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89The game dynamics are the best improvement in the game. Structures are being built faster, and require fewer resources.
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Apart from striking the perfect balance between historical fact and romanticized fiction, they've managed to capture the essence of what makes the city building series fun and turn it into a game that feels almost wholly different from "Caesar III "and "Pharaoh."
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91The game is extremely well designed, has lots of innovation, has replayability galore, and is loads of fun to play.
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Shorter scenarios, smarter AI, and extensive military features make the game much more fun and intriguing, and the mythology aspects add a whole new dynamic.
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Its faster pace, simpler city design, and mythological elements open the game to more casual players, but it retains enough depth to entertain long-time fans and adds the broader world-view they have requested for years. In other words, it's fun!
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95Zeus is a different city builder game because it is not restricted to just that. It is also a game of wits and diplomacy, as well a game of survival in the struggle for power.
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100The city-building series has been popular before, but we think Zeus has the potential to blow this series up big-time.
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The real fun begins when monsters begin to show up and you must fulfill the requirements for recruiting a Hero that will bash its head in before too many people get gobbled up by the wandering nasty.
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90If you are looking for a festive thinker to play in between consuming copious amounts of booze, this will be ideal, although I wouldn't recommend playing it with a hangover. A thoroughly addictive, engrossing game that ranks among my top five for this year.
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80I must say that I have been pleasantly surprised with how well polished a game this is.
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Quite easy to learn, but incredibly difficult to master. Perhaps it's just me who needs to do a little adjusting, but I think newcomers to the city-building games are going to be in for a rough time.
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Certainly engrossing, but it's just not quite fun enough.
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80It delivers more great city building action with enough twists on the genre to keep fans playing for hours on end.
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If you loved "Caesar" and "Pharaoh," you'll probably really like Zeus. You'll probably enjoy the game also if you enjoy the challenge of building a city and an economy to run it, provided you have the patience to wait for your efforts to bear fruit.
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90A well oiled machine (not unlike Kirk Douglas in "Spartacus") that needs no fine tuning. While the pacing is a bit slow (even with the game going at top speed), the gameplay is nevertheless addicting.
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88If you're new to the series or a Greek aficionado then this is an excellent place to start, but if you stopped playing one of the earlier games after a few levels there's nothing that'll inspire you to play any more of this one.
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86Zeus plays like a best-of-all-worlds combination of some of the greatest strategy games ever.
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93Its total package is made up of great game play, great graphics, great sound . . . just an overall great experience.
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91Despite my inability to pin down what really makes this title so special, it is easy to say that it is exactly this reason that I feel that it has actually one-upped the respected Pharaoh.
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80Though city-building strategy is a niche genre that has never been my favorite, it's fair to say that ZMO is the most fun I've had in quite a while.
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91In depth campaigns and three open-ended sandbox modes give you all the game you could ever want.
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68More ambitious than its predecessors, but ultimately less balanced. [Jan 2001, p.148]
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It’s to the developer’s credit that this does not feel at all like "Pharaoh" with a Greek touch, but has its own feel and style to it.