This is a nice combination of Civilization and SimCity. Basically - you will be controlling a city, whether you play single missions or the campaign. There are two kinds of missions - Peacetime and Military. Peacetime missions will challenge you to build 'growth', while military missions will also require you to repel enemy attacks. I personally like Military missions more because there is more challenge. You have to be more careful. The campaign is quite interesting, I wouldn't say it's great though. Anyhow, CIvCity:Rome is an enjoyable and challenging combination of Civilization and SimCity, but it could be more polished. It almost seems as Firefly went for marketting instead of the polishing. But still - it's an interesting game and will gave me about a hundred hours of gameplay, then I got bored and went back to Civilization. So I think that 10€ is a good price for 100 hours, or more if you will like the game more than I did.

A fun fact about the Civilization franchise is that when Sid Meier set out to make the first Civilization game he first started it imagining a city building game in the vein of SimCity. 15 years after the release of Civilization Firefly Studios set out to make the game Sid Meier first imagined. The result is CivCity Rome which has been published by Firaxis, current developers of the Civilization Franchise and Sid Meier's game studio. The game has plenty of things going for it publicity-wise... The Firaxis and Civilization name for one. But it fails in the gameplay department to provide the "Just one more turn"-feeling of Civilization. And it fails to come even close to city building games like SimCity 4 and Caesar 4. As it stands it seems more than anything like an attempt to cash in on the Civilization franchise. The fact that the game is developed by the people behind such underwhelming games as Stronghold and Space Colony. They may not truely suck but they surely don't live up to what you'd expect from a developer of a Civilization game. As it stands no game with the Civilization name but without Sid Meier involved in development has been worthy of the name. And that's true no matter if you're talking about Civilization II: Test Of Time, Civilization: Call To Power or CivCity: Rome.

A wonderful and emmersive game for those fond of Simulator of Strategy games. With a great campaign and stand alone missions this game offers a great variety for the player.

The theme of Roman cities as a refreshing take on strategy games. Although it's a shame that you don't get to create Rome. Then again, I haven't yet fully completed the game so this may be wrong.

The game also comes with a map and mission editor which will provide those who love it with a hours more extra fun.

I'd say the previous reviews have it right: a nicely executed city-building/RTS hybrid. I found it a great deal of fun to play, and a worthwhile purchase overall. I haven't played the other games that people are comparing it to, like Caesar or Children of the Nile, so I can't comment on how it compares to them, but just on its own, it's a well polished game, and I expect people who enjoy city-building will have as much fun with it as I did.

It is not a bad game. But comparable games such as caesar (specially the latest one) have an edge over this one. I found it a bit poor in terms of micromanagement. Still, very beautifull graphics and it runs smoothly.

CivCity Rome is just a new city-builder which, despite the title, adds little of the civilization game to the old concept. Having played old classics like Pharaoh, Zeus or Caesar III, I still recommend those for their simple interface and old-time feel. Sure the technology and wonders concept are interesting, but given the very short campaign, you will soon find free-play redundant.

For city-builders of the kind I more so recommend Caesar IV, which follows the series' formula and offers a graphical update similar to this one - a good upgrade from the old Impression Games.

I really loved the demo version I played some years ago.

And note: I am not a fan of strategic game at all.

Nonetheless, now, thanks to GG I finally bought a copy of CCR and I'm playing it right now.

I found it a very pleasant game 3 years ago but I still find enojoyable right now in 2010.

It's a shame the serie didn't go any further.

It was planned to be a "brand".

And Rome was planned the be just the first one in the Civ City serie.

But I've read it didn't sell enough copies so they decided to stop any further development in the brand.

It's a pity.

The game shows great potential, very nice graphics and a lot of ours of fun.

Wouldn't have been nice a CivCity Venice or a CivCity Athens? ;)

A nice city-building game, much like the old Rome-city-builders. But just like the old games you at some point get a little bit tired of doing the same thing over and over. The development of the missions is very nice, and especially the interaction between insulae and shops is very entertaining. In this game you get the chance to build pretty nice looking cities, but in the end I would like some more differences in the buildings, so that the residence doesn't looks exactly like the rest at the same level. More building options would also have been preferable as the different options are quite quickly depleted. Despite of this, all in all an enjoyable little game.

For the price its not a bad buy. It reminds me of the old ceasar games back a few years ago. The campaign is a bit short for a computer game, but the free play mode is pretty good if you dont mind setting your own goals with no real objective other then to keep making your city bigger and bigger.

Another twist to the Simcity concept. In this case the point of the game is to develop and manage a Roman town, until you reach the possibilities to make it a city with its own colisseum and circus maximus. The game has a good point as it can follow the development of a Roman noble family, which givews the game a bit of depht. The visuals are not bad, although they seem a bit aged and the campaign is not really interesting. Howwever, the game is still a good city simulator, thus, it is recommendable to those who are fans of simcity and citylife games.

If you've played games in the Caesar series, then you know what you're in for with CivCity. It is essentially Children of the Nile (which was a Caesar game) plus some welcome changes. No longer will people living within ten paces of a well complain that they're thirsty! Instead of waiting for a delivery from the guy at the well, the householder goes to the well himself. Especially large households that need a lot of goods will have inhabitants who don't produce any output, they exist purely to shop. (Must... refrain... from... talking... about... ex-wife....) Army management and battles are improved from 'shockingly awful' to 'normally OK', which is... normally OK. All in all, a worthy successor to Ceasar, but not a revolution.

CivCity: Rome is a mix of Simcity 4 and an RTS. By that I mean you need to gather certain resources in order for your population to 'increase' in status and for more options to become unlocked. In free-play you can build every building off the start, but the challenge is making your population happy while balancing there needs. Although the single-player campaign is relatively short the free-play mode can be a bit addicting and fun for those who enjoyed Simcity 4. For $20.00 its a good distraction until Simcity 5 and it is a lot cheaper then subbing to City XL. If your looking for a city builder with a bit of a historical twist then this game may just be for you.