CivCity: Rome (PC Games, 2006)

The CivCity series have always been interesting to say the least. They offered a unique city building game without focusing on the drudgeries of the wide scale affairs of other games.

However, despite focusing all of their attention this time with CivCity: Rome, the game fails to offer anything new at all. The interface is horrendous, quite possibly one of the worst I have ever seen in any RTS game. To top it off, the game doesn’t seem to ever work correctly. For instance, how come it is almost near impossible to gain enough food for your citizens to stay alive, yet you NEED to get more citizens in order to stop your population rating from dropping.

These types of frustrating issues, couple with the fact that sometimes you are not allowed to trade with neighboring territories (for what reason I do not know), and a half-baked graphics department, Civ:City Rome is a huge disappointment in a series that has always been above average.