Best Sellers Series: Pharaoh Cleopatra

by Vivendi Universal

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008OD56
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 4, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,341 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Impressions Games, the creators of the award-winning Caesar III, plunge you farther back in time to the mysterious ancient land of Egypt. Pharaoh is a strategic city-building game set in Egypt roughly 2900 to 700 BC. Grow Egyptian villages into thriving metropolises and watch the economy and inhabitants of this exotic land come to life. Interact with your citizens. Observe their culture and habits. Raise their hopes or raze their homes.

Manage your city poorly and watch it burn, be pillaged or collapse in economic ruin. Manage it well and ultimately the greatest Egyptian structures will be built in your honor. Your rule will span generations, until your dynasty, your royal bloodline produces a Pharaoh!

Pharaoh includes many features never seen before in a City Building series game, including a farming model based on the flooding of the Nile, naval warfare, giant monuments that are assembled over time, a unique dynastic progression, and variable difficulty levels. Uses 16-bit color graphics, large maps for seamless gameplay, and a proven interface.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, July 13, 2004

By 

Patrick (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Sellers Series: Pharaoh Cleopatra (CD-ROM)

This game is incredible and does a wonderful job of recreating ancient Egypt in all its splendor. I only wish that it gave you the possibility of invading neighbouring states instead of just waiting to resist an attack. But a wonderful game nonetheless.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It works., June 8, 2006

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Aliisza (FL, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Best Sellers Series: Pharaoh Cleopatra (CD-ROM)

I started playing this game maybe four or five years ago. My friend told me about it, and I saw it while I was in Target, both Pharaoh and Cleopatra only for 10$. When I brought it home, I was hooked for weeks. Eventually I let a friend borrow it, and then misplaced, so I'm buying a new one, but I'm still hooked, even on the demo!
I was immersed in the fact that I controlled hundreds, and then eventually thousands lives of these people, in ancient Egypt. (My favorite time period.) Every aspect that dealt with controlling the city, water, food, housing, wars, trading, I was in control of and I liked it! Of course there are some things that do become irritating, (such as people going where they're not supposed to, the inefficiencies of the roadblocks) but I realized it was just part of the challenge of the game, being able to build and plan an entire part of a city. The part I enjoyed the most, was that I could build pyramids, such important relics of the time that makes Ancient Egypt stand alone.
For anyone who is a "control freak" or enjoys simulation, strategy, history, and city building games will definitely enjoy Pharaoh and Cleopatra. It's a fun game that can pull you in for hours and lose track of reality. Isn't that what a simulation supposed to do?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's great until you hit the bug that doesn't let you win., February 18, 2007

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lighten_up_already2 "lighten_up_already2" (Kirkland, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Best Sellers Series: Pharaoh Cleopatra (CD-ROM)

All I can say that this is a very fun game for those who are into historical city building sims. I bought it based on reviews and because I have an old Windows 98 machine that I like to buy older games which are very inexpensive but can still be a lot of fun.

It's been great up until episode 9 where I hit a bug that causes the game to refuse to let you win. I've met the criteria for winning by a vast margin, but the game never gives me victory in this episode. This bug is documented elsewhere on the Internet as I've found through a bit of research.

So, now I go and find the patch (the original creator of this game doesn't support it anymore), but I have to join a certain corporate web site and pay a fee for the patch, which kind of offsets the money I saved in the first place.

So, here is another example of a game that who-knows-how many people spent untold hours developing but wasn't worth a few extra hours of end-user testing, so it's got bugs that render it non-playable unless you just love wasting hours watching little graphic people running around an ancient Egyptian city. What a disappointment.