Grand Ages: Rome

Graphics look nice, and once your town gets going you can zoom down into the city and watch your little citizens walking to work or the store, fights happening at the arena, people preaching at the temple, etc.

It's fun, it has enough depth to it as to easily throw a couple of hours in one single mission/map, it has some replayability and it's difficult enough to be somewhat challenging to be catching.

It does have some good points, linked into the story is the fact that you play as Roman character that you level up as you progress, which is a nice touch and even by today’s standards, it looks half decent, though admittedly that’s not hard on a city builder.

"Grand Ages: Rome" features a relatively accessible learning curve, making it suitable for players new to the city-building and strategy genre.

All of it, including the soundtrack, does the job to create the appropriate atmopshere and immerse you into what happens on screen.