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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.

Lots of fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game! Its very entertaining. It takes sim games to a new level because you can hear the opinions of the people walking on the streets. You must provide for the citizens, the various Roman Gods, the Empire, and keep pesky intruders away. It got me interested in Rome and Caesar, by representing the kinds of problems people had to deal with back then. So get it! Its fun, and, dare I say it, educational, and takes strategy and planning but isn't so hard that you can't win.

No Weaknesses

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is very good. Many people say this game is alot like Sim City, but its not. This game is much better than Sim City, the fact that the buildings you make are ten times better is just one of the difference. Second is, Caesar III has more objectives that are alos better, and keep the game going longer and longer.

Good, but two big problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 51 / 65
Date: December 01, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for a couple of months earlier this year, and enjoyed it very much. It was very exciting when you got to the point where you were generating money, pleasing Caesar, and increasing the population. There are two big problems, though.

The first is that the instruction booklet, which comes with the game, is not complete. In order to get to the nitty gritty, which I insist on knowing in every game, you must buy the companion "strategy" guide. This is bull. For the $ you have to plop down in the first place, you should be able to get complete instructions.

The second problem, and the more serious one, is that the game is almost impossible to win. Now I expect it to be difficult, and I don't mind playing a scenario three or four times before I get it right, but at some point, I would like to be rewarded with a victory.

In Caesar, the goals are usually to reach a certain population level, and to reach a certain rating in four categories: peace, prosperity, culture, and favor. You can see where you are at any given time. So you click on prosperity, and you are at 31, and to reach the goal, you must have 35. You click on it, and it says, for example, to build more theatres. So you do. A year goes buy, or about ten minutes, and the favor improves to 33. Great, you think, I will win next year. But the next year rolls around, and it stays at 33! Why? You click on it again, and it says the favor rating is improving. So you wait another year. Now it goes down! So you click again. Again it says the rating is imrproving. And the following year, it does. But now it's been forty minutes, you've accomplished everything else, and you'd like to go on to the next scenario, especially since you've played this one five times already.

I finally quit in exasperation, and haven't picked it up since. It is unfortunate, because all the other ingredients were there.

The game is excellent but the size of your city is limited

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I think Caesar III is a great game. But After spending some hours working on my city I was suddenly halted when I could no longer build anything. Their web site says there are size limits to the cities. Otherwise this game is really fun and has kept me entertained for hours.

sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

this game was sweet i played it a lot the graphics are great and the way you can interact with your fellow citizens is great. though the military thing was a little bad because you can only click around them not at them. all the buildings you can build worship gods and the option to not have enimies in city construction mode is great

Wonderfully Addictive and Challenging!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Caesar III is wonderfully addictive and challenging. You can expect weeks and weeks (even months)of thought provoking game play with this one. Hours go by without eating or sleeping, it's utterly engrossing! Quit your day job! This is much more fun! I find myself dreaming of city maps and getting up in the middle of the night to play them out. This game can be won! Easy to install and run, very reliable (have not crashed once)and a wonderful online community of support and tips at Sierra. Can't wait to see Pharoh! A definate Buy!

Waste of Money, Time, and Computer Resources

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I am very displeased with Caesar III. Altough the game is fun at first, it becomes so difficult in the latter part of the game that I became frustrated.

Another problem is that you need a superfast computer in order to manager this program on your interface. For example, I have a Dell Pentium II @700 megahertz with 128 MB SDRAM. My computer should have handled the software fine, however to my surprise the program ran slow, and often I would have to reboot the computer because Caesar III would eat up my memory. Several of my friends tell me the same problems happened in their computers too. That's not coincidental! Its a problem for Caesar III.

My final problem with Caesar III is that the computer often misleads you into building certain temples, fora, and buildings at the wrong time. Unlike SimCity, the tools that Caesar III offers you in the game work against you. Which makes the game a terrible experience and a load of time in order to complete each sceneario. I know that Julius Caesar was fastidious leader, however I would never suspect that he his so hard to please in a software game.

This is what it comes down to: Don't purchase Caesar III. You'll find that many problems are common while running this program. I suggest that you find other software programs to purchase.

Best building game since Civ II!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: January 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is an excellent game for gamers who want to build cities; the game is complex enough to challenge you, yet the "advisors" are there to prevent the complexity from becoming frustrating. You can get many hours of pleasure for your dollars.

Very few games I know of have such a user-friendly and frustration-free system. One reviewer lamented the lack of difficulty settings, but a simple free patch at the Sierra site provides five difficulty levels and some other good tweaks. One of the interesting aspects of this game is how you get to know the character of certain neighborhoods. While the early building is great fun, even better perhaps is the urban renewal by which you fix some of the chaos that naturally occurs in cities (cyber and real). There is no random map generator, but you can play eight different games (four with and four without military actions) *or* choose the career path. Sierra has another free download which lets you create maps and scenarios (I haven't tried it). This is a major advance over Caesar II.

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.

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