Caesar 3

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Summary: Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
Review: One of the better entries in the city-building genre. Where the SimCity series is open-ended, Caesar III provides a career path in which the player must achieve certain goals to get promoted to the next level. That makes it a little more engaging than simply constructing buildings for the heck of it, which can also be done in City Construction mode, but it also contains the game's biggest flaws. A player's progress is measured in a ratings system: Culture, Prosperity, Peace, and Favor with Caesar. While certain aspects of the city improve quite logically, the Prosperity rating moves slowly and will likely induce boredom in the most patient player. I got halfway through the levels before the tedium really set in. Building and re-building for hours, simply to raise the Prosperity score a couple points, got to be too much. Still, the game succeeds on many other points: graphics, music, sound effects, and animation. The Roman streets are teeming with life and are quite enjoyable to watch. I don't know of another game where one gets to build a colosseum, temples, aqueducts, and other impressive Roman statues, watch chariot races, import vines into wine workshops, export casks of olive oil, grow wheat and pig farms, maintain a shipping fleet, and send out legionnaires against invading barbarians. You'll need the manual, which is attractive, helpful, and not too daunting. More help can be found through onscreen help and the counsel of your advisors. Caesar III can be fun and involving. I wish it had held my interest enough for me to ascend the higher levels and finish it.

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Summary: Very addictive
Review: Starting, building, and refining your city can easily use up a Saturday afternoon and evening. My only complaint is in the difficulty of the scenarios with battles. Eventually, an enemy will show up that's twice as strong as your forces, and once their routed, you might as well quit the game because nothing can save your city. Building cities in peaceful areas is much more fun.

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Summary: Do it entirely yourself.
Review: The sim people here are as stupid as sim people everywhere and they'll complain no matter what you do. I find it best to set up a province myself and not play one of the pre-designed settings because they just don't seem to go as well. One of the coolest aspects of the game is the wolves -- I've done so well in cities before that I'll connect the mainland to other areas which has wolves and just watch the wolves attack. Its pretty funny and the little skeletons are cute. But human enemies attacking can be serious so be prepared!

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Summary: Do it entirely yourself.
Review: The sim people here are as stupid as sim people everywhere and they'll complain no matter what you do. I find it best to set up a province myself and not play one of the pre-designed settings because they just don't seem to go as well. One of the coolest aspects of the game is the wolves -- I've done so well in cities before that I'll connect the mainland to other areas which has wolves and just watch the wolves attack. Its pretty funny and the little skeletons are cute. But human enemies attacking can be serious so be prepared!

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Summary: Great Game!
Review: This game is an amazing skill game, loaded with cool graphics and realistic scenes. I really recommend it!

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Summary: even better tan the first two
Review: this game is awsome it has great graphics and sound. it is the best sierra game I've played (even beter than all the incredible machine games I played).

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Summary: ALL HAIL CAESAR..I mean ME..NO...WAIT....
Review: this game rules. muff said. I got it when it came out and it had the elements of SIM city, warcraft and civilization that I was looking for. I mean C'mon, you can build a colliseum! you can train lion tamers. YOU CAN ASPIRE TO BE CAESAR! this game looks good and plays clean. you have ca campaign mode with strategy and then you can just build a city. no plot, just get down and dirty prosperous. this is one that captured me like I hadnt expected. give it a go. it rocks!

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Summary: This is my most favorite computer game ever!
Review: This is a really fun game! I got it because I like Ancient civilizations and I thought that it would be fun to play a game based on Ancient Rome. I was not disappointed! I even learned about some gods I hadn't know of before, and the game was fun to boot. It starts out on something of a tutorial, were you are the governor of a city and to be promoted to a better city, you have to meet certain requirements, such as prosperity and peace ratings. Sometimes you are required to give Caesar an urgent shipment of olive oil or wine, and if you don't, he gets mad at you. The graphics for this game are fun and pretty good quality. The only problem with this game is that level 8 is almost impossible to pass, so I have never made it to the end of this game. But it is fun just to play anyway. All and all, I would recommend this game to anyone.

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Summary: All Roads Lead to Rome
Review: This is a wonderful game. It is a ton of fun and you can set the level of difficulty. I only played the demo, so there must be even better stuff in the game.

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Summary: still engrossed after 6 months...
Review: Well, I guess this is a keeper, because I bought it last fall and I'm still working my way through it! This is a great title if you're tired of all the bangbangs that make you check your higher neural functions at the door; it takes real work to keep the tiny Romans happy, and before you know it, it's Thursday. I'm on the very last mission now, and I'm trying to make it last because to my vast disappointment reports are that Sierra has cancelled the Mac port of its similar title 'Pharaoh'. Oops, gotta go, my patricians are complaining about the Bread and Circuses again...