Post by Keith Heitmann on Apr 9, 2007 14:23:46 GMT -5
It's been a while since I had played Children of the Nile after completeing the campaign several times I had taken a break and then last year I had some corruption in my Windows user certificate and had to wipe my drive and reinstall everything and I lost all my screenshots and save game files.
So having played through CivCity Rome three times in a week and then after getting Caesar IV and having played through that several times, I fired up CotN once more and just started playing the individual scenarios one by one. I've alreadly completed Men-nefer (my personal favorite and the one I beta tested to death), Nubt, Nekhen, Khmun, and I just finished Iunu last night.
CotN has a much more leisurely pace to it that is great when you just want to really concentrte on building something and not have to worry about constantly fulfilling requests or fending off killer invasions. I still like the way the camera works and the zoom levels in CotN much better than any of the other games. I only wish they had given us the same zoom in Caesar IV.
In Khmun, I spent more time building a fancy necropolis (burial area) than I had ever done in any other CotN city. It had gardens, plaza tiles, planters, a couple dozen mastabs, several very small pyramids, two small pyramids, trees, and it was all enclosed in walls with to entrances with statues lining the entry ways. It took me longer to build all this than it did to acutally complete the city and the scenario goals.
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So having played through CivCity Rome three times in a week and then after getting Caesar IV and having played through that several times, I fired up CotN once more and just started playing the individual scenarios one by one. I've alreadly completed Men-nefer (my personal favorite and the one I beta tested to death), Nubt, Nekhen, Khmun, and I just finished Iunu last night.
CotN has a much more leisurely pace to it that is great when you just want to really concentrte on building something and not have to worry about constantly fulfilling requests or fending off killer invasions. I still like the way the camera works and the zoom levels in CotN much better than any of the other games. I only wish they had given us the same zoom in Caesar IV.
In Khmun, I spent more time building a fancy necropolis (burial area) than I had ever done in any other CotN city. It had gardens, plaza tiles, planters, a couple dozen mastabs, several very small pyramids, two small pyramids, trees, and it was all enclosed in walls with to entrances with statues lining the entry ways. It took me longer to build all this than it did to acutally complete the city and the scenario goals.
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