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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.

Caesar 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't know how much fun the game is or how I would rate it simply because the CD does NOT work. Even though I tried several times the game will not load to my computer. I am very dissapointed.

WTFx1000@aol.com???!?!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: February 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First, the good. The shipping was VERY FAST. Package arived in less than a week. And the game is a blast. ^_^ Now the bad. What I got wasn't what I was expecting. I had placed an order on a NEW copy of the game, but what I got was some sort of reprint from a company in the UK. Putting the disk in the drive caused my firewall to go nuts (I DON'T LIKE HAVING SPY-WARE SENT TO ME!!!) and when I tried to exit the install, it cut off my internet connection. Now why would it want to do that? Also, the boxart that is shown online ISN'T the same box that I got. I liked the game, but was not pleased with all the extra crap that was put on the disk. >=(

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.

Too long, too hard, too addictive!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: August 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

At first, Caesar III got me addicted to the extent that I'd spend all of my waking hours trying to get a good city going, neglecting even my schoolwork. However, once I got into the medium and upper levels, it became obvious that this game was impossible to win!

It takes too long to develop a city up to the required levels. There is no definite objective; instead you have to achieve various set standards for your city before winning. While you focus on keeping your city safe from numerous barbarian hordes, you may inadvertently neglect the cultural facilities (e.g. theaters and stadiums) of your city. Once you achieve the required culture rating, you'll find out that your city isn't "prospering" enough. Each and every person living in your city has their own little complaints which they direct to you. These could range anywhere from disease, fire, floods, thirst, starvation, poverty, earthquakes, enemy attack, and building collapse to unemployment, riots, lack of workers, high taxation, lack of entertainment, and even the wrath of the Roman gods. Your city's houses always want something more, whether it be religious facilities, pottery, fruits, oil, or expensive imported wines. On top of all that, the emperor, Caesar himself, periodically asks for outrageously high amounts of a certain good; he can also order you to send all your soldiers away to defend other cities of the empire. If you don't fulfill his requests, he will be angry at you and send his legions to destroy your city.It takes so much time, frustration, and micro-management to win a single scenario that the gaming experience is simply not worth it.

If you are willing to spend hours upon hours trying to win a game that's simply too hard for most poeple to win, then I wish you good luck. You'll be needing it. But if you're like me and you have better and more useful things to do than listen to the greviances of people in an imaginary city, then I recommend NOT getting this game.

Too diificult

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: May 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really liked this game at first, but the I got further and further along and found that I couldn't get past a certain level, no matter which choice I took. The game wasn't too expensive, but I upgraded to Windows XP and now it doesn't work. My recommendation is not to buy it.

immature and poorly set up

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

maybe it's because i bought it at the same time as pharaoh.. but i was disappointed with this game's poor design.. it really lacks the potential intricacies that pharaoh has.. .. swap ancient egypt for rome, you'll be much happier.

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.

So you want to run a Roman city...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: May 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For those of you looking for a great, realistic and HARD game here it is. You are selected by Rome to run a series of cities, each one with problems and needs different than the last. You will have to develop farms, dig clay pits, fill warehouses, design road systems, supply people with food and goods, build houses, set up markets, workhouses and make sure everybody has clean water. THAN you also have to deal with trade, enemy armies, the Gods and Caesar's own demands for supplies and legions! People will want doctors on call, schools for their kids and theaters for their free time. Businesses will need labor living near them, easy to access docks, roads, warehouses and don't forget lots of enginers to keep things in repair!
Oh, and don't forget the walls, towers and gatehouses!
And lots of roads, gardens, roads, plazas and more roads.

Don't worry, there is a easy setting. And you can turn off the Gods too. Try to take it slow and easy.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........no

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: June 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Caesar III is, in a word, mediocre. When I bought the game I was expecting a graphically rich and advanced game ala "Pharaoh," "Zeus," or even "Caesar II." What I got was what looked like a glorified demo of a really really good game. The designers of Caesar III started out with a great thought and made some thoughtful improvments to Caesar II such as the addition of a senate house for each town and a governor's house, palace, and villa for residing in. They also added 5 separate gods you must appease and keep happy (that's the hard part, don't neglect them). I think the best improvement they made over its predecessor was that there is no separate "city" and "province" map (Caesar II owners will know what I mean and share in my frustration over this) that made the game almost impossible to win (I never won one, I always went broke.)

So Caesar III's designers made some improvements, but they also did a few things I'm not happy with. The game has a dark and despressing ambience that can only keep me playing for about an hour (which translates to about 10 minutes, city-building time, lol). It's also difficult to make money which has made me become dependant on the money cheat (go to impressionsgames.com for details). It's difficult to keep your people fed even when you make the best use out of the usually limited farming area. My last gripe is that you have to keep building prafectures and those architects post all the time that cost money and manpower. It's a good game, don't get me wrong, it could just be a little better, no wait, A LOT better. I didn't get what I was expecting, I didn't even get an instruction book. My suggestion: buy Caesar II if they still make it and enjoy that.

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