Product Description

Players of Caesar 3 are immersed in a city set in the age of the ancient Roman Empire. Players place buildings on previously empty terrain and construct a city. These buildings come to life, and the city begins to evolve. As the city grows, it encounters various problems that must be overcome. Players have specific objectives to achieve, although many players will choose not to use these and will be content to design their idea of the perfect city.

The game is structured as a career, beginning with a training mission, then progresses through a series of ever-tougher real assignments. Each mission/assignment consists of a province and set objectives. Achieving these objectives will result in promotion and an offer of a tougher assignment, which can be turned down if the player is having too much fun to accept at that time.

The career progression introduces elements of the game step by step, thereby teaching players how to play without forcing them to play through a tutorial.

There is also an option where players ignore the career progression and simply play the full game with no promotion involved.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13508 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sierra
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 95

Amazon.co.uk Review
Take SimCity, set it in the Roman Empire and welcome to Caesar III. This historical civilisation-building simulation gives you the opportunity to progressively develop a settlement in a different atmosphere from the plethora of modern sim games. Caesar III is strikingly similar to Pharaoh with the gameplay and controls following the same rules.

With a useful tutorial, it doesn't take long to master the controls of Caesar III. As your settlement grows and you complete the tasks set by Rome, more options become available to you, such as building a colosseum and other Roman treasures. The little historical quirks are what makes this game so addictive--you never really know what is going to happen next.

Fiscal management and town planning are crucial to success in the strategy sim; you must plan your water supplies and protect your houses from fire risks and structural failure. Once seated in your senate, and consulting your advisors, you control all aspects of life in your growing population, whilst winning the favour of Rome.

Caesar III only requires minimal processing power, which offers a distinct advantage to those of us running older machines. The downside of this is that it cannot compete with more modern sim games, but the game is still highly playable and strangely addictive. Caesar III is an interesting twist on the sim market--the simple controls and the theme will be especially suitable to younger game generals. --Chris Hall

Customer Reviews

Greatest Game Going
This game came with my computer and I didn't have any kind of expectations for it, but as soon as I played it I was captured. It starts kinda easy and builds up into a fascinating game that you just want to excel at. You are the governor of various cities and Caesar hands you various objectives to accomplish before you can gain promotion in career mode. You build everything from basic roads to glorious colosseums and hippodromes as you try to make your citizens happy. There are four ratings that you must achieve the set goals for - prosperity, peace, favour and a fourth that I can't remember right now because I'm plastered, but basically it's the one where you have lots of things like libraries and theatres and suchlike. Anyway, prosperity is the hard one, because these romans like to live in hovels, but some of them prefer to evolve into palace dwellers, but they won't do so until you provide amenities and better living conditions. It is such a cool game, I think it comes on Packard Bell computers as standard in the U.K. at the moment. Once you get into the swing of it you can't stop playing it and as such the woman in the house gives you stick for playing caesar all day every day. My advice, kick her out and play caesar - to hell with her and her incessant nagging.

Great for the patient!
This was one of the first PC games I ever played and as such it's had quite a big impact on me. Your mission is to rise up the rungs of the (at times slippery) Roman career ladder by succeeding as a govener in increasingly challenging provinces. You build you population, serve their needs, fight battles, appease the gods, and sometimes the emperor.
Its gameplay is very similar to the other Sierra city-building games (especially Pharoah), however it is both harder and somehow less interesting than the more recent ones such as Master of Olympus.
Going back to it recently I thought' Oh, this'll be easy, I know this game, i'm older and much better at gaming by now' I WAS WRONG. If there is some genius that actually managed to finish this game without cheating, i bow down to you, however with only the career mission or 'city builder' (an open objective game) this game can be both frustrating and dull. Although some will say this os part of the exciting challenge, it is EXTREMELY annoying when, just as you're trying to build up your army against the imminent attack, you lose 1,000 citizens because there's a shortage in furniture or pottery (honestly, this happened to me!)
Despite all this, i would recommend getting this game, especially at the cheap prices you find on this site. It is a laugh and has a really cute feel, however i would recommend playing it witha friend to avoid the deep boredom that can occur!