Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10180 in Video Games
• Brand: Vivendi Universal
• Model: 71198
• Released on: 2000-12-18
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Number of discs: 3
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Includes Caesar III, Pharaoh, and its Cleopatra expansion.

Customer Reviews

Great Simulation!! Get This Game, But........
My favorite type of game is simulation, and when I saw this one, I got it. I comes with three great Sims. Caesar, Pharaoh and the Pharaoh expansion. All three games are great, and here is a little info of each.

First Caesar III, the sequal to Caesar II. Rule a Roman empire! Obey the gods and you recieve blessings, don't and face certain doom. Treat your plebs, build houses, forts, walls, granarys, and water systems. Fight distant enemies with your legions. Gain a good reputation and achieve emperor status. Will your empire crumble are succeed. You decide, be an emperor the the gods will loke up to!

Pharaoh is the game coming after Caesar III. It has the same game fell as Caesar, but instead of Rome you control Egypt. Train Egyption armies to fight enemies. Get food by fishing, growing reeds in the Nile and sending hunters to fetch food. Obey the gods, and build monuments that will stand for ages. Manufacture goods to ship across and the lands and make money.

Finally, the expansion extends the gameplay for Pharaoh a lot farther. You can make more goods like paint and oil and also construct larger monments like tombs and pyrimids.

Overall, I like these games a lot, but the reason I gave 4 stars is because the more things you make, the slower the game gets. Sometimes, you can make so many buildings that it runs out of memory and the game freezes. But if you like sims, get this!

Compelling and fun
A great three-pack. Two games, with the extension to Pharoah. The games are pretty much non-violent, city-building god-games, and you are required to consider most aspects of a city-state (trade, population, religion, foreign wars, diplomacy) to survive. It's also quite safe for children - I'm happy with my 5-yr-old playing alone. No ugly graphics, no commercialism, no junk americana voices and great gameplay. Caesar is just different enough to the Egyptians to pull you in, but similar enough to share some techniques.

All-in-all, probably the cheapest entertainment around.

excellent games... get the newer collection, though...
These are excellent games. But don't buy this collection, buy the newer Great Empires Collection 2. It has the same three games plus two expansions (separate review).

Pharaoh/Cleopatra has a sequel "Children of the Nile" (separate review) and Caesar III will have a sequel Caesar IV (due Fall 2006.)