Remember 7-10years ago when you just sat glued to your computer building your city? This game brings alot of it back!
The sound and music is okay. But could probably have been better. It got an okay/good theme. It skips the voiceacting, so you gotta read instead, but I feel that is probably the better choice. Cause it might have had some cheesy voice-acting, which is a bad thing.
The gameplay regarding building your city is OMFG AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
The only flaw is it's battle/defend/army system.
BUT, there is a but!! THIS IS A BUILDING GAME?? So the battle system isn't too complicated. Basically, your town needs soldiers. And towers and siege artilleries help to both defend and attack. And if its army against army, the one with more armies win.
It costs to have armies though, so you can't have gazillions of soldiers. You'll be lucky to have a few hundreds soldiers.
Oh, the citizens and the soldiers are 2d sprites, so they don't look so good, and thats partly the reason combat isn't so good either, because its not good-looking :P
I can't say this game got alot of replay value, because at this moment, I haven't finished the game. But it got a great driving force that makes you want to play more of it, so that's good.
Well I got alot more to say and was actually gonna write a really comprehensive guide/review of the game, but couldn't care to do so. So I tried to make it short by having it separated like this.
Anyways, trust me and get this game if you enjoyed Caesar2 (the only historic building game I remember playing and loved). Try the demo at least!