Posted December 24, 2012
Rome can be built in a day.
You start with a plot of land and a few peasants at your disposal. All stories start like that. Well, all the good ones. Well, all the good ones that we're writing about at the moment. Grow, collect, sell, trade, buy, build, expand. It's up to you how fast your city will grow. How powerful a lord you'll become. Which gods you choose to please or anger. Build roads, trade with foreign lands, fight wars or declare peace, use diplomacy and money to earn allies. An empire as powerful as yours cannot fall. Wrong! In a second, your city's turned to dust, your powerful kingdom's just a faded memory, your glory is no more. Start again, but this time wiser. Today only, six fantastic games are available together 75% off in our [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/city_builder_s_special]City Builder's Special bundle.
You cannot get any better in terms of PC city building: all of the experience in making fantastic construction and management games of Impressions Games (Caesar and Zeus series), and all of the publishing expertise of legendary Sierra Entertainment. Zeus (and the expansion Poseidon) is a city building game where you must manage all aspects of an ancient greek city, starting with a small village, and finishing with huge polis that is visited by gods, goddesses, and Greek champions. Pharaoh + Cleopatra offers not only gorgeous 2D isometric graphics (and hieroglyphic buttons!) with flawless game design, but is an “Egyptology for Dummies” text-book as well: the richly detailed world is oddly educational about Egyptian life; it is dependent on the great Nile and its flows, the wild animals, the great heights and the tragic lows. In Caesar 3 you will have to cater to the individual needs of both the richest patricians and the lowest plebs. Building roads, making sure there is enough food, water, jobs and entertainment, providing security through forming and commanding Legions...
But that's not all! If factual city-building isn't enough to scratch that gaming itch, you can also look into building up fantasy cities. Lead a faction of one of many different religions in a high fantasy setting inspired loosely by your favorite fantasy novels of the 70s and 80s in Lords of Magic. In case high fantasy isn't your thing, we have also a loosley historical series of city-builders for you, set in a midieval world that's similar to our own with the fantastic Lords of the Realm Royal Edition (which includes LoTR I and II!), and Lords of the Realm 3 for only $1.49 each in the bundle, today only on GOG.com. That's 75% off for the whole bundle for a total price of $10.94 today. Be sure to make the egomaniac's purchase by Monday, December 24 at 14:59 GMT, or you'll miss out!
You start with a plot of land and a few peasants at your disposal. All stories start like that. Well, all the good ones. Well, all the good ones that we're writing about at the moment. Grow, collect, sell, trade, buy, build, expand. It's up to you how fast your city will grow. How powerful a lord you'll become. Which gods you choose to please or anger. Build roads, trade with foreign lands, fight wars or declare peace, use diplomacy and money to earn allies. An empire as powerful as yours cannot fall. Wrong! In a second, your city's turned to dust, your powerful kingdom's just a faded memory, your glory is no more. Start again, but this time wiser. Today only, six fantastic games are available together 75% off in our [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/city_builder_s_special]City Builder's Special bundle.
You cannot get any better in terms of PC city building: all of the experience in making fantastic construction and management games of Impressions Games (Caesar and Zeus series), and all of the publishing expertise of legendary Sierra Entertainment. Zeus (and the expansion Poseidon) is a city building game where you must manage all aspects of an ancient greek city, starting with a small village, and finishing with huge polis that is visited by gods, goddesses, and Greek champions. Pharaoh + Cleopatra offers not only gorgeous 2D isometric graphics (and hieroglyphic buttons!) with flawless game design, but is an “Egyptology for Dummies” text-book as well: the richly detailed world is oddly educational about Egyptian life; it is dependent on the great Nile and its flows, the wild animals, the great heights and the tragic lows. In Caesar 3 you will have to cater to the individual needs of both the richest patricians and the lowest plebs. Building roads, making sure there is enough food, water, jobs and entertainment, providing security through forming and commanding Legions...
But that's not all! If factual city-building isn't enough to scratch that gaming itch, you can also look into building up fantasy cities. Lead a faction of one of many different religions in a high fantasy setting inspired loosely by your favorite fantasy novels of the 70s and 80s in Lords of Magic. In case high fantasy isn't your thing, we have also a loosley historical series of city-builders for you, set in a midieval world that's similar to our own with the fantastic Lords of the Realm Royal Edition (which includes LoTR I and II!), and Lords of the Realm 3 for only $1.49 each in the bundle, today only on GOG.com. That's 75% off for the whole bundle for a total price of $10.94 today. Be sure to make the egomaniac's purchase by Monday, December 24 at 14:59 GMT, or you'll miss out!
