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Good graphics and interesting adventures

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is not your normal video game. The graphics are great and the adventures are challenging. The mythology aspect of the game adds spice to what I consider to be an exceptional game.

Game of the Gods...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There are few games, that have held my interest, and have had a continued fascination, for me, than "Zeus: Master of Olympus". You can really escape - into the game, and unwind, from the dreary "grind", of your everyday reality. To tell the truth, I have only been able to play the demo. I understand, that the full version, will give me many more options, which will allow me to "fine-tune" the game, for my optimal pleasure. As a beginner, I look forward to adjusting the game, and start learning, with less stressful threat.

Gawd!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game 4 my birthday last year and just wow. The possibilities are endless. You can become an economic powerhouse, a military ruler or both.You battle monsters, build temples and try to be a good ruler. Its just so iddicting. I've had it for about a year and still havent beaten it yet. And I can't wait till I get the Posidon expansion pack in! 1 thing though, U might want to get the strategy guide by prima, it helps alot.

Zeus

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is beautiful and challenging. It is a brillant production. Sierra and Impressions Games has made this one of the best SIMS games I have played. I have bought the expansion pak called Posiden, and have to work at building in ancient times of the Gods of Greece.
Sincerely yours,
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MYTHOLOGY ENTHUSIAST LOVES THIS GAME!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have loved Greek Mythology since I was 8 years old. Loved it so much that I'm kinda a scholar of it, to a degree. So, basically anything that has anything to do with Greek Mythology I simply love.

This game is no exception. I can talk about everything I love about this game but one thing absolutely fascinated me. Say, for instance, in the first adventure, you build your city up enough where it can support a sanctuary for both Ares and Athena, the God and Goddess of war respectively. You have no military and invaders start attacking your city. If you don't get scared and bribe them off and decide to defend your city, guess what happens...the invaders have to fight the combined strength and power of both Ares and Athena.

Imagine an entire army being creamed by Ares and Athena! This is just one of the things that you can see within this game if you have gods on your side. Even better, have Zeus himself on your side and he takes out the armies by himself, even if you have no military.

To me, this is one of the best city building games of all time, right up there with Pharaoh and Civilization.

Sweet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had a friend who had this game a few years back , I found it on Amazon cheap and I had to get it. I got the game in 2 days! I still like playing it.

Good game, but BEWARE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, especially if you like city building games. The interface is easy to understand, and the scenarios range from easy to challenging. You can even play in a "sandbox" or create a scenario. However, the new version I received was not the one advertised on this page. It was a UK version of the game that won't work with expansions made for US versions (such as Posidon).
My advice is to check this out w/ the seller before ordering to make sure you truely get what you order.

So addictive!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm really an action game guy at heart with a little RPG/MMORG and adventure game mixed in. But ever since I played Caesar 3, I've been hooked on this series of games (Caesar 3, Pharoahs, and now Zeus). It's a great game to play on a long airplane ride; it's a great "thinking man's game (or woman)".

Zeus is the most refined of the series and best overall although I didn't like the cartoon-y aspect of the artwork in this game. I really loved the Rome setting and the more matter-of-fact style of artwork in Caesar 3, but that's probably more a personal preference than anything.

I think the only tiny gripe I've had with this game and it's predecessors is that the levels still get kinda repetitive after awhile. But overall, it's one of my favorite games, and really offers some intellectual stimulation and puzzle solving.

Isometric Economics Lesson - in Greece!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Zeus: MoO is not what you think it should be - it's not strictly an adventure game. It's not strictly a Greek civilization simulation. It's got elements of both of those things, and a little Sim City thrown in, but it's primarily an economics lesson.
The biggest game elements of Zeus are infrastructure and distribution. At any level of achievement, you must expand your citizens' access to goods and services if you want their lives to improve. At the same time, you need to carefully plan the building of your city to ensure that your distribution centers (called "agoras") aren't placed too far from production facilities, or citizens won't get fed.
Taxation, pay scale, employment rates, and other Econ 101 factors are a large part of the game, and this is one simulation in which it could actually make sense to "cap" your growth, just to keep it manageable!
Military adventures play a fair-sized role in the game, as do intrigues involving the gods, but none of that is absolutely central, and the play control for these tasks was clearly not a huge priority. It sure adds a lot of color and interest, though!
If you're interested in resource management, lots of humor, and a very flavorful setting, I highly recommend Zeus: Master of Olympus!

Haven't spent much time with it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I haven't made it through the game yet, although as far as I have played it, I did enjoy it. Maybe I will be able to finish it, maybe not. If I don't I still had fun playing it as long as I did. Since I DIDN'T play all the way through, though, is why I can't give it 5 stars. If it was a 5 star game, something would have made me want to keep pressing forward until I had gone all the way through.

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