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Always Wonderfully Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am not a great gamer, that's not to say that I don't love video games or even that I'm not good at them, but I'm so impatient and fickle that after about a week my devotion wanes and I hardly ever play again. To date there have only been two exceptions to this rule, one of them is of course Caesar III. Over the past few years I have risen to the rank of Caesar several times, ruled over countless independent cities and still my love remains true. If it is ever uninstalled from my computer it gets rediscovered a few weeks later and the whole process is restarted. After all this time it is still my favorite sim game and probably my favorite game of all time.

Divide et impera

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I like strategy games very much and that is just the kind I like the most. Tough, with broad list of varieties and not too fast to play. It has two different paths (you can switch between them as you wish, whenever you choose your next destination) - governing in peace or battle with the enemies. You must just follow some basic tips and the outcome will shorly be positive (it's only matter of time and nerves). 1. Build slowly (don't make too much housing at the beginning). You are usually limited with Peace rating and you can only gain it with the time, so take your time. You will spend too much money if you start too fast. 2. Build with care (leave space for additional buildings). When you start playing certain destination, take yourself five minutes (put in Pause mode or to 10% speed) to overview the terrain. I had best results with 4×4 blocks of housing with stripes of 2×4 spaces on top & bottom and 3×4 spaces left & right. 3. Watch your ratings and advisors carefully! Don't except everything they say to you, but keep in mind that people are very demanding and you won't be able to fool them for long. 4. Specials - you can have tax rate up to 14%, don't fool with Caesar more than twice (third time it's six legions!) and keep the festivals running. For futher info or comments please email me.

Caeser's Legon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think Caeser 3 is a great strategy game that is fun and challenging. I'd have to say that Caeser 3 is a great war game if you chose to play on a not so peacful province. But even with a peacful province you can still have fun by trying to get a lot of people and other things. I like personally building up your city until the whole map is full then I build another city. Like I said before this is also a great war game, you can have up to 96 soldiers in your army. You can have 6 forts 16 men in a fort, but not only that you can have different soldiers such as Mounted on horses, Javilen with javilen, and Legonaries with sords and shields. If you train your army then you will domenate the battle fields. You can fight Caeser's army made up of blue Legonaries, also a lot more that you can check out. But my personal favorite are the barrbarions that come on some missions.
But the jobs and things you can put on your made are incredible there must be over 200. I would really recemend this game and I gave it 5 stars for it's great game play and enjoyment, check it out.

Very good game,excellent graphics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Building cities in this game is fun and sometimes challenging. Great game. Weaknesses : to have to start from scratch the new city after each promotion The military side is weak.

Caesar3-- Still the ultimate Adictive Sim 5 years later

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Life in Rome starts out circa 300 BC as a Citizen tasked to found a modest town (Brundisium). To do so you have to manage things well enough to keep the people happy, immigration up, appease the gods, and manage (priorities matter in the game tremendously) resources, especially labor. You then advance to the rank of Clerk and successively those of engineer, archetect, praetor, proconsul, aedile,... etc. by founding new cities, and achieving Caesar's targeted goals based upon (Peace, Prosperity, Favor with Rome, Population, and Culture) for that particular senario. At your second promotion and thereafter, i.e. the third mission, you get to choose between two different new colonies to found, with usually very different types of problems to overcome (taken together, senarios). Thus the advancement ladder is not limited to a sole path and set of fixed senarios.

This game consumes you and your spare time. It's a wonderful learning experience, speaking as a almost fity-something parent, and doubly so as a parent of two AD/HD youngsters. It's not a good game for kids below 4th or 5th grade as the necessary trade-offs, alternate solutions necessary, and overall complexity just lead to frustrated children. In that sense, the game is too tough in the even in the early senarios and even in "Very Easy Mode". However, it is definitely a game for a child to grow with and through experiencing! One where you can put yourself together with your kid and share a satisfying bonding experience by working out the strategy together, and letting the kid spend the time implimenting it. Mom's and Dad's -- just how many games lend themselves to that!

Of the just under twenty senarios, I've only failed to beat two, but have achieved becoming deiified as the new Caesar, thanks to the dual advancement senario ladder noted above. The two failures have both been because of the sprite limitation (Memory Ceiling)which only affects the most advanced senarios, which is documented on the web site AND Manual (I'd just forgotten about it). Getting around that limit will require a different set of tasking strategies... the actual thrust and crux of the game, so is nothing new playing Caesar III -- that's the actual key to the games attraction and longevity. Each senario forces some adaptation and advancement of your game management techniques. Since the solutions are necessarily customized to the over-riding perameters of the senario, it encourages and requires creative management.

It's literally taken a man-month or two of effort to become Caesar spred over 2 or 3 years of entertainment experiences... and I only regret not realizing the memory limit sooner lead to unnecessary frustrations. (I suppose I also reget not knowing about the single cheat code that my youngest dug up off the web just last week sooner... but then I'd never have had the satisfaction of beating up Caesars legions and still advancing to the next rank/colony. Trust me, that was satisfiing in the extremis!) Both the manual and the website mention the memory/sprite ceiling. The website has an upgrade (not a bug fix) to give warnings when the limit is near or reached, so you can avoid this problem.

When all is said and done, non-war SIM games are like golf, you really play against yourself for self-improvement. This one is great because you constantly have to rethink your management, and go outside the box. Other great SIMS (SIMCITY, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon II) require far less of that, if any, and that is why if I had to limit myself to a single game, this one would be it!

Replaying earlier old senarios is even more fun... the icing on the cake as you can now look back with fresh eyes and a much fuller flexible bag of tricks to breeze past what had been daunting challanges as you mastered new tools and understanding. The more advanced senarios are like the one's early on -- there's never an easy win, you somehow just scrape by within the senarios resources to just manage a win.

It certainly keeps me coming back for more! Seven Stars out of Five! And at this price how can you afford not to buy it?

Long-time Player

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have owned and played this game for a long time now but I haven't played it recently for some time. My Mother continues to play, probably because she has a greater attention span than myself, the teenager. I enjoyed the game at first and it was challenging enough but it did not spitefully mess up your civilization. I found the simple city building things dull because eventually you run out of space to build and then it's just over. There needs to be a high score list too for greater competition with fellow players. The game gets dull after a while but all games do, eventually you forget about it and can go back to it. That's what I like about city-building games. If you like games like Civilization and Sim City and are interested in Ancient Rome, I reccomend this game.

Interesting game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Caesar 3 is in many ways what "Sim Roman Empire" would be; you build a city, regulate taxes, create defence unit (sorry - you can't conquer other cities) and control resources. To say that there's a lot to keep track off is an understatement, but the clear interface simplifies the task considerably. You also get a lot of help from your advisors who will tell you how well you're doing in various areas and what you need to improve.

All in all the game is very good, although it can be a tad difficult at times (like Caesar's demands). This is a game you need to play if you like intellectually stimulating games.

Totally engrossing and entertaining!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sorry mom, I can't do the dishes; I have to plan a festival to Venus and then send a troupe of slaves to the Emperor!

This game was fantastic. There were a couple errors (like Neptune being referred to as Jupiter and small things such as that) but I completely ignored them because the game was so much fun. It's like sim city but people push carts instead of driving cars and you have to worry about appeasing the gods rather than robot invasions. Trading with other cities is fun and sometimes challenging, as is building up a military or sending gifts to the Emperor to increase your favour rating. Just don't get in the red too often or he'll arrest you!!

Overall I think this game is better than Sim City. The actions you can take regarding the military, gods, dealing with Rome and dealing with all the other diverse facets of building up a roman city make it a great game and tons of fun. I recommend this for anyone who likes building or sim games!

IMPOSSIBLE!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 18
Date: September 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loathe this game. Sure, it's fun when you beat a level but it takes me roughly 20 tries per level. It's nerve shattering in it's randomness and worse off half the city burns and has to be replaced each level. Fair? No, in fact I want to find the programmer and strangle him for making such an idiotic imbalance to luck and skill. You think you're doing fine after you recovered from plague, whoops, here comes an invading army. If you fended off the army, Caesar gets displeased and dispatches a legion to wipe you out. If you manage to beat Caesar's first legion, he sends more doubling in size every time. That's not to consider the fact that your people are starving, the gods are angry and your city is on fire again and the plague is sweeping your houses again since the doctors were killed by Caesar's legions and you're in debt 5000 Dn to the emperor. Ridiculous. Most units are worthless too, the prefects only put out fires and I've never seen one actually fight a legionaire and not die. I've seen 8 prefects on 1 last surviving legionaire and he kills them all and ransacks my whole city!!! ONE FREAKING GUY RANSACKS AN ENTIRE CITY!!! You'd think he'd at least suffer exhaustion or something but nope!

All in all I need to find a vomitarium. Ugh.

Waiting for Caesar IV

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hi to all!
Caesar III is great, but after playing Pharaoh and Zeus,I must admit that a new Caesar should be improved in many ways.First, the warfare should be more offensive,in order to conquer new cities or empires.Then,we should be allowed to request military help, as in Zeus.I must include also the possibility of foreign alliances-military or give-receive gifts.
That's it!
Bye!

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