Caesar 3

List Price: $14.95 Discount Price: $1.79

Features:

• Build a better Rome. Create, rule, and defend a Roman city of your design. Defend against Barbarian hordes.
• Expand Rome's legendary network of roads, open trade routes
• A wide variety of terrain and an all-new intuitive interface
• Features real-time strategic challenges with rich, detailed graphics, enhanced music, and sound effects
• [Windows 95/98/Me/XP]

Customer Reviews:

Fun. Frustrating. [Posted on 2007-06-12]
This is a game you can play for an hour without feeling like your IQ's been lowered. The gameplay itself is much different than the standard strategy game ie..build such a building to get such a resource or advantage, then build up an army and attack.

Instead Ceasar is more like a puzzle game. Think Sim City meets Lemmings. And I must say Lemmings because the citizens are so stupid. If a market is around a corner they houses near it may not recognize it. Entertainment is only valid for houses in the immediate vicinity..so in other words you have to build a bunch of mini cities on each map to get fully developed houses. The real trick to this game is literally trying to figure out where to build more so that what to build.

But the fact that houses won't utilize resources that are so nearby is frustrating, and also that your soliders seem to lose morale for no apparant reason and will refuse to defend your city because they are "too terrified to move". So you have to helpless watch as invaders destroy your carefully crafted city. I'm sure there is a reason for it actually, but I don't have a manuel.

Brilliant! [Posted on 2007-06-19]
This game is sheer brilliance in PC gaming. The layout is intuitive, the gaming viewscreen attractive yet not ridiculously complex. The game itself has as much depth as the time you are willing to invest. You can focus only on the main objectives, or you can build villas and palaces, import/export goods to please your wealthy patricians and to finance your empire. I played this game when I was very young and was able to grasp the concepts well enough to get fairly far into the campaign. Now, of course, new historical dimensions are added to my gameplay experience.

Because of the content, those of any age are invited to learn something of how the Roman Empire was built and run. City management experience is great, with employment/unemployment, government and taxes, wages, relations with the Emperor, financial management, natural resources including raw goods such as marble, clay, wood, and iron as well as water, armed forces, defenses, amenities, entertainment, religion, food, agriculture, fire prevention - all these and more play a part in the Caesar III experience. Really a great buy, I have enjoyed over a hundred hours of gameplay easily.

one of the coolest games ever... [Posted on 2007-11-02]
call me crazy but I prefer this game over age of empires and all others. It is simple and a whole lotta fun. I have "wasted" many hours in this game and I don't regret it at all.

Great game and Great Service [Posted on 2008-01-07]
Great, fun strategy game. My original disc was cracked, but the seller sent me a new one pronto. great service!

Best city simulation game ever! [Posted on 2008-06-01]
I've played the sims and I know it is valued higher than Caesar 3 and that this game was kind of built on the principles learned from those games but somehow these guys have made an excellent presentation with eye pleasing graphic images, town sounds, people sound and all the rest that, for me this is a better game. It can keep you engaged for hours at a time as you tweak and evolve your city into the most prosperous, cultured, peaceful and favourable city in all of the Roman empire. I've played this game 3 times over and I never get tired of it! It is a must have with anyone interested in city building! Also if you have enough patience you can get to learn a great deal about the history of the cities of the Roman empire.

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