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Send to Sierra

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hi,
This is Max Moulton ofSturbridge MA, and i was wondering if you had any contacts with sierra, for my son loves the game called Pharaoh and was wondering if they were coming out with a new game any time soon about egypt. He and his friends have grown to love the game in the past months and wanted to know so if you have any idea if you would please send me some information. Sincerely,
Max Moulton

game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: September 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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The greatest game and vaule ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks it was like i was the leader of rome the game is great the game is great the game is great the game is great and fun but the graphics are great to and there was like no blood at all and it great for kids but don't be doing some thing improtant because it will just suck you in and o yah this game rocks this game rocks.

There are better games out there

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: July 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

These games expect too much from you. What I mean by that is that everything has to be perfect in the city that you are building in order for the people who live there to be happy.

You have to build their houses in a desirable location, otherwise the houses will be of poor quality and the people will move out. You have to make sure that the people have food, water, jobs, are healthy, have a source of entertainment, and have access to religious services. Providing these things for the people will cost money. If you run out of money, you have to find a way to make more money. One way to make more money is to establish a trade route to another area to trade your goods. This can be hard to do because you will have to find an area that will accept your goods and will trade them for other goods that are useful to you but that you can't produce yourself. You have to make sure that your city has a strong army of soldiers in case of an invasion. Even if you are confident that the people are happy, it seems like they will always have something to complain about. It seems like businesses always complain that they have too few employees. It seems like no matter how many firehouses and architects' posts you build, buildings will constantly be bursting into flame or falling to pieces. Your entire city that you have worked so hard on will be in ruins in just a matter of seconds even if you have the best fire and damage protection. And, you have to make sure that the gods are happy. You need to be constantly throwing festivals in their honor, otherwise they'll do things like send down plagues of locusts or what have you to wreck havoc in your city. What I'm trying to say is that these games are a little too hard. Also, the games have lots of typos, which can be annoying.

These games belong in a 6th grade history classroom to teach kids how hard it was to rule one of these empires. I would not recommend these games to anyone, especially people who are easily frustrated. If you like city-building games, I would recommend Majesty, the Fantasy Kingdom Sim. Now that's a fun game.

no words can explain my feeling

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is just unbelievable...
I have the package, but I have only played Pharaoh so far...
UNBELIEVABLE...
If you don't have this game, go ahead and buy it...
And if you already have it, never stop playing it...
WARNING: very very very very exremely addicting game...
Excellent, superb,etc...

These are the best challenging scenario games - They rock!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Empire Collection just about a week ago now, and so far I have only played CaesarIII, but let me tell you, this game is exactly what one wants in a game: Great graphics, challenging scenarios, smooth running with your computer. CaesarIII is very addictive, as I realised one day when I woke up and spent from 9:30am till 4:00pm playing it. I was not even conscience of the time but even after all that time I still hadn't got bored. Personally, one thing I like is that it doesn't cause your computer to "stick up" even after playing it for hours on end. The graphics and sounds are like real life and it is really amazing how a game with such good graphics and sounds doesn't cause your computer to freeze after extended play. The only "con" I see in this game is that it is very time consuming and in many scenarios Caesar's demands seem impossible to met. You either have runned out of space or don't have enough money.
However, if you think you're a pro when it comes to strategy games, then I highly recommend you to buy "The Empires Collection".

Pharaoh is the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played Pharaoh since it came out. It really is the only PC game that I have returned to, many times over many years. It's insanely addictive, so I try not to start playing except during summer. Once I start, I'm locked in until I have to start teaching again in the Fall.
If you get hooked on this game, be sure to go on line to Pharaoh Heaven on the Heaven Games site (at http://pharaoh.heavengames.com/). A few of the past grand masters of this game (with names like Brugle, TryHard, and VitruviusAIA) still monitor the site to offer excellent tips to beginning players. I actually loved the game enough to devote the time to figuring out the algorithm that governs about 90% of the behavior of the supposedly "random" walkers in the game. If you want to see the fruits of my efforts, look for the most recent posts from StephAmon related to Ambulomancy.
Whether or not you become as obsessed with a particular aspect of the game as I did, I have difficulty seeing how most people could fail to fall in love with Pharaoh and its expansion pack, Cleopatra (also included in the Great Empires Collection).
Windows XP users have no fear, I've got Pharaoh+Cleo running under XP. I make no guarantees about Vista, however, due to lack of experience.

good city sims

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

cleopatra and pharo are some of my favorite city sims. I found ceaser 3 chunky and hard to play. But getting 3 games in one is a great value. Get ready to lose some major time here!! A good value.

Caesar and the others

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Caesar 3 and the others are very adicting . I warn you if you have a job you need to schedule your play on the weekends. Caesar in particular can consume all of your attention for days.

If you have Children. Make sure they do thier home work first and don't play on a night when they have a test or something in the morning. These games are very adicting.

But are quite a bit of fun.

I think we need to add an Adicted to the Caesar game.

if your system can't play these games consider Caesar 2 as it will run even in DOS.

A Good Game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: January 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought it was a good game to play. I enjoyed the graphics but gameplay overall was a bit sketchy. I felt at times as if the game was taking control of me. But once I got the hang of it this game really gave new meaning to addictive. I almost had to throw the game away to stop playing! This game overall is a great game to play and i enjoyed it.

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