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Not Fun - just Frustrating!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 26 / 81
Date: November 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Before buying this game, I strongly recommend downloading the demo off their website first. As a fan of many of the "God Games" out there, I found this one very unintuitive. In short, all of the people are stupid and the game itself does some very dumb things.

For instance, there are points in the demo where the farmworkers just sit there and drown as the Nile River rises. The question isn't "what's causing this person to just sit there"... the question is "why is this even occurring?"

That's just one example, there are many, many, more. Another example? Ok, I got to a point in the game where half of the population would just leave. Then, six months later, they'd all return again just to repeat the same process again and again year after year. Does this make any sense?

I found all the micromanagement to be very tiring. The object of the game isn't to build an empire, it's to figure out all the stupid little workarounds it takes to make these people do what they should be doing without any thought.

This is just the demo, folks! I strongly suggest you see for yourself before you drop your cash on the real deal.

Derek

Bad bad bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I found this game dull to be honest. I love strategy games but this one isn't all that great. In-game instruction is inadequate and you'll quickly find yourself with a sprawling town that is too complicated to be of any fun and difficult to manage even on the very first level. My recommendation, try it before you buy it, in case you hate it as much as I do. Anyone wanna buy my copy?

SimCity in Ancient Egypt

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pharaoh is a city building game (like SimCity), but set in Egypt, during the pre-dynastic period. You start by building a settlement, addressing basic needs and continue onward. Unlike SimCity, there are various goals to hit such as population goals.

As the game progresses, it gets harder.

Unfortunately, I found myself building and managing the population, but having to check the deities almost constantly. Unless you hold regular festivals, constantly build shrines, the gods will grow angry and exact revenge on your civilization. I found it to be more tedious than fun.

this game just isin't much fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: July 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After a few missions I had enough of this game. The graphics are terrible, the replay value is very low, but worst of all there are like two songs that just play over and over. The music is the most irritating thing I have ever heard. I just didn't enjoy this game much. If you like city building games then you may like this one, but if you like more hard core games then don't waste your time. If the music was better then maybe I would have liked it, but I couldn't make myself play it because it drove me nuts.

If you have Caesar III, save your money!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is exactly the same as Caesar III, they have just changed the interface and graphics.
If you wanna my advise, save your money for a newer game. However, if you don't have Caesar III, it will be intersting for you no doubt.

Play the demo

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Does the game look great? Yes. Is it challenging? Sure. But... I found it painfully repetitive. You start out by building a city. Once you get it to prosper, you move to a new location and build another city. You may have a few more building options, but it is basically the same thing over and over. Building monuments does give a sense of accomplishment, but they do take a long time. The graphics are fun -- dancers and jugglers and thieves running around (my personal favorite are the hippos munching reeds) and the music adds nice flavor without being repetitive. But I would advise anyone interested in buying this game to play the demo (available at GamePower.com ) first. This will give you all of the Pharaoh phun you need.

This game could have been so much more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game was a fun game, but it could have been made so much better. It had many fun points to it, with a lot of variety, although theirs so much variety, and since everything can be made in the form of something else, it can take a very long time to get to "point A to point B". The game also has a very boring "custom land" game, where you are given a type of land, and you just build, as their are no more than 12, and only like 3 or 4 are any good. The campaign is VERY confusing, as i was in the 4th level, i accidently chose "continue playing level" after i beat the level, and now it wont let me advance, wont let me replay the level, wont let me rebeat the last level, etc... So I had to restart the entire campaign, which is very annoying. Also, the game is extremely easy. My friend, who had never played Pharaoh, or any game like it, played for about 15 minutes, and had already made a city that could rival the greatest city ever built in Egypt. Also, this game seems just to be Caeser 3 in disguise. i have Caeser 3, and this game bears amazing resemblance to it. i know their both made from the same company, but many aspects of the game are almost identical, and the only difference is the picture. Which is why I gave this game 3 stars, it's a fun game, but if your even mildly good at any "city-builder" you'll beat this game in about one coffee break. Or if you've played Caeser 3 and you didn't like it, expect the same reaction from this game.

Caesar III All over again

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Although they attempt to distinguish this game from Caesar III with some minor religion and "family reign" type settings, this game is Caesar III with a different front end.

If you like Caesar 3, you will like this game also. It plays very well and the movies aren't bad. If you got tired of Caesar 3 (as I did) don't buy Pharoah... it is close enough that you won't want to play it.

Different

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Pharaoh is different, in the sense that the workers in the game tend to act randomly and can be hard to control. This game just never really clicked with me. Starcraft, Warcraft, Age of Empires, and Civilization were more enjoyable to me. But if you have played these to death give Pharaoh a try.

It's not working

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

oh man, got this game for [money], after i install it, ever thing runs but no sound. i want to the game site then found out it dose not work with windows 2000 or XP. :(

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