"City Empire" reviews the city referendum under simulated operation and construction!

Urban Empire is a business simulation game developed by Reborn Games and published by Kalypso Media Digital in which players lead a city through 200 years of development. Develop your city by setting up planning facilities, attending meetings and making decisions on political issues, bribing or blackmailing your opponents, listening to or ignoring public opinion, etc. All decisions in the game are in the hands of the player. If you are familiar with Kalypso Media Digital, you may know that they have previously published the Tropican series. So, as far as quality is concerned, the game is reassuring.

The price of the game on steam is 112 RMB, which is officially Sinicized by the domestic Light Language Sinicization studio. For players who like to simulate business, the 112R price is worth buying just because there are official Chinese and Chinese voice.

1. Preface

Before the formal review, make a general introduction to the role played by the player, because the biggest difference between this game and the previous city construction games is that the player is only similar to the concept of "mayor", and the player has to choose one of the four families as his role before officially entering the game. Each role will have friendly parties, and hostile parties, the favorable degree of the party will affect the direction of the player's decision, if all the parties are unfriendly to the player, it is likely to be difficult, or even out.

(From the introduction of the picture, we can see that the von Felzen family represents the nobility. The St. Elias family represents the innovationism of inventors, the Kilgarno family represents the workers, and the Schusky family represents the capitalist class.)

2. Innovative game elements

The core of the gameplay of "City Empire" is the study of civilization, because the player's city has to experience about 200 years of development time, so the progress of The Times also requires players to progress in science and technology.

As we can see from the graph, games have gone through 200 years of development from the industrial age to ultra-modern technology (and reportedly alien technology), and the progress of each era of civilization means that you need to take various measures to get the best out of them. This brings us to the second element of the game -- the referendum.

In the game, there will be various parties in the city, each party represents a different force, and your decisions and motions must be implemented through their resolutions.

(A vote is required before a decision is made.)

(There are three ways you can get more support from your party.)

(The majority of the party agrees with your resolution to succeed.)

In addition, there are various small events in the game, and how you deal with these emergencies has a great impact on your government.

(A bad handling of an emergency will lower your party's support.)

When you actually play the game, you'll find yourself almost always struggling with how to win party popularity, and the development of the city in the game is dwarfed by these political battles.

3. Diverse gameplay

The game is divided into campaign mode and scene mode, the campaign mode provides the choice of the family, tells the story of how to manage and develop the city through the role of the family, during which you will face a variety of choices, the struggle of the party, the cultivation of the family's children, the strategy of the city's development, and the campaign mode's level is also varied. Scene mode versus campaign mode requires the player to choose an area to manage and manage, more like SimCity.

4, simple game screen

The game is quite comfortable in color, the green earth, the colorful town stands in the middle of the earth, and the picture is also like most games, with real-time scenes, with the continuous progress of the city, the town will undergo earth-shaking changes, the carriage is gradually eliminated, replaced by more advanced and efficient cars, and the house will be replaced by high-rise buildings. It is equivalent to thoroughly experiencing the changes of several eras in the game.

Of course, if you look closely at the streets, you may be disappointed. Compared to a simulation game like City: Skylines, City Empire has a slightly one-dimensional representation of the streets, and you rarely see pedestrians on the streets, which can be a bad experience for a player who likes details.

5. Sound

The biggest highlight of the music of "City Empire" should be that the dubbing is in Chinese, which can also see the sincerity of the game to Chinese players, and the sound effect will not have a great sense of violation, but the background music is slightly insufficient compared to the previous mature and innovative gameplay, the music is basically circular, sometimes annoying.

Overall comment

"City Empire" is a very surprising game, several years of simulation business games, "Island Island" has a unique story; Cities: Skylines is rich in mods; "Anno" series has a delicate painting style, this game is more like the business class of "The Kingdom", the party struggle is very detailed, especially after unlocking the technology in the later stage, you can even install spies in the party to make your resolution easier to pass. As a niche game in 17 years, we have seen that the game company is full of sincerity for domestic players, the Chinese quality is high, and the Chinese voice is equipped, and it is easy to lose track of time after learning. For players who like simulation business, this game is quite worth buying.

Finally, please don't mistake this for a simple city-building simulation game, this is more like Civilization - Kingdom of the general strategy game.