does not support Chinese language. And my old version have Chinese language. I really want it to have Chinese language support, as it is Emperor: Rise of China :)

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Posted on: September 18, 2020

josephcott

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Games: 5 Reviews: 1

Favorite City Builder!!

My mom bought me this game when I was 10 years old, back around 2004. I've played it on PC and now I have it on my macbook. I love it so much. Teaches you some history, the cities you build can actually look very beautiful. And the campaign creator.... that's quite the beast. You can just completely create new campaigns ground-up, down to the very specifics like which commodities cities can trade and at what rate. I'd recommend this to anyone who loves city builders. Even though it's kinda old, it's still great. I'll probably continue playing this for years!!

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Posted on: December 28, 2020

Wolfe79

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Games: 68 Reviews: 1

The ancient China sim you need to play

This is an excellent builder. i first spent ages on this back in 2005-2008, but rediscovered the affection for it lately. I am not going to elaborate hugely as most of the pros have been said by other reviewers - the art, mechanics and style is absolutely top notch and immersive for anyone looking for an easy relaxing single player strat. The only con I can highlight is the issue with armies control, units sometimes tend to go against the orders and engage the enemy when you don't want them to. But even this is far from enough to make me question the quality of the experience. 4.75/5

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