CivCity $9.90, Railroads $24.90

[Thunderfall]

GoGamer.com is selling CivCity for just $9.90 in its 48 Hour Madness special. This is $26 less than Amazon.com's price!

Sid Meier's Railroads! is also one of the specials and the price is $24.90, $5 less than Amazon's price.

Getting both CivCity and Railroads! for just $34.80 is a very good deal! At the time of writing, both offers will expire in about 124 hours.

 

[Thorn]

Is CivCity any good? I'm assuming not since there's no CivCityFanatics websites around and no CivCity forum here.
I have Railroads!. It's okay, but not really addictive.

 

[QcFrogMan]

sigh, screw GoGamer and their no shipping to Canada policy.

No clue if CivCity is any good, but for $10 I would probably have given it a try it...

FM

 

[Thunderfall]

Is CivCity any good? I'm assuming not since there's no CivCityFanatics websites around and no CivCity forum here.
I have Railroads!. It's okay, but not really addictive.

Well, on GameRankings, CivCity's average score is 68%. Another city building game which was released a few months later, Caesar IV, has 75% average score. City building games usually don't get high ratings.

 

[Powerslave]

Well, on GameRankings, CivCity's average score is 68%. Another city building game which was released a few months later, Caesar IV, has 75% average score. City building games usually don't get high ratings.

Except for SimCity, you mean?

I've heard that CivCity: Rome is pretty average, but I'll probably try it for $10. If it's really that boring, I can recoup my losses on eBay.

Personally, I found Pirates! to not be that great -- it's like a bundle of four or five Flash games. Still, the graphics are better than your average Flash game. I'd give it more of a 5/10 or 6/10, certainly nowhere near the 9/10 that many gaming sites overzealously awarded it.

It's too bad that most game reviewers start their reviews at 7/10, then add points from there, based on advertising and graphics.

I miss the days of an ad-free internet, but then there were no girls online, so I guess it's a trade-off, isn't it?

 

[TheDS]

Civ City is a lot like Tropico 2, what little I've played of either. Not as worth it, but probably worth $10. I've heard many a bad thing about Railroads, so I declined to touch it at all. Pirates wasn't all that good; too many things about the interface needed tweaking in the common sense direction, and difficulty goes from way too easy to way too hard in a single step.

Now that I think about it, compared to this, I'm rather shocked that Civ4 turned out so well.