GamingHave You Played… Emperor: Rise Of The Middle Kingdom?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

I’m always going on about Pharaoh, the Impressions city builder from 1999 that’s lodged itself in my psyche like a toy soldier in an alsatian’s paw. And every time I mention how good it is, some forlorn soul in the comments mentions Emperor: Rise Of The Middle Kingdom, it’s successor-but-one (after Zeus: Master of Olympus) from 2002, as being better. And you know what? They’re right. Pharaoh will always be my favourite because I’m just so into the theme, but Emperor was by far the better game, and is arguably as good as historical city builders ever got.

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