Pharaoh (Jewel Case)

by Sierra Studios

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00006FXDV
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,439 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #49 in Video Games > PC Games > Arcade
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best game in my collection!, May 6, 2005

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Alicia Harnois "Cerrita" (Palouse, Washington) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pharaoh (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I've had this game for years, almost as long as I've had my computer, and I still play it! It's challanging, but not frustrating or complicated, and I spend hours designing city layouts and constructing huge monuments. It's a challange to create the most efficent city I can, and that's what keeps me playing. Sure, it's not a high-stakes, shoot-'em-up game, it's a good, clean game for all ages, and I recommend it highly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great City building game., July 1, 2011

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Stephen G. Knapp "Havan_Ironoak" (NYC, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pharaoh (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I started playing this after playing Caesar III and the similarities are marked. Most of the same challenges exist and yet this game is fun and worth the time & effort to play.

I recently istalled it in a Windows 7 environment after playing it on a Windows XP machine for years and it runs even better on the Windows 7 platform.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This game is the reason I started playing strategy games, September 23, 2010

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Marius F. "MIRR" (Burnt Scrotum, Norway) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pharaoh (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

And I've been doing it ever since. My dad bought me this in the spring of 2000. To cut to the chase, this game is about building cities in ancient Egypt. In my opinion, the fun in playing games is about doing things that you can't do in real life, and city-building in ancient Egypt is a good example of one of those things. You will start by building some humble cottages and maybe even a well for your people. You will have to provide food, water, entertainment, health care etc., and as you do so, your city will evolve. If you need more money, you can build a tax collectors office. You decide how much tax the people are going to pay. Low tax will make you poor but popular (at least for a while), and high tax will make you richer but less popular. But then again, money is needed to make the city better. As your city gets bigger and better, you might even consider building the ultimate construction in the game: The Pyramid(!) If you're not interested in history now, I almost guarantee you will be after playing this game. I can't think of a game that has given me more hours of fun than this. Oh wait, the other games in Sierra's City Building series actually have: "Caesar", "Caesar II", "Caesar III", "Caesar IV", "Master of Olympus - Zeus", "Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom" are all made with this same great city-building-recipe as Pharaoh. All highly recommended (including expansions). The other games I listed are set in Rome (Roman Empire), Greece and China respectively.