I don't play computer games a lot, but there are some games that are too great not to play. One of them is Caesar III. A 1998 game with fascinating graphics and sounds, but above all, the best gameplay I've ever experienced. The game remains rather difficult, even if there isn't a single secret for you about it anymore. There are also numerous ways of expanding your city or winning a scenario; it truly is the best city builder game I have ever known.

 

Those of you that have already played one of the previous Caesar games will all agree that it was and actually still is a fantastic game, old as it may be. Now, this summer, Caesar IV will be released; definately something to look forward to for all city builder games fans.

 

 

 

Here's a few things you should know about Caesar if you haven't got a clue what it is:

 

 

 

Official Website[/url]":2dlc0s39]Hail Caesar! The best selling city builder series returns. CaesarÃÆââââ¬Ã¾Ãââ IV takes the ancient city builder to the next generation with leading edge graphics and expanded control over the Roman Empire. Developed by the award winning creators of CaesarÃÆââââ¬Ã¾Ãââ III and PharaohÃÆââââ¬Ã¾Ãââ, CaesarÃÆââââ¬Ã¾Ãââ IV is sure to please the masses.

 

 

 

Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar. As governor, you will have total control over your province: including city planning, finances, and defenses. As you succeed you will be given new challenges in other provinces within the Roman Empire ultimately ending in the heart of the empire: Rome.

 

 

 

Caesar IV represents the culmination of more than a decade of development experience in the city builder genre making it the definitive ancient city builder.

 

 

 

some beautiful in game screenshots

 

 

 

Looks very promising to say the least! This game will most likely become my favourite game of all time.

I have caesar III, and love it! Even now, if my internet is down and I'm bored, it is one of teh first games I pop in. When I was younger I didn't entirely understand it, and usually lost all my money in the 2nd or 3rd, which led to an angry caesar sending his troops after me :oops: . This kept me away from the game for a while, but once I was older, and read the manual and understood all teh conepts, I was absolutely obsessed.

 

I also love playing with the cheat codes from it. Use the infinte money cheat to build the army to the max, then baricade your city with row upon row of walls, gates, and those shooty thingys. After that, you can either try and go against the roman empire by making caesar mad, or use a different cheat to send in literally thousands of barbarians!

 

All in all, it was a great game, with a nice balance of fun and realism. I will surely buy this next game, and eagerly await what new fun it has instore.

I have caesar III, and love it! Even now, if my internet is down and I'm bored, it is one of teh first games I pop in. When I was younger I didn't entirely understand it, and usually lost all my money in the 2nd or 3rd, which led to an angry caesar sending his troops after me :oops: . This kept me away from the game for a while, but once I was older, and read the manual and understood all teh conepts, I was absolutely obsessed.

 

I also love playing with the cheat codes from it. Use the infinte money cheat to build the army to the max, then baricade your city with row upon row of walls, gates, and those shooty thingys. After that, you can either try and go against the roman empire by making caesar mad, or use a different cheat to send in literally thousands of barbarians!

 

All in all, it was a great game, with a nice balance of fun and realism. I will surely buy this next game, and eagerly await what new fun it has instore.

 

 

 

You can actually earn tons of money without cheating too :) Just make sure your city had at least an 80% tax coverage, also try to max your Grand Insulae (the best houses for working class people) and don't let them evolve to aristocrats, keep them working. When you have that many working people, sell all the pottery, oil, and most importantly, weapons you can sell.

 

I still have a city with 25,000 inhabitants, almost all of the houses are Grand Insulae and there's just a small neighbourhood with approx. 1,500 aristocrats living as wealthy as you can imagine :) They've got those Luxury Palaces as their homes, beautiful!

I used to play the game lots. I'm not sure if IV will match III though. I liked III because it was it was relativley easy to get into and didn't need a brilliant computer to play it on.

 

 

 

One thing that really annoyed me though was when you ran out of memory space and it said you couldn't build anymore.

 

 

 

I will probably end up getting IV because I enojoyed III so much.

Has everything to be a great game, and I'm surely getting it. :)

 

The only thing that might ruin it is if the developers make the same mistake the Age III made: care too much about the graphics, forgetting the strategy and the gameplay.

 

If they keep the same gameplay and improve the graphics, it'll much likely be a great game, and a huge success. :D

Yeah, I'm also a little afraid that programmers are so widely enthousiast about the new possibilities good computers now offer, that they're forgetting that a game firstly needs to be entertaining and something worth playing.

I really liked the city-building aspects of Caesar III, although I never really got involved in military missions. Pharaoh was great too, although the entertainment value of the largely improved industrial system was somewhat neutered by the demand put on it by the monument requirements that were put into almost every mission.