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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.

Compelling and fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: January 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A great three-pack. Two games, with the extension to Pharoah. The games are pretty much non-violent, city-building god-games, and you are required to consider most aspects of a city-state (trade, population, religion, foreign wars, diplomacy) to survive. It's also quite safe for children - I'm happy with my 5-yr-old playing alone. No ugly graphics, no commercialism, no junk americana voices and great gameplay. Caesar is just different enough to the Egyptians to pull you in, but similar enough to share some techniques.

All-in-all, probably the cheapest entertainment around.

game rocks

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

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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.

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...

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.

Great Simulation!! Get This Game, But........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My favorite type of game is simulation, and when I saw this one, I got it. I comes with three great Sims. Caesar, Pharaoh and the Pharaoh expansion. All three games are great, and here is a little info of each.

First Caesar III, the sequal to Caesar II. Rule a Roman empire! Obey the gods and you recieve blessings, don't and face certain doom. Treat your plebs, build houses, forts, walls, granarys, and water systems. Fight distant enemies with your legions. Gain a good reputation and achieve emperor status. Will your empire crumble are succeed. You decide, be an emperor the the gods will loke up to!

Pharaoh is the game coming after Caesar III. It has the same game fell as Caesar, but instead of Rome you control Egypt. Train Egyption armies to fight enemies. Get food by fishing, growing reeds in the Nile and sending hunters to fetch food. Obey the gods, and build monuments that will stand for ages. Manufacture goods to ship across and the lands and make money.

Finally, the expansion extends the gameplay for Pharaoh a lot farther. You can make more goods like paint and oil and also construct larger monments like tombs and pyrimids.

Overall, I like these games a lot, but the reason I gave 4 stars is because the more things you make, the slower the game gets. Sometimes, you can make so many buildings that it runs out of memory and the game freezes. But if you like sims, get this!

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

Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My wife and I both have to share the computer to play this game and while one plays the other looks over the others shoulder. Watching is almost as fun as playing.This was the first computer game we ever bought and have found it to be exactly what we wanted from a game. It will take years to finish this game but knowing that doesnt add any rush to playing .It has a fine tutorial that teaches you where the game controls are and a MANUAL OF THE OLD FASHION >>>> A BOOK . I hate pdf file game manuals as they cost the price of a printer cartridge to print it . This game has the book included.Addictive and fun???? Better have plenty of time and set a timer that tells you that you have reached your 12 hour limit as we have pulled allnighters playing this game and still werent finished nor bored .One more thing , we have yet to find or even have heard of a game that entertains as much as this one . Great game for serious gamers or those that are looking for their first one , and please take the time to read the manual. Have fun .

As sims go, they're tops.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: March 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this set for Christmas and I love it. I've gone a few weeks here and there without playing with the games but I always seem to return.

There are four CDs in the pack, three games and a preview CD. The best of the pack is Caesar III, of course. It's tight and runs beautifully and once you begin to get the hang of the game you find the real challenges are only beginning.

I've played Pharaoh and its expansion less because I find the UI on them a little clunky. Don't get me wrong--it's beautifully crafted, but less intuitive than the Caeser UI. I also dislike all the minor twiddling you have to do with Pharaoh to keep things running smoothly (but then perhaps I've not played it enough to learn all the secrets there), and don't like the design so much finding it less elegant and more harsh on the eye.

Overall though I think I'll return to these games often, and they're always a great way to spend a little time relaxing.

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