Pharaoh

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Summary: An excellent citybuilding game
Review: Pharaoh is an excellent citybuilding game, much like Caesar III, but better because it is ancient Egypt and not Rome. Made by the same company, Sierra, the game is complex and challenging as well. You must juggle many aspects of a city: from Healthcare and Education, to Food Production and and Religion. Add to that some Egyptian monuments, a few plauges and armies, a dash of city life, and you have Pharaoh. I highly recommend this game to all who are tired of gathering resources, producing armies, and conquering the world through military might; those who could use a little citybuilding. This game is the best.

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Summary: Play the demo
Review: 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.

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Summary: A great game
Review: This is undoubtedly one of the greatest games I have ever played. If you haven't bought it yet, where have you been? It's a combination of Age of Empires and Sim City 3000. If you've heard of it, it's a Caesar 3 clone. However, I always personally found Egypt much more interesting than Rome, so I enjoyed this game alot more. The game is pretty meticulous, but I love those kind of games. Buy "Pharaoh" right now if you're an RTS fan!

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Summary: The best city building game yet
Review: I have to say this is my favorite game. The graphics are terrific, the music isn't annoying, the cutscene animations are marvelous, and i haven't stayed up till 4 in the morning to play a game since i can remember. The accomplishment you feel when you complete a pyramid is quite remarkable. The game is so much fun and has so many great features you could play the game for weeks straight and still not get bored.

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Summary: Addictive, better than Caesar III!
Review: This game is great. It has tons of re-playability and just the right amount of micro-management. The goals are more able to be accomplished, and Pharoah demands less than the Emperor ;)Anyway, this game is better than Caesar III and I expect it just may become a city building classic too.

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Summary: A great game
Review: Pharoah is a game in witch you can build cities and create a mighty empire. This game is not like a Age of Empire and in a way it takes more skill to play. You will become addicted to this game and I would Highly recommend it to everybody.

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Summary: Don't Have Second Thoughts On This Game!
Review: I, for one, loved this game. I have played this into all hoursof the night and was hooked. Most of the game is based on realevents, also. And, you can move up in rank (village elder-pharaoh) or play custom missions. It can teach great orginizational skills and unselfishness. Don't pass up this game! Just keep the gods happy and have an army if you need one! END

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Summary: 6 stars!Excellent!
Review: I loved Pharaoh.Once again,Sierra brings us an amazing game!

Build kingdoms and unleash the power of Pharaoh. Talk to your citizens and improve your cities. Build monuments and strengthen your armies in the fight to become Pharaoh.

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Summary: Pharaoh review
Review: Pharaoh is a great strategy game. It takes a while to figure out what all the icons do (because they're Egyptian symboles)but other than that its easy to catch on. I havnt beat the game yet but it is loooong. Though there is only one campaign it gets pretty difficult. I hear theres an expansion pack coming out soon and that will make it even better. If you have lots of time and patience this games for you.

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Summary: Pharaoh lets you live forever... and you may need to!
Review: Where, oh where to begin? I dug Caesar III to the point where it caused me to lose sleep and affect my health. Being a huge fan of Egyptian history, I was salivating for months while Impressions developed Pharaoh.

I was not disappointed. The graphics, while not your latest 3D-Accelerated Zing-Boom flavor, are slick and very nice to look at. The gameplay is all we remember from the Citybuilding series, plus a bunch of new surprises. There are many differences in the way you build a Roman city vs. an Egyptian city, and it's refreshing to see that Pharaoh goes for accuracy in the little details. This is a detail-oriented game, after all. Floodplain farming, the lack of groundwater in the desert and monument building are some of the interesting differences between Pharaoh and Caesar III. Management of religion is improved somewhat, though I still find myself constructing "temple row" somewhere out of the way just to make sure all the gods are equally appeased.

The biggest stumbling block, ironically, is also Pharaoh's greatest triumph: the accurate and detailed process it takes to build monuments. You don't just say "Oh, I wanna build a pyramid" and plunk it down. No, first you must build the infrastructure; guilds must cut and lay stone, peasants must prepare the build site and haul stone. Carpenters must build ramps, etc etc. The process of building a pyramid is excellent, and most fun to watch... when it goes as planned.

Unfortunately, the damn things take FOREVER to build! You may have met all your victory requirements for a given mission four hours previous, but you're stuck waiting for that Pyramid to build. Sometimes carpenters just don't come build the ramps, and your stone haulers are left stacked up waiting to deposit their loads (that stuff gets heavy after a few months!).

Game lengths aside, Pharaoh is as fun and addicting as any strategy game I've played, and the city-building style is always a refreshing change from the "Gather>Build Units>Destroy Enemy" formula that most RTS games employ. In Pharaoh, if you don't make your city work, or plan, or listen to your people, you'll be one unhappy city manager.

This game rocks