Pharaoh Gold

by SOLD-OUT SOFTWARE

Product Details

• ASIN: B000C05XRI
• Item Weight: 1 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,039 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

This package contains Pharaoh + its Official Expansion pack Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile.  3000 Years of Egypt rolled into one classic package.

Pharaoh:

Impressions Games, creators of the award-winning Caesar III, take you farther back in time with this stunning strategic city-building game set in the mysterious and beautiful land of the Nile. Welcome to ancient Egypt.

Grow thriving cities in the desert and see the economy and inhabitants come to life. Interact with your citizens; observe their culture, their habits and learn from them. 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 grandest Egyptian monuments will be built in your honor. Bring your dynasty through the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms of Egypt towards the grandest goal - a Pharaoh of your royal blood.

The Nile is a fickle friend. Pay careful attention to its flooding to avoid the devastating effects of drought and famine.

Defend your city from other ancient cultures, such as the Canaanites or Hittites. Battle on land or water with powerful war galleys.

Be sure to interact with your citizens. Scribes, Scholars, Priests, Embalmers and more will inform you on how wisely you rule.

Behold, the Grandest Civilization of All Time Is Yours to Command

Never has a City Building game been so impressive. You play as a dynasty - working over centuries towards having the greatest monuments of all time built in your honor. For in ancient Egypt, Pharaoh is the name revered above all.

• Build the grandest, most realistic monuments ever seen brick by brick, including The Great Pyramids, The Sphinx and more.
• Govern all aspects of the exotic Egyptian culture, from worshipping gods and embalming the dead to trading with distant cities.
• Defend against invasions on land and water. Build armies and fleets to protect

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great all ages game!, January 16, 2007

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4DaBirds (Beautiful Southern Colorado) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pharaoh Gold (Video Game)

We had purchased this game several years ago,but the disc became too scratched to use. We ended up rebuying it because it truly is a family favorite.

In the original Pharaoh game, one uses logic to plan, build, and manage increasingly more complex Egyptian cities. The cities must include a means to feed and shelter the inhabitants, industry, entertainment, goverment services, educational services, and religious facilities. You keep a delicate balance between spending too much money (going into debt) and not enough money (not providing the services/facilities/jobs necessary to keep your inhabitants happy). While it seems relatively simple, it's not always an easy balance to strike.

As you progress further into the game, you must not only keep your inhabitants happy, but you must also develope foreign relations, trade routes, and prepare for war.

Cleopatra is the expansion pack for the Pharaoh series.

Overall, our family enjoys this game, and it is one of the few that they have come back to over and over for years. As a parent, I appreciate that this game requires a great deal of thought and patience to beat. The graphics, while not as quality as games produced today, are not so dated as to make the game unappealing. The graphics are the main reason we gave the game a 4 - otherwise, we like it enough to give it a 5.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

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Brian Long "Brian" (Ogden, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Pharaoh Gold (Video Game)

This is the kind of game that you'll initially sit down at, after playing for ten minutes remark "This is stupid. I'll go till the end of this stage then its in the dumpster." then find yourself playing and realize its 2am next Thursday. The missions are entertaining, the citybuilding aspect is intuitive and surprisingly complicated to master, and the system its all based on, whhile frustrating at times, is easy to work with.

Gameplay: 9/10. The setup is the same as any city building/Sim City design, with more foucs obviously on the nuts and bolts of running a city. You have to create a good balance between residence and industry, keep them close together without sacrificing appeal, and still keep enough space and people to run all of your services and buildings. And keep a good, strong armed force. A couple points fall through the cracks that are annoying, and when you stumble upon them you'd wish the game had mentioned them, but those are few and far between.

Story/Audio: 10/10. The voices of the citizens are amusing and actually very helpful in determining what your cities problems are, if any exist. The narration is accurate to time frame and history, as far as I'm aware, and follows the rise and fall of the kingdom. While it would've been nice to have more mission audio, what little there is still manages to be very entertaining.

Graphics: 7/10: Being as far along as technology is, most people will frown at these. Bear in mind how old the game is, and its not too terrible a flaw for an otherwise fantastic game. The best part is considering your system is probably a 1.5 - 3.5 GHz, 2 Gb RAM setup, this game is so compact and streamlined it'll run smoother than your screensaver.

Overall: 9.5/10. I picked this back up after I stopped playing almost 6 years ago. A game with that kind of staying power is impressive. The history and involvement the game has is incredible, and while it'll get repetitive by the end, until you start to get sick of it, you'll be hopelessly addicted.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars yes, it does work with Vista., March 30, 2009

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Claire J. - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pharaoh Gold (Video Game)

I have the old, original discs for Pharaoh and Cleopatra. I have always loved this game, and when I got a new PC with Vista I was concerned that it wouldn't play. I had lost track of my Cleopatra disc, but finally found it a few days ago and decided to see if it would install and play on my new computer.

To my pleasant surprise, it did install and plays just fine. No crashes, no bugs, no glitches at all. The game plays just like it did on my old computer, and it's just as fun as I remember.