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If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 40
Date: September 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played this game for a few days now, and I find it to be clumsy and difficult to work with. I really liked Caesar III, as I felt I could really get a strategic sense of what I was doing in a mission. This game feels just too big to get anything done. Certainly it could be said that the graphic improvements are legion, but does it improve the play of the game? For me no, it makes it worse.

I would download the demo and try it for yourself before buying this game!

New era in city-building games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 25
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Tilted Mill has set a new standard for the city-building genre that others will have to follow. I've played the demo scenario many times and from the ease of use to the mind-blowing graphics and animation I feel they have a winner. Never before has the transportation to "life-in-your-city" been as enjoyable. Tons of industries to control, differing levels of citizens to keep happy, Caesar to keep happy, and wads of "beautification elements" provide for hours and hours of escape and relaxation from the daily grind. This one is a winner.

Get Ready ~ Caesar IV is Coming !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 25
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Shawn Soszka can't have played a game that has not gone Gold yet.

The Historically Early Caesar IV Demo (released 5 weeks before the scheduled full game release) is an unpolished & unoptimized Public Beta.

People familiar with the Classic Push System of C3, Pharaoh, Zeus & Emperor will have a bit of adjustment to the Tilted Mill Pull System. Caesar IV will have an entire Kingdom Campaign which is the tutorial, Peaceful & Military Campaigns. In addition, Free Play & Historical Scenarios, an Editor and an Online competition component.

Besides the great gamplay of the gorgeous Demo with much of the full game missing or purposely turned off, the final Caesar IV's Military will definitely Rock your World!

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 21
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing the demo now for a few weeks (the full game isn't out till the 26th of Sept.) and I love it!!
If this is just the demo and I'm loving it this much, I can't wait to get the real game..have preordered it, with the guide and the 26th can't come around soon enough.
It's the future of City Building games, and I love where we're going!

Game of the year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 24
Date: September 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After playing the demo so many times, this game can only get better when the full version is released and shipped throughout the world. The possibilities of the new military system, the naval battles promised and the completely revamped economic model make this a game that is a must have for any city building addict and even the casual gamer.

The system requirements are very heavy to make full use of all the spectacular graphical features the game has to offer, but it's worth splashing out to see what this game trully has to offer. City building has finally come of age with Caesar 4.

Caesar IV...the Decline of the Empire

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 26
Date: September 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having been a huge fan of the Caesar franchise, I was dying to see what new features the newest offering, Caesar IV, had in store. Unfortunately, all I found was an incredibly clunky UI that did not allow for any semblance of gameplay whatsoever. Navigating the screen is incredibly frustrating as the UI seems to be 14 steps behind where the mouse is. For example, place the cursor on the map edge and nothing happens for about 45 seconds, then the point of view jerks radically to some unknown place. Hovering over icons do produce a tip, but clicking on them doesn't seem to have any effect. With all of this, it is impossible to zero on any map point and forget about placing objects where you want them.

With a computer that more than exceeds the recommended requirements of the game, I am very much suprised that a game this unmanageable exists.

I guess it's back to Caesar III for me!

Caesar 4 is NOT Zeus :(

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: September 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I hope I am not the only one who thinks this but in my opinion the best game of this genre was Zeus and Poseidon. I like Caesar 4 a lot but it lacks the fun and the pun of the aforementioned games. Zeus had jokes and one could slowly build the city from one campaign to the other. Also, one could click on the characters and hear great dialogues. All that is missing.
I do not know but games like Zeus and Age of Mythology are best games ever. The idea and the concept is so vibrant that it is just spectacular. Sometimes more than Caesar.

Rome falls to the 3D barbarians

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: September 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having had hours of fun playing the previous incarnations of Caesar and also Pharaoh and Zeus, I was really anticipating this. Unfortunately, as with Age of Empires III it's a case of poorer gameplay for the sake of not very impressive 3D graphics - and my PC is relatively high spec. Sad to say this is one Caesar too far and I'll stick to the (in my opinion) better graphics and gameplay of the previous version.

Wonderful!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game! Its one of the best I've ever played-and I have them all. It keeps you glued to your seat and keeps me coming back for more!:)

CEASAR IV IS OUT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: October 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I never played Ceasar III so I dont have anything to compare this game to except all the reviews I've read. Not sure why no one has rated it yet since I just got a copy at my local Babbage's. So, this is what I think so far. It's GREAT! Although my computer is just barely above the minimum requirements of a Pentium 4 1.6 Ghz computer with 500mb Ram recommended, the game still plays pretty good although I can't turn on all the stuff or it goes to slow - duh. Otherwise, it's like Simcity 4 and Stronghold and the graphics are excellent including the water reflections. I've just started to get the hang of building my city and there's A LOT to pay attention to. Basically to start off you put down your plebs houses and a well and then some farms and then it goes really fast and all this stuff starts happening and you have to add equites houses and gardens and a fire station and an engineers guild. You can zoom in really close although using the right mouse button makes me sort of dizzy because it spins really fast at times. Then there are day and night sequences and then it rains too. I must admit I was ReALLY excited when my first Pleb house evolved into a medium sized house. Very neat to see all the while paying attention to your approval rating by making sure everyone has food, water and then the luxuries which you have to build sheep farms, grape farms, olive oil farms and other industries to create these and then the game gets really challenging.

Overall, it's much more involved than Simcity4 and more exciting to watch develop. It was awesome getting the message "Plebs are flocking to your city!" and it is just as neat watching the little plebs build furniture and make pottery and then all the supplies build up in the warehouse. When you build a bathhouse you can see the little people floating in the water. However there is one man with white balls that come out of his mouth and I'm not sure what that is - lol.

The only time my computer messed up was when it started raining and I'm not sure why that is. The game also installs Microsoft Net Framework 2.0 and some other new stuff to make it run.

I think this game will really take off and I haven't even gotten to the point of building armys or fortifications or any of the arenas and things. Also it was really neat to build aqueducts and watch the water flow through the pipes. I hope this review helps everyone.

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