[cfarrell]

Circus Maximus is cool, but it's also a bit long for what you get out of it I felt. But it's one of AH's old games that remains popular.

In fairness to Ave Caesar's theme, I suspect that real Roman chariot races were not as violent as all that, and were mostly just races. Apparently gladiatorial combat in the arena was very rarely fatal.

Having said that though, I agree that Ave Caesar is pretty boring. I've played it a fair amount and I really don't see why it's been such a huge collector's item all these years. Not a lot of interesting choices, long and pretty tedious (and that's playing only one race - you're supposed to do multiples), not a personal favorite.