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About Zeus - Master of Olympus 宙斯:众神之王, Updated 9-20-2000
Let's get something straight right now: I have never played a city builder in my life (well except for loading SimCity a few times solely to unleash natural disasters on thriving cities bwahahahaha!!!). After watching countless empires of mine rise and fall, I know I willnever even sit on a city planning board. My hat's off to the boys and girls who keep our civilization running because, frankly, I'd be cutting off heads about 30 minutes into my tenure.
For those of you not familiar with the genre, let's take a quick peek at the world of Zeus and see if we can't explain it a bit better. In Zeus you are given command of a piece of land and instructed to build a mighty city on it. Sometimes you'll have normal goals (raise a certain amount of money or have a certain population) and other times the stakes may be a bit higher (defend your city from monsters and the wrath of gods). All that and you are also being pestered by your city's inhabitants. "We want clean water!"
"We want food and shelter!"
"Stop the monsters that are killing us!"
Buncha babies.
I tell ya...for a guy with no particular political leanings, I was feeling prettyRepublican.
But Zeus takes city builders to the next level. Not only will you be concerned with building the city, but what happens to it after it is built is just as important. The scenarios areconnected in arcing storylines and the user will also be able to colonize new settlements away fromthe parent city.
The scenarios involved in the beta include The Pelopennesian War and The Labors of Hercules.
The instruction manual is presently just shy of being 200 pages long. Thats's almost200 pages more than I care to read. Not to fear, however. The learning curve isn't too steep, butmastering this game could take a while and I wish you the best of luck.
Now if it only had a Deathmatch mode...
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