Computer games aren't written in a day

[strange_complex]

Wow - could this be my ideal computer game? CivCity: Rome.

The screenshots are promising: hardly a historically-accurate rendering of Rome's topography, but, then again, if the user is getting to build their own Rome, then why shouldn't the Colosseum, Circus Maximus and Pantheon all be right next to each other? And the renditions of each are very nice (although if they're to scale, the people in the Colosseum must be about twenty feet tall!).

Good thing it doesn't come out until the summer, really, or I could kiss goodbye to the book...

Comments

[sir-didymus.livejournal.com]

Speaking of games, Rome: Total War is good fun.

Argyraspides - Forward!

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Rome: Total Realism is better.

I'm still waiting for R:TR 7.0, which uses the revised RTW:BI code to mean that your game is no longer completely Romanocentric.

All hail the great Seleucid Empire!

Re: Argyraspides - Forward!

[sir-didymus.livejournal.com]

I quite like Carthage.

Re: Argyraspides - Forward!

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Carthage suxx0r in vanilla RTW. No heavy infantry until the extremely difficult-to-get Sacred Band, no heavy cavalry, very weak missile troops apart from mercenary Balearic Slingers, and only one decent non-elephant unit.

I'll take *any* of the Diadochi States, especially Seleucia or Macedon, or indeed the extremely versatile army of Pontus, and fight you any day of the week :)