Caesar III

by Sierra

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001LCDO
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,794 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac

Amazon.com Review

Challenging gamers to create one of the greatest empires in history, the third installment of the Caesar city building series proves once again that sometimes it's more fun to build a better past than a better future.

You can open Caesar III's City Construction Kit and build a Roman city to your specification, or choose the Career Mode and face challenges assigned to you by Caesar himself. With success comes promotion and wealth, but failure will make you a feature on the lions' lunch menu. Increasing the game's lifespan is a particularly nice touch allowing you to choose either "peaceful" or "dangerous" assignments to match your mood or preferred play style.

As you build colonies on the roads that lead to Rome you must encourage immigration and keep citizens happy. More than just bread and circuses, you balance trade, industry, city planning and deity worship, all while keeping in Caesar's good graces and fending off barbarian hordes. A plethora of animated visual cues show your success, as plebians and patricians noisily bustle about in a rich and lively recreation of Roman times. The tutorial levels might be a little simple, but the solid manual and fantastic in-game help should keep aspiring megalomaniacs crying "vene, vidi, vici" for hours on end. --Jack Gardiner

Amazon.com Product Description

From the makers of the award-winning Caesar 2 comes a simulation combining the strategy of building, maintaining, and defending a thriving Roman city with the elements that make long-term playing fun. Caesar 3 includes richer graphics, new terrain sets, more progressive career structures, an intuitive interface, one-level game play, and visual feedback. The effects of the player's actions are immediately visible onscreen. Caesar 3 is sure to engross longtime Caesar fans as well as those new to city building.

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Customer Reviews

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great SimCity type game., November 18, 1999

By 

Christopher Stauffer "Stauffer" (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Caesar III (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Caesar III is a great game if you like the Sim City type city building sim. There is not too much conquest (e.g. Command and Conquer gameplay), as you can only assert direct control over your military units.

The major challenge is to create a stable environment that sims will want to move into and work in. The includes building housing areas, markets, resource collection areas, trading bazaars, etc. If you do a good job, people will move in and work in all your buildings, allowing the city to make more money and grow.

If you are interested in the above, I would highly recommend this game.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Exciting and disappointing, January 28, 2000

By 

Michael Naragon (Helena, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Caesar III (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Before I purchased a copy of C3, I had played a demo of the game and found it very interesting. I'm interested in ancient history and conquest, and the levels provided in the demo I tried were simple, but stimulating, much like the SimCity titles have been. However, when I actually tried the full version, I was disappointed. The first few directives you fulfill for Caesar are interesting and fun and can be challenging for the beginning player. But as I continued on with later missions, I started to get tired of the tedium of maintaining residences, trying to influence house growth, etc. The most fun for me was the warfare aspect of the game... being able to control your own phalanxes of Roman soldiers is a real kick. After several hours of trying to get your prosperity level up one or two points, however, (and this is required to proceed to the next level) even hacking up barbarians and Gauls gets old. So my advice would be to check out the game, but do it with caution. It is an interesting premise, but it definitely needs some tweaking.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ceasar III is a very addicting game... Great fun for Mac., December 14, 1999

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Arthur W. Henrick (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Caesar III (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Dear Readers:

I've had this game for 5 weeks now...spent many a night up to 4 in the morning trying to keep out enemy troops (Roman and others) while paying back the Roman emperor. Game is fun for me and my 8 year old daughter. She likes to build a city but does not like the soldiers fighting that much.

You'll need a powerful (G3) or better machine to play this and a large screen (17") or more is highly recommended.

Great game... but my wife will not give it back until all the X-Mass shopping is done!

12/14/99. [e-mail]

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