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2 stars
Version: Caesar IV demo
"The game no longer ahead of the game"
Pros: The concept of city building that Caesar once introduced is still good: the new graphics are well done and surely an improvement, the development of roads and placing of buildings is way better then caesar III, giving more options of making a beautiful city, which I liked.
Cons: ... but that is about all the improvement there is: just the graphics. Gameplay is very much the same: there were a few buildings added, but that's about it. The graphics make the game, at least this demo, difficult to run. On my computer, which has a 256 MB videocard and 1 gig of Ram, it got stuck. Only when I downgraded the graphics to best performance, did it run somewhat normally, to get stuck once again as the city grew big. This is a surprise, because Children of the Nile, a city builder that is much heavier on graphics then this game, runs fine on my computer.
The aim of a free demo is to convince people to buy the real thing, but if the demo runs as ****** as this one, I am for sure not buying the game. Which is a shame, because even though gameplay wasn't improved I was itching to build a few roman empires again. Looks like Ceasar IV missed a good chance. If they had upgraded the gameplay and concentrated less on bothersome graphics that slow the computer down it would have been a great and worthy follow up of Ceasar III. Alas, that was not to be.
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