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Title: Complicating what had been simply brilliant
Review: As a fan of Caesar III I was VERY disappointed with this game. The only noticeable improvement from Caesar III was a slight tweak to the graphics. Short of that, everything else is downhill. The central flaw of this new installment is that the designers overly complicated things. Each building has a different size, each sector requires a different type of citizen and nothing can be easily monitored. To someone who enjoys planning a large city beforehand, Caesar IV is a nightmare. Example: adding throughout the map rugged terrain where nothing can be built turns the map into a very small building area, limiting what can and can't be built. Perhaps if I had not played Caesar III before I would be able to rate Caesar IV as decent, but as a follow-up, it does not live up to expectations.
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