Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (PC)

Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a city builder based on China. It includes 7 campaigns and a free play mode where some of the game's settings can be chosen. It comes with its own custom map builder where game maps or full custom campaigns can be made. There is a multiplayer mode where you can play against other people through the internet, although I've never used it so I don't know how good it is. The game involves laying out housing blocks ...
...that makes money and has an army to protect it from attack or to conqueror other cities. Houses can be "evolved" to a higher standard of living and contain more residents and so generate more money by way of taxes. To do this requires providing an additional service or commodity to the house. For example, every common house starts off as a tent. After you build a water fountain and the water carrier spawned by the fountain passes by the tent, it ...

GJRendall 25.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (PC)

Performance.. Great graphics, smooth gameplay, and fast moving should you set the speed to 100%. Diversity of gameplay: So many buildings, hundreds of them. You can also attempt to evolve your houses from tents (initially), to luxurious pallaces and dwellings. The plots and storylines throughout the game become rather repetitive, as each objective is, to build up your population, and create goods within time limits. Unlike the caesar 3 version ...
...to meet, rather population, and a certain number of the population living in certain types of houses to meet. A good game, however i found it boring after the first couple of days playing it. It becomes boring, and to be honest i would recommend buying it to anyone. 5/10 ...

reviewermarc 26.08.2005 · Read full review
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