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They Will Build You An Empire ~ The Fate of a Dynasty Is In Your Hands! As Emperor, you will build housing to attract immigrants to your new city. Under your enlightened rule, a small settlement will expand to become the capital of a grand and glorious empire. From humble beginnings your city will develop into an imperial capital worthy of your greatness.
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom Accessories
 Pharaoh Gold
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Pharaoh
Pharaoh Official Expansion: Cleopatra
Pharaoh (Jewel Case)
Caesar 3
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Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom Reviews
Hours of fun. This is one of the funnest games we have ever played.
However, the distribution system is so dumb sometimes, it boggles the mind. And the two armies blithely cross pathes and you get defeated because (ha ha) you have no military. This game is an inferior version of Zeus. Fair enough, but what's stupid is when said invader is the city you are going to attack. But as a successor to Zeus, it is a step backwards. (Additionally, pronunciations of Chinese words are almost always wrong outside of the main intros). Suggestion for future games: provide different settings for accepting goods from industry and other warehouses, and for distributing to industry and other warehouses.
As a stand-alone game, Emperor would be quite commendable. Emperor does not have as rich a voice acting portfolio as Zeus and instead of humorous voice portrayals like the John Wayne cavalry and New Yorker inspectors in Zeus, you get very tedious, borderline offensive Chinese accents in English. Just awful and tedious. Like Zeus, combat has many bugs, which sometimes threaten to frustrate the player into giving up. For example, if you launch an invasion, an opponent will sometimes see this as a great opportunity to attack you. The same factors that led me to become obsessed with Zeus way back when, the fun challenges of figuring out optimal housing and distribution, etc., are in play here, so all is not lost. Although both games share the same basic principles of agriculture, housing, industry, distribution, religion, and arts, Zeus had a much lighter touch and thus was more entertaining. I can only imagine that this is because for plot reasons the programmers don't want you to win yet, but they don't want the rigged outcome to damage you too badly.
Also, the computer controlled cannons are like incredibly virtuosos with pinpoint accuracy, but your own cannons seem to be completely ineffectual. Or worse, the tendency for a defeated city to IMMEDIATELY and repeatedly rebel. Sometimes they will rebel, presumably because you are "weak," when you are returning from conquering them. Also, sometimes your invasions will fail for no reason, and the program gives you mounds of weapons.
How can you go wrong. Impression games hit this one out of the park. I have always loved this franchise of games and this version did not disappoint. Improved gameplay, story setup and graphics from Zeus.
It's sort of like SimCity meet age of empires. I would recommend it to anyone who's looking for a game to play in their spare time; it certainly kept me entertained for 2/3 of a summer.
As a Native Speaker of Chinese and as a Chinese Myself, I am confident to say. that "."(Chinese characters meaning China) means Central Kingdom not "Middle Kingdom"
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