Step into the world of the ancient Orient. Control a city or tribe from the dawn of Chinese history, and turn it into a great empire. Develop your land, create great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic wars. Advance your technology, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s great civilizations. All the action takes place on one spectacular game map that brings to life the mountains, forests, plains and deserts of China. Zoom in close to review your troops and see your peasants toiling, or zoom out for a strategic overview. Plan your battles, end your turn, and then watch as your armies obey your orders, with hundreds of soldiers battling right on the game map.
It is quite enjoyable despite a few AI and difficulty issues, but it gets boring and repetitive pretty fast. It seems simply too unvaried and monocultural, and it also lacks expansion packs or DLC or any real modding capability (at the moment at least, developers plan to introduce modding support later on).
Gameplay: 8/10
Content: 3/10
Replayability: 6/10
AI/Difficulty: 7/10
Other: okay/okay (Soundtrack, etc)
as good as RTK