Caesar IV | 
 enlarge | From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $10.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 2126
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.5
MPN: 72550
Model: 72550
UPC: 020626725507
EAN: 0020626725507
ASIN: B000EDPQMU
Release Date: September 9, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Create your empire with 100 unique buildings, diagonal roads and a set of decorative items | | • | Prepare for the inevitable problems that plague a city - fires, raiders, riots, plagues, food shortages & more | | • | Select any of the more than 75 unique characters in your city -- they'll tell you what they think! | | • | Consult advisors and extensive map overlays for feedback on activities and problems in the city | | • | Open trade with neighboring and distant provinces to acquire exotic materials and to sell excess local goods |
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Product Description
In Caesar, you become an aspiring provincial governor within Caesar's empire. As governor, you lay out each city, road by road, building by building, making sure your citizens have all they need to remain healthy, happy and safe from barbarian threats. Everyone wants to live a convenient distance to shops and entertainment, but nobody wants to live close to the noisy and dirty stuff! Your goal is to manage this delicate balance and grow your city from a simple village to a cosmopolitan metropolis. Do your job well, and you will rise among the political ranks of the empire -- and become Caesar!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 Good Game, demands too much graphics August 5, 2008
I have only played Caesar 3 and 4, but I think Caesar 4 is a much better improvement. There is only one major setback to this game, and thats the graphics.
I have nvidia 8500gt video card with 512 mb of memory with sli (2, 8500 cards), ati radion 5200+ (dual 2.6), and 4gb of memory and I can only play this game on medium graphics! This game has great gameplay and is very fun, but if you are considering buying it, have a powerful system to tackle the demanding graphics. Also, download the patch as soon as you can, for it fixes a lot of bugs which make the game crash. I have XP so I am not sure how it runs on vista but i'm sure its the same way. On to the good gameplay, there is a very long campaign, I play a few times a week and am still not done after 6 months. The tutorial is pretty good and you can catch on pretty quick.
The bottom line, check your computer before you buy this, and if you have a powerful enough computer buy this game it has had me enteratined for a few months now.
 No Subject July 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wouldt recommend any sierra games because they are basically the same, you always have to fight to keep you city going and the graphics are lame.
Maybe not for win vista!!! June 26, 2008
Is a good game great graphics, but a little slow to play, the cursor moves slow and takes forever to get somewhere , tehe previous caesar III was faster. maybe because I' m playing it on wind vista, who knows
 Spiffy June 12, 2008
Its fun, challenging, and if you have played the previous Casears, slightly different because its more in a 3-D mode. However, the game does take a lot of the computer's resources and runs a little slow, even on new machines. I have a state of the art computer and had to turn down the games settings.
Once You Get It To Run, It's A Blast June 6, 2008
I enjoy sim games a lot, and was a little scared off about this one due to so much news about crashes, incompatability, etc.
So, after installing it, I dialed all the settings down to the minimum resource consumption and away we went! The mouse lags, etc., are still present but are not anywhere near as bothersome.
It is a great game for systems thinking and leadership development. Along the way, you actually learn a little about Roman culture, beliefs and priorities. Even dialed down, the graphics are very watchable.
I must confess that I have not made it all the way to the end yet. I have "enjoyed the journey" a lot, though.
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