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Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing CaesarIII for the past few weeks and I have to say it is one of the best games I ever played. Most of the SIM games are fairly easy. Not so for Caesar which will keep you on your toes. The Prosperity Raiting is a little tricky but you can master it. Keep the Gods happy....

This game rocks, and that's all there is to it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best. I don't know what that one guy was talking about when he said that it lagged on his 700 mhz computer. I played it with no problems on an intel celeron, 366 MHz, with 32 megs of ram. (There are several other reasons why he and his friends could have had problems.)

I was very impressed. The graphics, while a little bit dated, soar over those in the Sim City games. Going to war and defending your city are refreshing extras, as with sim city it seems that the whole world is at peace.

Of course, just like any other game, it gets boring after a while, but for me, it took about 100 hours.

If you get this game, you won't be disappointed.

--EDIT--
I originally reviewed this game in the year 2000. Eight years have passed, and I still enjoy going back and playing this game. This level of staying power is rare. Here are some of my more recent observations that I have made since my original review at the age of 15:

The graphics are entirely sprite-based, with an isometric 3d grid, akin to Sim City 2000, as the main playing area. Very dated (today's games, including Caesar IV, are entirely polygon-based), but still charming.

An interesting side-effect of playing on a much faster computer has developeed. I currently have an AMD Athalon 64 processor, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.2 GHz, and 512 MB of RAM. Needless to say, the game runs without my machine breaking a sweat. Through a menu option, the player can change the game's real-time speed, anywhere from 10-100%. While 10-90% speeds are the same as when I played 8 years ago, I've discovered that Caesar III interprets "100% speed" as "take all available computing power and dump it into the Caesar III engine--Make everything go as fast as possible." With an 8-year-old game, this translates into breakneck speeds where all the townspeople run at Superman speed. It also means that there's no way you can keep up with the game's events and succeed. It's fun to watch, though.

I doubt I'll ever get bored with this game in the long-term. Someday I'll be a grandpa who's trying to show off the marvels of antique video gaming with this game as an example, and the grandkids will all feign interest before running back to their crysyal ball-shaped 3d holographic gaming platform, "or whatever these kids are into nowadays."

If you like simulations , you will love this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for sim fans, it is also great for people who who enjoy games with historical themes. The sound does not work that great on my machine , every so often it will just stop working. I also do not like the fact that when I am playing this game it does not allow me to leave to while it is still running. When they make an announcement it will not go away until you tell it to, so when you leave the action will stop in less then 5 minutes.

Four Stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Caesar 3 is a very good city building game. It challenges your abilities at city management. Once you've played this game you can rank yourselves as administrators. Basically, people who love this game either have loads of patience or are very good administrators. People who find this game mediocre can rate themselves the same as administrators (either they lack patience or they need a change in career/game). And people who have no patience with the game...need I say more. I'm pretty good at this game hence I give it a four star rating.

Simple and engaging

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Excellent stuff here. Very good graphics, simple interface, and the lowest learning curve I've seen since Diablo. Remember those old commercials for the board game Othello? "Easy to learn... hard to master." Describes this to a T. My only real problem with it is that the AI seems as if it could be a little more intuitive; places you think your sims will walk don't, and sometimes sims will stroll right by a non-operational place without working there in a city with 25% unemployment. (Drives me up the wall...) But adapting yourself to the AI is rather like being a free-verse poet and writing sonnets; eventually, you'll pick up the nuances. Highly recommended.

This Game Rocks!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just ordered C3 from Amazon but i've been hooked on the demo since it came out. If you like a challenging city building war game this is for you. CEASAR 3 ROCKS!!!

Great game to play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Its next to a real civilisation game and anybody interested in stategy will be taken by this.

regds
Pradeep

Game that keeps me busy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well this is the second time that I've purchased Caesar 3. I actually got it when it was first available and just recently thought about it and went online to find it again. I like to play the freeform mode or "City Construction Kit" I find that building a city and keeping all of the areas happy really challenging. The other great thing is that you can alter the difficulty and even turn the effects of the Gods off... you can also choose between really hard assignments and more trivial ones.

The career mode of the game is more challenging. You have to send gifts to Rome, defend your city from invaders, make enough $ to sustain your city, and keep your people happy. I honestly sit and play this game while watching Tv... The manual is a good tool to keep everything organized...

Just go slow with your building and watch for running out of money. The best way that I have found to keep this from happening is to build forums and keep the tax collectors working. There are very few cheat codes out there for this game....so it's not one you can just fudge your way through. One of the main complaints that I have is that it's really hard to get your housing to evolve past a certain level. It's more frustrating to me that just about anything else. I prefer the freeform mode of the game as opposed to the career mode but that's mainly because I just like to play!

Happy gaming!

Okay, But Could Be Alot Better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love studying the Romans and when I heard of this game I bought it. When I played it, it was great! but then it got boring and way to repetitive. All the game is, is making houses, build farms, honor Caesar that is about it. If you love simulation games get this game. If you don't like simulation games don't get it.

Very good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after purchasing and becoming adicted to Pharoah. C III is as fun as pharoah. However, you must be a little more careful about fires and the colapse of buildings in C-III.

Game is very similar to Pharoah of course, but doesn't matter. The graphics are good and the quality of game play is also just as good.

The scenarios are not nearly as difficult as ol Pharoah, but still I enjoy this game very much.

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