"... With its standard real time strategy gaming conventions, its desire to incorporate role playing aspects into the genre and atmosphere unseen in any real time game, Haemimont seems set, with the release of Tzar: Burden of the Crown, to both put Bulgaria on the gaming map and turn the world of RTS gaming on its head..."

"...Haemimont, a Bulgarian developer, is currently producing a real-time strategy game that certainly won't slip unnoticed onto our local store shelves..."

"... the fact that a single strategy could defeat almost any opponent scorned many players. TZAR hopes to change all that by offering tightly focused and balanced gameplay. By limiting the number of races to three, Haemimont chose to detail every inch of three sects..."

"... Over the past couple of years we've had such a glut of real-time strategy games that the very term is enough to induce much yawning and eye-rolling in all but the most enthusiastic of gamers. But Tzar: The Burden Of The Crown, from Bulgarian developer Haemimont, is really rather nice..."

"...Tzar's inclusion of experience points for combat units really shifts the way the game plays away from the ideal of large armies that win simply because they're bigger..."

"... On first impressions, Tzar has got the graphics and interface to offer a challenge to the best. But Haemimont have also made a brave attempt to extend the genre beyond the games we are used to into new territory..."