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Zeus: Master of Olympus from Vivendi Universal
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Amazon.com Product Description Zeus: Master of Olympus is the sixth game in the award-winning Impressions City Building Series, which has sold over two million copies worldwide. Zeus: Master of Olympus, set in a mythological ancient Greece, serves up a world filled with the likes of Hercules, Athena, Ares, Medusa, the Minotaur, and many others. Players build and rule Greek city-states while summoning heroes and gods to protect their land from monsters and other Greek cities. Easy to learn, and quick to get in and out of, Zeus promises to be one of the most fun city-building games of 2000.
Customer Reviews
A great game you can enjoy for a long time Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006
I bought this game looking for something that would be fun in my spare time and became addicted!
The game has a great tutorial to teach you how to build and run your city. It is fairly easy to learn the basics of building a city but there are enough variations to keep the game intersting and to keep you learning. There are also campaigns which are very well put together, and my favorite, the ability to create your own campaigns, right down to the landscape if you choose.
I like how much you are able to control about your city and the relationships you can form with the different gods. By choosing which God you align yourself with you can create a lot of varience in the game.
This game kept my attention for a long time and I know I'll continue to enjoy it. I think it is a superbly done strategy and building game!
MYTHOLOGY ENTHUSIAST LOVES THIS GAME!!!! Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005
I have loved Greek Mythology since I was 8 years old. Loved it so much that I'm kinda a scholar of it, to a degree. So, basically anything that has anything to do with Greek Mythology I simply love.
This game is no exception. I can talk about everything I love about this game but one thing absolutely fascinated me. Say, for instance, in the first adventure, you build your city up enough where it can support a sanctuary for both Ares and Athena, the God and Goddess of war respectively. You have no military and invaders start attacking your city. If you don't get scared and bribe them off and decide to defend your city, guess what happens...the invaders have to fight the combined strength and power of both Ares and Athena.
Imagine an entire army being creamed by Ares and Athena! This is just one of the things that you can see within this game if you have gods on your side. Even better, have Zeus himself on your side and he takes out the armies by himself, even if you have no military.
To me, this is one of the best city building games of all time, right up there with Pharaoh and Civilization.
The game never ends!! Posted Friday, July 08, 2005
I purchased this game with the Poseidon expansion (Acropolis)for about $4 at a local game store thinking it would just be a way to waste spare time. I became addicted to it in almost no time at all with gods battling each other, keeping people happy and healthy while trying to build onto your city. I was shook up when I tried to install it on my new system and it would not install to save my life because it was too scratched. Since then, I've tried to re-purchase Acropolis willing to spend 5 times the ammount of money on it, but it is no longer available. I will find a way to have this full version game again so that spare time can be spent wisely making Hera tame Zeus and watching my little dudes run from the monsters which attack at any given time.
A challenge for beginners Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004
I first saw the ad for Zeus in an Archaeology Magazine and was curious. So I bought it and found it was real fun but also a challenge. It took me weeks to pass some levels. I took my copy to Venezuela and my sister loved it so I gave it to her and bought another one. Then I bought Great Empires 2 and that had Zeus so I gave my second copy to my niece. So I'm on my 3rd copy of Zeus. It's a game you can't get enough of.
good, But doesnt Master Pharaoh. Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Granted i like this game a lot. But some interface controls and other aspects of city building dont master Pharaoh. Like when you wish to trade with a city in zeus you must build a seperate trading post for every city on the world map, which reaches a large number by the end of the game.In pHaroah all you must do is build one dock or just leave you tradable product in the storage yard Also food distrubution doest beat out pharaoh. In Zeus you must create a different store for every product, and it is hard to suply every neighberhood with all it needs. In Pharaoh There is one Food distribution center that sells everything. Another Falt of Zeus Is the difficulty. By the first hour of playing i had a flourishing city. This is fun, but it gets old after a while.Monument Building is easier in zeus, but there arnt as many monumentz s to build, so once you have built all the temples to the olympian gods, you get bored.The last reason Pharaoh masters Zeus is that there is not as much to do as ther is to in pharoah. The adventures can be easily mastered, and after that you have little to do, It lacks a campaign as good as pharoahs. I suggest you purchase pharaoh over zeus, even though both are good games. Pharoah is the greatest i think, city building game in the market as of now.
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