In CivCity, your mission goals are depressingly plebeian and never particularly challenging. After all, anyone who’s watched even a scene or two from Gladiator knows Rome was a vast, complicated city. It’s difficult to escape the sense that, with a broader vision and scope, CivCity could have lived up to the grandeur of the city it’s evoking. Or, more relevantly, you do the same kinds of things you did in Firefly’s Stronghold, minus the siege and combat parts of that game.īy failing to evolve the gameplay beyond everything that’s come before, Firefly has created an experience that will feel strangely familiar.
CIVCITY ROME GUIDE SERIES
In all cases, you build an economy by throwing up farms and stores, laying down roads, and basically juggling all the things you’ve done in every other city-builder since Impressions perfected the formula with the Caesar and Pharaoh series in the late ’90s. Assuming you meet the mission goals and manage the wildly fluctuating happiness meter that gauges the insatiable needs of your citizens, you bop to other cities across the Empire. In CivCity, you start the single-player campaign mode as a lowly governor charged with building a settlement and supplying the Senate with stone. In the city-building genre, all roads seem to lead to Rome these days. Sid Meier’s name may appear in the credits, but the Civilization elements—tech trees barer than a winter forest in Britannia, dialogue-window cameos by historical superstars—are so faint, they might as well not even be here. Things aren’t nearly as bloody or dire in CivCity: Rome, a standard-issue city-builder in which Firaxis (of Civilization series fame) and Firefly (Stronghold) nominally share development and direction. Roman history is filled with instances of revolution, chaos and invasions from their aggressive neighbors.
0 kommentar(er)
