The best of the Caesar City building Series
Simple graphics that link very well together, fun interaction with citizens, background sound that covers the city with a pleasant ambiance and a musical score is superbly orchestrated makes you feel as if you are a Caesar in the making.
The game play is graduated, the learning curve well thought out, and the AI allows for good interaction with the civs and administration for your city. The patch/Scenario editor released shortly after the game debuted, opened up a world of different options to create new games and a sandbox play that can fill a gigantic map with a multitude of smaller cities, all interlinked to each other.