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Summary: Excellent addition to the city building series
Review: I finally got my hands on a copy of Zeus, and it surely doesn't disappoint. First off I noticed that this game plays very similar to Pharaoh. The animations of the characters that walk around have been slightly improved, but the biggest leap forward is the animations of the gods who walk around your city. Those are some of the best looking sprites I have EVER seen in any game, great job on those. Another aspect of the game which I love is all the little soundbites in the game. I spent hours clicking on everything I could to hear what they have to say, most of the time its really funny. Not only that you hear the strangest comments during the game, one that stands out is I always seem to hear someone saying, "Where's my spear, how can I be a spear carrier without my spear". Just little things like that make the game exciting. As for the monument building side of this game, it does take a lot less time than building a pyramid did in Pharaoh, but don't get me wrong, we are still talking hours in some cases, not that I mind. Some of the original new parts of this game is that you can blackmail and attack other city states if you wish. Everytime I have tried thus far I usually come out on the losing end mainly cause of to small a force. The campaign structure part of the game is a little different than past city builders in that you have these smaller Adventures which don't take nearly as long. Some are a little to easy, but I still think this is a great idea for future player created adventures. What can I say, I just love this game, it expands on all other city builders, looks great, sounds great, and any game that keeps me up till 3am four consecutive nights has my vote for a great game!
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Summary: Don't Kill My City Cerberus.....
Review: Ever since me and one of my friends started playing Pharaoh, we got hooked on the Impresions Games. I bought the Great Empire Seris with Pharaoh, Cleopatra, and Caeser III. And of course that wonderful bonus CD! I turned the bonus disk and saw a new game...Zeus. I downloaded it and played. I never had enough time to finish the demo. I played and played until I won! THat was only a small part of a level, called an adventure in the Zeus game. It was so fun. I went to the wed site and nearly screamed. The expansion, Posidon was already going to be out in a month.
At christmas, my friend who (thank you!) introduced me to the city building games got Zeus. We played together, her older sister trying to take over the computer to add in cheats, stopping playing to look at the cool graphics, laughing at what some people said. Pizza was ordered that night and we brought the food to the computer, the adults didn't mind. Its so cool. You can conquer people who tick you off, or raid their cities to tick them off. You battle monsters from famous greek myths. They are huge, they glow, some have powers (like the Kraken) and they like to destroy your city! Get hero's like my personal fav., Oddyseus. Build huge cities without going bankrupt, trade with other cities, scream when the angry gods come, laugh at the things people say, like Aphrodite saying "worship me!" Its cool. Best of all, you can chose your adventure, instead of doing whatever comes next, the episodes come in an order though.
Its so fun, even I can't believe it. Compared to all my other games, Zeus is the best.
Loser other games!
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Summary: Zeus Master of Olympus: The Greatest Computer Game Ever!
Review: This Zeus game is awesome! I bought it at Staples for ten bucks and I am very pleased with this game. Your role in Zeus is a Greek city leader. You can trade and fight with other cities, start colonies and receive tribute, build sancturaries to The Gods, call upon heros, like Hercules, to defeat monsters, like the Hydra or Cyclops. You can even make up your own name or choose real Greek names from a Male or Female Roster. ZEUS MASTER OF OLYMPUS IS THE GREATEST COMPUTER GAME EVER!!!
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Summary: Expanding The City Building Genre
Review: I am, like many other people who have written a review for this game, a fan of city-building/god games, particularly Caesar, Pharaoh, and now Zeus. Zeus is not only a whole new ball game with new gods (that wander around your city this time - sometimes wrecking havoc), new buildings, and a new feature with heros and quests and monsters. And the walker system has been greatly improved and using roadblocks and keeping them where they should be is not really an issue. But the real gem of Zeus is that you can download adventures on the internet and play them. This makes the game virtually open ended, as more and more adventures come. A particularly good site is zeus heaven (look up the addie if you want to download the adventures).
Highly recommended!
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Summary: A seriously addictive game
Review: I don't play city building games very often because I assume, as I'm standing in the software store looking at the back of the box, that they are too festidious. You are constatly juggling the minutia of balancing a budget or keeping guns vs. butter in check. And they typically seem to come with a long learning curve. The only game I truly enjoyed that might be considered from this genre is Populus II. That's one of my top 10.The only reason I even looked at Zeus is that it reminded me on Populous II in regards to conjuring up other gods, etc. Still I expected to be disappointed. Oh Man, is this game fun. And so addictive! My wife hates it! It's a pretty rich game in that you can play for hours and hours and keep learning litte nuggets that help overall. The tutorials are a must but quick and worth the time. The graphics are terrific and from what I've seen, clearly better than its predacessor Pharoah. Sound is great too although I'm not sure I'm comfortable with ancient Greeks saying things like "Whoa, Dude". But then Pharoah was critizied for adhereing too closely to history. This game has opened my eyes again to city building games.
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Summary: good, But doesnt Master Pharaoh.
Review: Granted i like this game a lot. But some interface controls and other aspects of city building dont master Pharaoh. Like when you wish to trade with a city in zeus you must build a seperate trading post for every city on the world map, which reaches a large number by the end of the game.In pHaroah all you must do is build one dock or just leave you tradable product in the storage yard Also food distrubution doest beat out pharaoh. In Zeus you must create a different store for every product, and it is hard to suply every neighberhood with all it needs. In Pharaoh There is one Food distribution center that sells everything. Another Falt of Zeus Is the difficulty. By the first hour of playing i had a flourishing city. This is fun, but it gets old after a while.Monument Building is easier in zeus, but there arnt as many monumentz s to build, so once you have built all the temples to the olympian gods, you get bored.The last reason Pharaoh masters Zeus is that there is not as much to do as ther is to in pharoah. The adventures can be easily mastered, and after that you have little to do, It lacks a campaign as good as pharoahs. I suggest you purchase pharaoh over zeus, even though both are good games. Pharoah is the greatest i think, city building game in the market as of now.
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Summary: Puts to shame other CBGs
Review: I've played a lot of CBGs, city building games, such as Caesar 2 & 3, the Simcities etc. and none even compare to Zeus. The point that made it better to me is that you don't just build the city to get people, you build it to get people to accomplish the goals. With different goals every level it makes for a very diverse, fun game. A couple other keys I found different (and better) than Sierra's previous game Caesar 3: you could never send armies to attack distant places you had to wait for them to attack you; you had no foreign relations other than trade, the foreign country interactivity is very fun in Zeus because they'll ask you for things like a hero, an army, goods, etc. and you can ask them as well; and overall Zeus is a much more lighthearted, funny game while Caesar 3 was very serious and a little boring. In the end Zeus is very fun with long replayability.
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Summary: BRILLIANT!
Review: "Zeus: Master of Olympus" is an excellent game. It's the best in Impression Game's "City Building" Series (Pharaoh, Caesar III, and Zeus). Zeus is fun and challenging, but not as complicated as Pharaoh and the Caesar games. It has a light-hearted tone to it and the episodes are easier to pass. The designers made a wise choice in relying more on Greek myth than history (though the history is accurate in most counts). The truth is is that, to the Greeks, myth was very important and every myth was written in detail, so much so that whole "Zeus" adventures could be built around one. This is an excellent game and the best of the series and probably the best game I've ever played. I reccomend this to anyone interested in Greek Mythology or ancient history, or anyone that likes strategic city-building.
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Summary: Great game with a keen sense of humor
Review: There has been a run of city-building games recently, from Caesar in Rome, to Pharoh in Egypt, to the various expansion packs. It was sort of inevitable that their attention would move on to Greece, one of our founding civiliations. Zeus follows in its predecessors footsteps, making it relatively simple to pick up on the basic idea. You plant your crops, build your industries, set up trade and shops and tax collectors. Add in some basic services - home maintenance, water, infirmaries. They've got, of course, Greek-themed things to build. The theater is a big draw, as are the gymnasiums and schools of philosophy. It's religion, though, where this game differs from the others. Instead of trying to balance your way through keeping all the gods happy, in most missions you are working towards bringing in a hero, or pleasing a certain god. And these gods are very personal! The first mission, for example, involves a hydra. You don't build up warriors to kill it - you biuld a temple to the hero Hercules, and once you make the town alluring enough, he appears and roams around, spouting heroisms. He goes and kills the Hydra for you, and all is well. The game has a series of tutorials for those who haven't played this type of sim before, but for those experienced in the others, diving into the first "beginner" mission isn't a walk in the park. Unlike some other games where the first missions boringly walk you through the same old crop maintenance, this starts you full bore into the game, with a very wide selection of buildings you can use and things to do. It gets more challenging from there. There are also various open play options, if you just want to create your own military adventure or build a city that stretches from coast to coast. In all, the game is not a huge change from its predecessors, but it's still quite fun!
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Summary: Terriffic
Review: If you are in to Greek mytholagy and you like computer games this is the game for you.You can worship gods upgrade housing and create a strong military.
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