Zeus Lord of Olympus. It is a great classic game. This game was developed by Impression Games and distributed by Sierra Entertainment in 2000 (Due to the cover many of us thought it was from Sierra but it is not) I have had the pleasure of enjoying it myself, I love this type of game and its functions where I have had to try to improve my city and not be invaded by foreign city-states. Surely some will know about this wonderful game which is currently in a state of abandonment, because it does not longer generate profits for the company that created it due to the closure of the Impression Games studio that created great games of the same kind as Caesar, Pharaoh and Emperor: The Birth of China.
This game that I have enjoyed a lot because I have always had a taste for Construction and Strategy games, despite the difficulty of it because at the beginning I did not understand much about how to play, what to do, how to get resources, how not to being in generation of negative income, etc ... But let's go to what the game is about as previous installments of Impression Games Zeus Lord of Olympus, focuses on the construction and development of a city in antiquity, this time the Ancient Greece. We will have the possibility of building great Temples for heroes such as Heracles, Theseus and Achilles or Gods like Hermes, Zeus and Aphrodite to help us in the tasks, defeat monsters or improve our city due to the bonuses that these bring, an example of this For example it is Hermes who will fulfill some of the requests for resources that our allies or vassals in continental Greece need.
In this game we have several options, do the campaigns or create our city from scratch in a series of free games, the dynamic in all cases is the same: locate food sources, produce resources such as wool and copper, and start building. You could be a benevolent ruler who seeks the best for his city or someone who only seeks to achieve his economic and military goals quickly. Citizens will need homes which can evolve due to the amenities you give them such as water, food, culture, attractive areas, etc. You will need these citizens because they provide labor and the more houses evolve the more labor and we will also have to see that the buildings do not collapse or are burned due to lack of maintenance, that doctors or nurses pass by to avoid pests and that tax collectors collect Dracmas (game money), because one way or another you will need to finance all this.
Just to rule a city is too easy, so although as I said before you will have help from heroes and gods, you will have to face invading armies, invading monsters like Medusa, Minotaur and Talo, and enemy gods like Poseidon who blocked the maritime trade, among others. The management elements will be divided into population, agriculture, industry, storage and distribution, maintenance and health, administration, culture, mythology, army, decoration and general view. You will have to control the amount of things you buy from your neighboring cities that want to trade with you because you could generate an excessive expense and also you should not sell all your resources or food, even so after you get the trick to the game will be easier, I hope you enjoy the game.
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