Caesar III

The Good
The music is good.

Graphics are vibrant, and obviously a great improvement from Caesar II.

Battle screens have combined with city building screens. So battles will occur only on edge of the map.

The fact that you have to listen to your people is realistic. A country cannot do without its people. In order to improve your city, you have to listen to comments from your citizens and upgrade accordingly. You also have to manage more minor factors to success, like goods transportation, which Caesar II did not have.

The Bad
Battles are rather boring. You can only defend the city but not attack others.

This game is focused too much on city-building, in my opinion. If it could focus on expanding Rome while building cities, it could be the ultimate city-building simulation game ever created.

The Bottom Line
The assignments can be completed, but you will have unlimited Scenarios to do! Great game with several important factors to pay attention to.

The Good
The first few scenarios that also serve as tutorials really do a good job of sucking you into the game. You kind of want to build more and more stuff so that you will be able to see what comes next. There are also nice comments from the towns-people that tell you whether they are happy with you or not. The buildings look good and so do the people as they walk around.

The Bad
After some time, the scenarios become a case of doing the same thing, building the city and trying to meet certain goals which get harder and harder as time goes by. Then the military factor is there, its just a case of having more trained men than the enemy, and you have almost no control over them.

The Bottom Line
It is actually a very entertaining city building game, which is let down by an inferior military model. Play it to discover what a city building game should be like

The Good
The gameplay is much smoother in the third installment, as well as being more diverse. There are more buildings to build, more things to keep track of, and so on. But it's all done without becoming tedious or burdensome.

The graphics are miles ahead of the first two games, and the cities are very pretty to look at when they get going.

The Bad
Some of the levels can be a little frustrating.

The Bottom Line
SimCity 715BC.