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Wandering mythical heroes can be enticed into your city to spread prosperity and aid with its defence should you offer them enough gifts. And you even have to keep an eye on the Chinese Zodiac to see when you are due a year of good fortune.

All the buildings are nicely drawn, and the animations are full of character. Try trading, for example. You could buy in the wheat that is not sustainable in the harsh desert clime of your own town, or import the expensive jade that your artisans need to craft into trinkets to satisfy the elaborate tastes of your more affluent residents.

Your military options are limited, and the combat system is pretty facile. The saving grace is that military matters are only a sideshow here, and the economic and town-planning strategies at the heart of the game more than make up for the lack of military tactics. With seven historical campaigns containing almost 50 missions, Emperor boasts more longevity than the Great Wall itself. And that's not mentioning the skirmish mode and the all-new multiplayer mode allowing up to eight players to attempt to out-build each other.

Next up is Emperor, and it has a distinctly oriental flavour, taking place in China between BC and AD, just before the invasion of Ghengis Khan. So why the continental shift? Also it seemed like a good move to change the setting out of the Mediterranean, somewhere a little more exotic, new and interesting for a lot of gamers.

The most fundamental undertaking in every mission is to keep up the city. This includes keeping the general population all around took care of, sound, and protected from dangers. On the off chance that food and fundamental merchandise and ventures are given in plenitude, the city will at last improve.

Past this, the player must oversee exchange and assessments to finance further turn of events and extension. Meanwhile, the player may choose for make contributions to the familial saints. Mainly, contributions are made to assuage the saints and keep them from losing control and causing debacles upon the city.

Your citizens also demand certain things like ceramics, access to religion, entertainment, and hygiene. The other primary strategic aspect of the game comes in the form of the game's walkers. Certain buildings produce characters that supply buildings that they walk past by with a good or service. This makes the planning of your roads extremely important. There are too many relationships between all the different aspects of the game to go into detail about all of them here but suffice to say that the level of balanced gameplay that is reached is really a credit to the designers.

After playing through a few of the tutorials and finding them a little tedious, I jumped back into the open play option, and started a new city. Playing in the first of the three selectable ages Bronze, Iron, and Steel , I was hoping that I would be able to advance my way through the ages.

I quickly began setting up my industry, commerce, agriculture, residential areas, and contacting trading partners. When my city was totally set up and booming, I found that I could not make my houses evolve anymore because some of the required demands of my citizens could not be met in the Bronze era. After consulting the manual, I saw that I was stuck in this age forever. With a sad sigh I began to build a new city in the modern ish Steel Age. With more buildings available, I spent a lot of time creating a glorious city.

The only thing my city needed now was a monument as a testament to is glory. Alas, as I soon discovered, there is no way to build a monument in open play, and once again, my dreams for total perfection were dashed.

At your bidding, legions of workers will toil to erect walls strong enough to keep the barbarians at bay. Under your banner, armies will march forth to do battle with the enemy. Trade and commerce will flourish and an army of tax collectors will collect the taxes that are due. Schools and clinics, palaces and gardens will embellish the city you have built and proclaim your benevolence to the world.