First let's see the good. For some reason I like the art style. I thought I would hate it, but playing the game it comes out as pretty nice. The next good thing would be that jumpy nature of the original is gone. Now the changes in culture (housing upgrade/downgrade) and worker availability are not jumping back and forts, like, from meager shantry to spacious apartment, and -100 workers to 20% unemployment. Monuments CAN be rotated. (although they could be rotated in the original by rotating the map) Naval combat does not drive me crazy - as there is technically no naval combat. And that's all. I started to list the shortcomings, but then I realized that in every other aspect the game is inferior to the original. I DO hope that the developers will pull themselves together, that's why I bought the game. But as for now, I do not recommend it to anyone. Play Pharaoh Gold + 1080 patch instead.
