After a long wait, the next-in-series game...basically, well...sucks.
I started the game for the first time, was kind of unimpressed with the intro movie, I mean by 2006/2007, you'd think the graphics and physics of intro's would be better, but they weren't.
After starting to play the actual game, I was disappointed so much, I actually had to leave an unfinished mission. I never do that. No, I wasn't losing, I was bored. The economy kind of is unreal and just doesn't work, the game doesn't indicate how far something can be placed in order for it to still work, the worker-distribution was poor, and the way plebs get their needs was hardly acceptable. The game takes awhile to really start up, and once you start playing it, you feel like you are FORCED to play it, seeing something not working, and having to fix it. That's how the whole mission will work, and once you're done it, you look back, and don't feel proud at all, wanting to just go onto the next mission and kind of 'get it over with'. There are even noticeable and visible BUGS in the game, such as building roads, aqueducts, clearing areas, and more.
In short, the game was a disastrous disappointment after Caesar III, and a waste of my time. If anyone actually likes the game, I strongly suggest getting CivCity: Rome, it's almost exactly like Caesar IV, but way better, mainly because of the Tilt and Gameplay.