CivCity: Rome

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 13 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

1
Average:

5
Bad:

6

Pros:

Its fun watching your city grow and your citizens move about their everyday lives; tons of buildings and research options add longevity to each game; included Map Editor lets you design your own scenarios; ostrich and giraffe fights in the coliseum are al

Cons:

Graphics look very old; hard to select buildings; some buildings are too big; unemployment hurts city happiness too much, making it harder than it needs to be to keep your citizens happy; campaign mode missions offer nothing new when compared to other gam

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Last revision on August 8, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Its fun watching your city grow and your citizens move about their everyday lives; tons of buildings and research options add longevity to each game; included Map Editor lets you design your own scenarios; ostrich and giraffe fights in the coliseum are al

Reviewers Didn't Like

Graphics look very old; hard to select buildings; some buildings are too big; unemployment hurts city happiness too much, making it harder than it needs to be to keep your citizens happy; campaign mode missions offer nothing new when compared to other gam

Expert reviews and ratings

Published August 9th 2006. Written by Thomas McDermott. CivCity: Rome heralds a big shift from the main focus of the Civilization series and switches from building a multi-city empire to a microcosm of it former self by centering in on one great city,...

By DarkZero on December 23, 2009

This game might contain that all-powerful three-letter “Civ” moniker in its title, but make no mistake: There’s almost nothing Civ-like about this game. CC Rome lacks the depth of the Civilization series of empire-building games. In...

By Maximum PC on December 07, 2006

Hail Caesar! Civ City: Rome tasks you with raising a city worthy of the great Roman Empire....

By CNET Australia on August 24, 2006

CivCity: Rome is the combined effort of Firefly Studios of Stronghold fame and Firaxis, the guys behind the Civilisation series. We’re not sure what was meant to come of this union – a city-builder with the depth of the Civ games maybe...

By Atomic MPC on August 21, 2006

There’s room for improvement in the city building simulation genre. The leap in recent years for technology has steadily become stagnant; not too many developers are focusing on innovating anymore. They’d rather follow a trend and place...

By GameZone on August 16, 2006

City builders are curiously addictive little games that cast the player in a role somewhere between a god and a civic town planner. Skirting the obvious ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ introductory gag, CivCity Rome is a direct descendant...

By V3.co.uk on August 16, 2006

I really enjoyed reviewing CivCity: Rome and thought Firaxis and 2K Games did a good job with the overall city builder. It’s easy to use and understand menus and information pages make for fun gameplay and quick results when you know what to...

By Game Chronicles Magazine on August 15, 2006

For PC gamers of all stripes have wiled away countless hours with the Civilization series, constructing vast empires and waging war on a global scale. CivCity: Rome, a city building off-shoot inspired by the Civilization verse, gives weary despots a...

By GamePro on August 10, 2006

CivCity Rome could’ve been a great game. It is the culmination of a lot of minor problems that ultimately bring down this empire. All of these issues, however, are easily fixable, and hopefully Firefly addresses these in either a patch or the next...

By GWN on August 10, 2006

If you follow the gossip columns or regularly have the misfortune to discover a copy of Heat lurking inconspicuously around the house, you may be aware of the concept of combined celebrity. For example, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are both...

By Trusted Reviews on August 01, 2006

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