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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!

Beautiful game, but you may have to upgrade your machine

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 29 / 29
Date: March 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For me, there's nothing wrong with the game; it installed without a problem; the graphics are glorious and the play is fascinating.

Unfortunately, they did set the system requirements on the box lower than they should have. You need a better machine than they say you do to use all the features. I can get by with a solid playable version by turning off a couple of things, but the game is really, really good. The last game Tilted Mill did, 'Children of the Nile,' frankly had too much make-work in it that did not really apply to the projects you were completing. The game-play on this one is excellent; it's so excellent, in fact, that I'm seriously considering buying a bigger and better video card so I can use more of what's available.

I know that there is a temptation for manufacturers to put requirements on the box that will sell the maximum number of games, but I wish they would warn you that these requirements are not the optimum configuration; it would be even nicer if they would say what the optimum configuration is, so that there is no possibility of a nasty surprise.

It is a genuinely good game, though, and a work of art. If you have bought it and have been unable to play it properly, I would advise you to hang on to it; in the normal course of things, it'll probably play perfectly on your next computer, and it'll be worth the wait.

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.

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.

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!:)

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great if you have the right computer for it. I have an XP, so all I had to do to get this game to work smoothly was adjust the graphics a little. If you are looking for a world builder game, than I recomend that you look into this.

Gameplay: 9\10

Graphics: 9\10

Sound: 8\10

Ease of Play: 8\10

Pretty Good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a fan of building historical civilizations and this one is my favorite. The other one is Children of the Nile.
The graphics are very nice and the interface isn't bad as well. The tutorials are very informative as well as the manual. The scenarios are nicely detailed and get harder as you go through them. I like the zooming levels and the fact that you can rotate the camera 360 degrees. The path finding of your citizens is surprisingly good and watching them go about their daily lives is a pretty good expierence. I've had this game since it was released and it's never crashed on me. It's a nice historical city builder.

Better than what other people are saying.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off let me say that if you are interested in this game keep in mind that the majority of reviews on this page are giving it poor reviews based on the game not being able to run properly on their outdated systems, with a newer system this game is fantastic and quickly and easily surpasses Caesar III!

This is not simply Caesar III with better graphics which is what many people seem to have been expecting. Gameplay wise it is a lot like Caesar III but it is more involved and requires the player to plan ahead, more so than Caesar III ever did. The game plays and looks beautiful. 5 stars all the way!!!

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