Caesar IV Announced for 2006

[Harry Tuttle]

Another addition to the strategy game city building genre made famous by Caesar 3 and Pharoah. Vivendi will be publishing it and Tilted Mill will be developing.

I happened to enjoy Caesar 3 and Pharoah immensely so I hope that the latest installment will continue to impress.

http://www.caesariv.com/

[Adagio]

Old news, there's an thread about this already (a couple of months ago)

But I'm sure I'll keep an eye on it, hoping it'll be good... I'm not a big fan of Caesar 3 though, I guess I just never really got into it...

[Jon Miller]

I liked Caesar (the first one) best

jM

[Traianvs]

I liked caesar II enormously

the battles were some sort of a uberprimitive version of rome total war

the cities on the other hand looked superb

[child of Thor]

I'm just wondering if its going to have a stronger influence from the Children of The Nile game? or if it will be more like the older Caesar games?
Still just in case i picked up Pharaoh+Cleopatra on budget for £5 the other day - i own Pharaoh already but have not been able ot pick up the Cleopatra expansion game before. This way i'll know i'll be happy with some city building.
CeasarIII was an ok game, but Pharaoh just looked more interesting/exotic to me, so it got overlooked in favour of the later.

[Harry Tuttle]

Pharoah was a fun game and was more of a better Caesar III, but with a different theme. I liked it, but the idea of building tombs didn't appeal to me like Caesar did.

One problem with the Caesar 3 AI was in combat. The spawn points were few and you could eventually discern exactly where they were. Hence you could build fortifications and chew up anything that was thrown at you.

[lord of the mark]

I enjoyed caesar 3, but as you got to the harder cities it was pretty demanding of particularly shaped blocks, which got kinda frustrating. So i never finished it. I might go back and play it again, or get Pharoah.

[child of Thor]

For a 2D game Pharoah looked wonderfull, maybe a little more polished than Caesar3, but still both were great games. They were complicated enough city builders for me, SimCity were also great games but i found them not as intuitive as the Caesar type games.
Still glad Tilted Mill are carrying on with the series and as Harry Tuttle mentions, i hope they sort out the combat better than they have so far(not neccesarily make it more a feature of the game - just come up with something more satisfying).

In fact i'm glad Tilted Mill are still making games for PC

[Carolus Rex]

I have Caesar II, Caesar III and Pharao.

I like Caesar III and Pharao a lot! Never really played Caesar II... The reason? Caesar III! I dug in on that first and found no reason to go backwards in the series... Considering Civ II and Civ III that may have been a major mistake?!

I'm definitely going to lay my hands on Caesar IV...

Edit: Unless the reviews, here and elsewhere, tell me otherwise...

Carolus