CivCitys: Rome

[GeneralMatt]

FireAxis and Firefly Studios are putting out 'CivCities: Rome".

I think this is going to be great, as it mixes my two Favorite series (Civ and the Stronghold Series by FireFly).

Just wondering if anyone else knows anything about this?

Some links

http://www.fireflyworlds.com/ccr_index.php

http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=190498

http://pc.ign.com/articles/696/696557p1.html

 

[Maniacal]

YES! I hope this is good, Stronghold was great. I wish I had remembered to bring it over here to my dad's during spring break. I was a bit disapointed with Crusader, I havn't checked up on the debugging process of Stronghold 2 though.

But anyways, this should be good!

 

[Thunderfall]

Caesar IV is in development too and is coming out this Fall.

http://www.caesariv.com/us/

Not sure if CivCity can beat that game...

 

[puglover]

Caesar IV is in development too and is coming out this Fall.

http://www.caesariv.com/us/

Not sure if CivCity can beat that game...

I have fond memories of playing the second one when I was little. Cool find, TF.

 

[Maniacal]

I played Ceaser 3, borrowed it from a friend. It was better than Pharoh and the greek ones, those were hard. I liked C3 the best out of the 4. Also, their are soo many games with the Romans in them.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Actualy i liked Pharaoh and Zeus a LOT more then Caesar. Pharaoh for the wonder-building and Zeus for the gods, heroes, monsters. I didn't play Emperor though... it might be good as well ...

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Caesar III I played the most, though I did get into C2 as well. Good to hear there's a sequel in the works.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I have Caesar 3, along with Pharaoh with Cleopatra, Zeus and Emperor.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I have Caesar 3, along with Pharaoh with Cleopatra, Zeus and Emperor.

Is Emperor as good as Cleopatra & Zeus ? Or is it worse ?

 

[GeneralMatt]

Hey PrinceScamp, I am sending you a pm....

I personaly think this will be great, and Can't wait... It is using the Same Graphics engine as Stronghold 2 and another game coming out Stronghold Legends.

 

[Grohan]

This game sounds really cool, especially after reading this factsheet: http://www.xgpgaming.com/news/news.php?id=2821

But still Caesar IV sounds more interesting because I have played previous CBs by Impressions and now same guys are making CIV (Caesar IV not Civ ). And I haven't played Stronghold games by Firefly so I don't know how talented they are.

 

[GeneralMatt]

Here is a quote from Sid Meier That a friend on a site for the Stronghold games found

CivCity Rome got curiously little attention this evening, for such a strange development. The game is a co-production between Stronghold series developer Firefly Studios and Firaxis. In a sense, CivCity is to Civilization as The Sims is to Sim City: a familiar series, run through a microscope.

Although the focus is substantially smaller, the presentation is straight out of Civilization. CivCity will incorporate many of the now-familiar Civilization features, such as scientific research, the building of wonders, and the management of culture and public happiness; the difference here is that the player can micromanage these elements to a degree not possible before. The goal is much the same as in Civilization – building up a society from barbarians with bone clubs to a grand, semi-enlightened empire – except on a much more focused, more personal scale.

 

[Maniacal]

Oh, maybe i won't get this game, I hate micromanagement most of the time, I like it when the game has good ai that can do it for you but you can still mess with it if you want.

Also, with Zeus, the cheats I found didn't work, except for the money cheat, and the voives didn't fit. It was very hard too or something like that. Pharoh was ok.

 

[diablodelmar]

*sigh* too many good games coming out, so little time to play them...

 

[vinstafresh]

Caesar IV is in development too and is coming out this Fall.

http://www.caesariv.com/us/

Not sure if CivCity can beat that game...

I personally think it can. Children of the Nile, the first game by Tilted Mill was extremely boring. Very complex core game concepts and little to no advanced game concepts (like cottages, religion, upgrades, use of siege units, etc in Civ4). If Caesar 4 will be like Children of the Nile, Civcity will have a lot going for it, since the tech tree supports a more gradual learning curve and thus attract a lot more people or stimulate people to keep trying.

 

[Inqvisitor]

Wow, citybuilders in ancient Rome seem to be making themselves quite a hot genre in their own right. Besides CivCity: Rome and Caesar IV, there is also a game called "Heart of Empire: Rome" to be released this year also to compete.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/heartofempire.asp


Should be an interesting year for the genre. Hopefully Caesar IV won't borrow too much from Children of the Nile.

CivCity: Rome has been described on more than one occasion of being a hybrid though with Civilization-style features in play. I wonder just how much turn-based mechanics like research could be implemented in such a game.

 

[conquer_dude]

Hm. This game looks very interesting I want it.

 

[GeneralMatt]

Incvisitor, this is how tech might work...

You ever played zoo tycoon? You could research stuff, but this is how.

You designate a amount to give a month, and that determines how much research is put into it, a la the speed it is researched. Like in Civ, just every month it is taken, not every 'turn'.