Customer Reviews

Pharaoh (Jewel Case)

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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.

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.

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.

I love this game and have loved in since it first came out. You start with simple city building and pretty straightforward missions. WIth each leve it gets more complicated as you manage various areas of the city you build, run the goventment and keep enemies at bay.

This is a game I will start playing and realize hours have passes as I try to keeep the Egyptian Gods appeased while staving off Malairia and buliding my mastaba before the palace treasure goes broke.

You can play missions or enjoy all sorts of free play levels as well. If you enjoy this type of game, this one is great. My kids enjoy this one as well, as it is easy to understand and play.

This is an excellent city building game with a great Egyptian theme. Good progression in difficulty so that you don't get frustrated with the game. You start out managing a small village to create mega cities with their own wonder(s). The game produces walkers that give you feed back on your city such as such and such god might be unhappy or hey my market is overflowing with luxery items. You can click on the houses to see what is holding their development up. You can do overlays showing property value, distribution of goods and other such information. You create a trading empire managing where your goods go and what goods you are importing in for your citizens.

I can't tell you how the game was, because we did not receive the one we ordered. This was my second attempt to purchase this game from Amazon and
both times we received the wrong game. It was very disappointing.

This is an older game. I enjoyed then and enjoy it now. This is a GREAT "God-style" strategy game from the '90's

A combination of Caesar III, Sid Miers Civilizations and Maxis' Sim City games from the late nineties, Pharaoh takes a lot of what made those games best sellers and combines it into a pretty entertaining, if at this point dated, game. Back in the 90s, "God" style games in which you care for and manage a teeming world of buildings and their denizens were having their hay-day.

While Maxis continued to churn out the Sim City franchise, and Civilizations and it's many spin offs have become legend, most games are not either FPS (First Person Shooters) or RTS (Real Time Strategy). The 90s produced some exceptional top-down city management games, and Pharaoh is a good example. Unfortunately, just like the Egyptian empire that you play in the game, poised at its height of glory, this style of game has fallen largely to the wayside. That's unfortunate.

A city management game at heart, Pharaoh gives you much more control over what you build and where you build it than Sim City games. You choose which buildings you want, and where they will be built, allowing you to create a city to your exact design.

War making does come into play, but it is secondary to city building. Many of the missions will require you to create an army and lead them to victory, but this feels largely anticlimactic compared to the fast paced city management that requires 80 percent of your time.

This game is quite complex, entertaining, and truly a classic of the genre. If you're considering buying it, there are other options like Caeser III, but I think this is a superior game. If you like strategy games from the 90s, this ones definitely for you.

This game was a great buy! You can create your own scenarios or go through an entire family history up until you are Pharaoh. You can name your own family, too. Easy to understand interface and you can change the speed of the game as well. It was great fun to see Egypt develop over time with each generation. Also, appeasing the gods was fun..if you didn't build enough temples/shrines, they would get all jealous or angry, and cause calamity to fall upon your city. It's just another great city building game!!

Very interesting not too difficult to learn. Bought it back when I was in college to pass the time