Pros. Beautiful landscapes Very well done graphics A nice civilization style building game Great if you love finances, spreadsheets, playing the stock market or want to be an accountant Cons. 1. Building your civilization devolves into a heated rush every game that gets faster and faster with the only goal being to beat your apponent to the financial finish line. 2. It seems to become (rapidly) less about "lets play a game" and more "lets beat the numbers". 3. What good are all the new senarios and graphics when the game never really changes are adds something new? In other words, as said before, one objective only. Beat your apponent to financial success as fast as you can. 4, A never ending payout. So far the cost of everything is up to $49.93 and while this game is nice, paying $5.00 and up continually for every new expansion imo is ludicrous. Big title games cost $50.00 or $60.00 with much more content than this. A new DLC for this game is actually $14.00. Finally, I was going to at least give it three stars but seeing how much they are charging drops it down to two. It's dissapointing. It's a beautiful game and great concept. I feel they could do so much more but their coasting along on making money off expansions that really add little more to the game.
I see a lot of 4 stars and don't know why. The 1st game was fantastic. The 2nd game felt a bit dry, probably because the 1st game twisted your brain inside out and backwards before you knew what happened. So what are the really big highlights of this game the 3rd that make it so good. Well, the Shalebridge cradle is first to mind. It has probably won the the very top award for being the most mentally and gut twisting suspense in any game created to date. The game is worth playing if that was all you would play even. You wont be disappointed. I find often that the defining factors from gamers are their foundation of game play. PC or Console gamer. Few use both and for good reason. 75% of the time the 2 classes are vastly different in opinions, likes and dislikes. I'm a PC gamer and love this. Now the 4th was heavily console based which really effected every last detail. Get this though and enjoy it. My favorites are 1 and 3 of the thief titles.
