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So I bought Caesar IV

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I originally tried to buy it at Walmart, they didn't have it instock. I tried Best Buy, they didn't have it in stock. Amazon had it listed with a ship time of 1 to 3 weeks. The preorders from the Caesar IV website were listed as backordered. Either it was selling out fast, or the publisher didn't ship many boxes to retail channels.

As luck would have it, the BX had several copies of it on the shelf and I was able to buy a copy. 🙂

Its a 2 CD game, and the early boxes will be coming with the History Channel documentary 'Rome: Engineering an Empire'.

Installing now.
 
I've been playing the tutorial, just started the 2nd mission in the tutorial campaign. At the start, you have access to the Kingdom(tutorial) campaign and the Republic campaign. Completing the Republic campaign unlocks the third campaign, called Empire. Each chronicles a phase a Rome's development.

There's also the scenario game, which is more a sandbox mode. You have a plot of land, build a city, at its simplest. Some scenarios have goals, and the addition of a scenario editor is a welcome newcomer that didn't exist in previous Caesar games.

Tilted Mill did release the first patch shortly after the release of the game, and I can only hope that there will be more than 1 patch. Previous Caesar games with hurt but Sierra only allowing 1 patch in their titles.
 
The level of detail in this game is astounding. For example, zooming in a pottery factory reveals potters working. One worker opens the kiln door to put pots in to dry, only to have the door close and hit him in the back of his head. Following around tax collectors is also funny. One of my villas was abandoned, and yet the tax collectors still visit the vacant buildings. Clicking on a tax collector while he's sitting in the villa reveals his current status to be 'Slacking off'.

The game brings my system to its knees though. At the start of my city, I'll get about 20fps. As my city approaches 3000, my frame rate slows to about 8 to 10. I'm running it at 1680x1050, with all settings max'd, no AA. Running with 6x AA in the game makes it look absolutely fantastic, but destroys my frame rate entirely. 🙁

I'm running an X2 4200, 2GB of DDR2-800, and a Radeon X1900XT. Clock speeds at stock.
 
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