"Cradle of Rome --For the Glory of
Rome! I started Cradle of Rome with expectations that "here
we go again yet another match three." That's where I was wrong,
Cradle of Rome has a strange addiction, kind of like mixing Milk
with Pepsi. It should'nt be so good but yet you keep coming back
for more. I always fall for history game, especially Egyptian, Greece
and Roman history, I have tried them all, even the more complex
simulatins, but I found that Cradle of Rome held up against the
best. The powerups are useful and fun, but the good thing about
the Cradle of Rome is the feeling of building an empire without
micromanagement of standard RTS/RPG games, It's simplier buy very
satisfying. I found the cartoony graphics appealing and loved the
feeling that you're actually doing something, building a momument,
buildings, or rescuing animals. There are entertaining comical anecdotes
and interesting historical facts. I'll be playing it again and again--I
love it."- Gaming for History
"Cradle of Rome is Addicticus Maximus.This
is not just match three, this is Empire building!. You use strategy,speed
and cunning to gather food,gold and supplies to feed your citizens
and help Rome grow. The music and graphics are stunning- the city
fountain is mesmerising, it seems to lift out of the centre- watch
it for a while and see what I mean.The bonuses are a little different,
building up as you progress,increasing your resources and wealth.
You can save bonuses from level to level, continue to make matches
whilst combos happen all over the board. Cool crashing and exploding
sounds and viz effects,like lightning, add to the feeling of real
acomplishment at the end of each level. Houses and building which
you buy with supplies become increasingly expensive so its a real
incentive to keep matching and smashing your way through the levels
to see what comes next. You pass through each stage to a fanfare
of music and fireworks, your citizen status increases from Peasant
to preist to merchant and so on. Last game as good as this, for
me, was Realms of Gold. I've
got to go now- My people and my Empire await me!" -
Citizen of Rome
"Cradle of Rome: All Hail Caesar. What
a magnificent game! Yes, it is a match 3 type game, but nothing
like the rest. You are slowly re-building the ancient city of Rome,
as you progress through the levels. Each building you buy, gives
you a new power up, and source for either food, gold, wood, etc,
as each building requires a certain amount of each for purchase.
It's not an easy game either, it's a definite challenge, with around
100 levels of addicting game-play, and you are on a clock, the faster
you finish, the bigger the bonus! Once you've reached Emperor status
and have completed re-building Rome, you are given the chance to
visit Olympus, hence, giving you several more levels to complete,
and here is where it gets harder. If you lose all of your lives
during these levels, you will need to start off at the last of the
five Eras and re-purchase everything from that Era all over again.
It's challenging, fun, and very rewarding. Big thumbs up and a Hail
Caesar! " - Emperor at Last!
"Cradle of Rome is Addicting... Oh yeah,
this game is really, really, really addicting. Once again, at first
I thought it was a simple match-three shape match game. I started
to play it and then instantly got hooked. It is easy to play, it
has cool powerup's, and the graphics are very colorful.The idea
of having to build your own Rome also added to the challenge. It
gets very hard, very fast but never loses it great gameplay value.
Surely Cradle of Rome will become one of the classic games."
- Georgio
"Cradle of Rome Really Put Me in Rome
Heaven. I bought this game and thought, oh no not a 'kind-a-bejeweled-game'!
But it's very different. You earn new kind of blocks to swap with
each other, and that's fun! Beside your score, you have to gather
recources. When you collapse some wood-like-blocks, you get more
lumber for it. The same with food and gold/silver coins. With the
recources you've earned you can buy some buildings to enhance your
civilisation more and more. While doing that you get new blocks
and new reacources to gather. A real fun game for the Bejeweled-kind-addicted,
which I am NOT, of course, but then I did really like this one."
- Sofisticated Sofia
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