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Summary: Wow!!
Review: What an incredible game! While it is very easy to start playing C3, the game is amazingly intricate and has something to challenge any player. If you are able to make it through the career campaign, then you can check out some of the great fansites on the website for literally hundreds of player-created scenarios.If you are looking for a time machine, this is the game for you! Many times I have sat down in the evening for "just a short session", only to realize a "few minutes" later that the sun was coming up!
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Summary: Fun game
Review: This could be a great game, and it IS a lot of fun, but as an avid Pharoah gamer, it was hard to negotiate the water supply, which uses a series of aquaducts. Other than that, its fun, historical, and a good lesson in economics.
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Summary: wow.what a deal
Review: I was on my way to South Carolina for a weeks vacation. Yeah this is wonderful I mean my buddy is coming were going to pick up some chixs this is great. Then it hits me we are going to be in the car for 16 hours. So were 2 hours in and I convince my dad to pull over so I could get something for my laptop. Well i was lucky my mom forgot some bathing things and you know she cant live without them. So me and my friend buy this and like 4 other 10 dollar games. Guess what this was all we needed we could both play at once because we were just like lets put this there; so on and so forth. Any way the 16hrs flew by and this was and still is my favorite purchase. I mean the game is one of those things where you feel in total control and with the military invasions that occured every once in a generation you were always on your feet building your cities worth to Rome.
Anyway thnks. Peace out
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Summary: fun game, more playing options than demo
Review: I've played the Caesar series since #1 and enjoyed them all. Unlike the other reviewers, I have to say I thought this edition was a little easier. One minor, picky complaint is that they don't use the latin based names for the two kinds of schools as they did in Caesar II. You can choose a course emphasizing military defense or development. I chose mostly defense because it was more fun to watch the barbarians. Game has more than what is just in its demo.
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Summary: get hooked!
Review: This is one game I never tire of. It's challenging and engrossing. There aren't tons of puzzles to work out, it is fairly straightforward on gameplay. This game works for so many age groups and will get those who soon tire of complicated puzzle games on the road to fun!
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Summary: Great! Cool! and Addictive
Review: i never thought i would like a sim game. Butt the the roman setting makes it really cool. I play this game for hours and never get bored. My only concern for the game is that there are many glitches to run into. For instance a guy standing on a plaza and doing the moon walk. Also i had some problems geting goods from warehouses to markets. It took me a while to figure that one out. Overall i think that this a pretty good game. It starts out easy then it gets hard. While playing this game make sure that the gods are happy. hint!hint!
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Summary: Always Wonderfully Addictive
Review: I am not a great gamer, that's not to say that I don't love video games or even that I'm not good at them, but I'm so impatient and fickle that after about a week my devotion wanes and I hardly ever play again. To date there have only been two exceptions to this rule, one of them is of course Caesar III. Over the past few years I have risen to the rank of Caesar several times, ruled over countless independent cities and still my love remains true. If it is ever uninstalled from my computer it gets rediscovered a few weeks later and the whole process is restarted. After all this time it is still my favorite sim game and probably my favorite game of all time.
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Summary: So Addictive, Caesar 3 ROCKS!
Review: It is addictive and great. I always have to do my homework first...I get sucked in so fast. Get it if you want a unique, healthy, work-ethic-damaging "high." It rocks...I love attacking the barbarians...GET IT NOW!!
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Summary: Caesar3-- Still the ultimate Adictive Sim 5 years later
Review: Life in Rome starts out circa 300 BC as a Citizen tasked to found a modest town (Brundisium). To do so you have to manage things well enough to keep the people happy, immigration up, appease the gods, and manage (priorities matter in the game tremendously) resources, especially labor. You then advance to the rank of Clerk and successively those of engineer, archetect, praetor, proconsul, aedile,... etc. by founding new cities, and achieving Caesar's targeted goals based upon (Peace, Prosperity, Favor with Rome, Population, and Culture) for that particular senario. At your second promotion and thereafter, i.e. the third mission, you get to choose between two different new colonies to found, with usually very different types of problems to overcome (taken together, senarios). Thus the advancement ladder is not limited to a sole path and set of fixed senarios. This game consumes you and your spare time. It's a wonderful learning experience, speaking as a almost fity-something parent, and doubly so as a parent of two AD/HD youngsters. It's not a good game for kids below 4th or 5th grade as the necessary trade-offs, alternate solutions necessary, and overall complexity just lead to frustrated children. In that sense, the game is too tough in the even in the early senarios and even in "Very Easy Mode". However, it is definitely a game for a child to grow with and through experiencing! One where you can put yourself together with your kid and share a satisfying bonding experience by working out the strategy together, and letting the kid spend the time implimenting it. Mom's and Dad's -- just how many games lend themselves to that! Of the just under twenty senarios, I've only failed to beat two, but have achieved becoming deiified as the new Caesar, thanks to the dual advancement senario ladder noted above. The two failures have both been because of the sprite limitation (Memory Ceiling)which only affects the most advanced senarios, which is documented on the web site AND Manual (I'd just forgotten about it). Getting around that limit will require a different set of tasking strategies... the actual thrust and crux of the game, so is nothing new playing Caesar III -- that's the actual key to the games attraction and longevity. Each senario forces some adaptation and advancement of your game management techniques. Since the solutions are necessarily customized to the over-riding perameters of the senario, it encourages and requires creative management. It's literally taken a man-month or two of effort to become Caesar spred over 2 or 3 years of entertainment experiences... and I only regret not realizing the memory limit sooner lead to unnecessary frustrations. (I suppose I also reget not knowing about the single cheat code that my youngest dug up off the web just last week sooner... but then I'd never have had the satisfaction of beating up Caesars legions and still advancing to the next rank/colony. Trust me, that was satisfiing in the extremis!) Both the manual and the website mention the memory/sprite ceiling. The website has an upgrade (not a bug fix) to give warnings when the limit is near or reached, so you can avoid this problem. When all is said and done, non-war SIM games are like golf, you really play against yourself for self-improvement. This one is great because you constantly have to rethink your management, and go outside the box. Other great SIMS (SIMCITY, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon II) require far less of that, if any, and that is why if I had to limit myself to a single game, this one would be it! Replaying earlier old senarios is even more fun... the icing on the cake as you can now look back with fresh eyes and a much fuller flexible bag of tricks to breeze past what had been daunting challanges as you mastered new tools and understanding. The more advanced senarios are like the one's early on -- there's never an easy win, you somehow just scrape by within the senarios resources to just manage a win. It certainly keeps me coming back for more! Seven Stars out of Five! And at this price how can you afford not to buy it?
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Summary: I want to be Caesar!...
Review: Totally addictive. Gets very hard in the upper levels since when you start planning your Roman province it's hard to imagine it as a huge thriving city. I've never had the money problems other gamers here describe, but the prosperity requirements at the upper levels are extremely difficult. It's a blast though to watch your city grow and to make it a place where people like to live. In spite of its faults, it's great fun deciding where to build things, what industry to get going first, and how to defend your city. The graphics are beautiful and you get a real sense of appreciation for what it must have been like to live in a city with no cars, movie theaters or telephones. And at [the price], you can't beat the value!
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