City Building Series
| City Building series | |
|---|---|
| Genres | city-builder |
| Developers | Impressions Games, BreakAway Games, Tilted Mill Entertainment, Sierra Entertainment |
| Publishers | Sierra Entertainment |
| Platforms | various |
| Year of inception | 1992 |
| First release |
Caesar 1992 |
The City Building series is the collective name of a series of historical city-building games for personal computers developed by Impressions Games, BreakAway Games, Tilted Mill Entertainment (following Impressions' demise), and published by Sierra Entertainment. The series began in 1992 with Caesar, set in the Roman Empire, and so far consists of twelve games, including expansion packs.
The series can be loosely described as "SimCity in past or imaginary civilizations with military and economic micromanagement". In the City Building Series the player is put in charge of providing goods and services to the populace of their town, ensuring crime is low, and reducing the risk of disease, fire and building collapse. The player must also strike a balance between imports, exports and taxes to keep their town financially strong. The player is also responsible for defending their town against invasion by building a military.
The series covers four ancient civilizations: Roman, Egyptian, Greek and Chinese. Titles released up until 2004 used the same isometric view game engine, although progressively tweaked and modified according to the theme of the game. Subsequent titles use three-dimensional graphics engines.
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