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Caesar 3

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Caesar 3
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Hail Governor, your city awaits.  As a provincial governor charged with spreading the glory of Rome our mission is clear: build cities, foster trade and industry, make money. How you accomplish this is entirely up to you. Gain wealth and power, make a career out of pleasing the emperor, battle Bar...
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1999, Impressions Games, ESRB Rating: Everyone...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c...
Time to beat
35 hMain
55 h Main + Sides
82.5 h Completionist
44 h All Styles
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Description

Hail Governor, your city awaits. 

As a provincial governor charged with spreading the glory of Rome our mission is clear: build cities, foster trade and industry, make money. How you accomplish this is entirely up to you. Gain wealth and power, make a career out of pleasing the emperor, battle Barbarians and repel invaders, or concentrate on building the next Eternal City. Fail and you’ll end up as lunch for the lions. Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar! 
 

  • Build, rule and defend on one screen - a truly intuitive, helpful interface lets you jump right in and start building.
  • Citizens give you a glimpse into the life of the common man – talk to them for clues about how to improve your city.
  • Various new structures and challenges arise throughout your Governor’s career, for tremendous depth of play and replayability.

© 1998 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision is a registered trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.

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manual (219 pages) HD wallpaper reference card avatar
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DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
35 hMain
55 h Main + Sides
82.5 h Completionist
44 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
{{'1999-05-30T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
494 MB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Everyone (Violence, Mild Animated Violence)

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What improvements we made to this game:
Changelog (13 November 2024)
  • Applied the IndirectSound emulator to resolve looping sound and music issues
  • Integrated DDrawCompat for improved system stability on modern PCs
  • Fixed issues with windowed mode, ensuring a smoother user experience
  • Validated stability
  • Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
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Posted on: September 17, 2021

viL0u

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Games: 122 Reviews: 26

Caesar The Third, GOGliostro City

Good old classic from Sierra. This is a very challenging city builder game (Gods, Caesar, climate) and still eye catchy with those pretty graphics. The audio loop and the speed will turn you mad if you don't quickly touch the options. You also cannot do an alt+tab if you want to & the screen resolution options are limited. Overall no mistakes here, its a classic. "Caesar wants some olive oil, now !"


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Posted on: December 28, 2010

SpellingPhailer

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Games: 50 Reviews: 1

Great game eaven for newcomers!

I had, until yesterday, never played this game. I had seen it beeing played, once, by a firend of mine last year, and I was quite intruiged by it. Let's take us back to yesterday. I was on a quest to get Duke Nukem 3D (and got it) and saw this game. As I liked the oldschool strategygames that were more about thinking then clicking the mouse fast, I though that I could at least try it out. And holy damn was it good. From then, until now, I have pretty much played constantly (it's now eavning, 7pm) and I have enjoyed every minute of it. The only thing I need to say to the other newcommers of this game is the following: READ THE MANUAL(it's included with the game)! There's sooo much vital information there that the game never tells you, and if you don't read it, you'll pretty much get you ass handed to you. Shortly speaking: I strongly recomend this game, eaven if it has no nostalgic value to you.


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Posted on: November 29, 2018

Pulsed101

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Games: 252 Reviews: 21

Not your modern sandbox.

This is not your modern sandbox style city builder, Caesar demands perfection. So expect a challenge is all i'm saying :) Requires careful planning, listen to your citizens needs and they (you) will flourish! If you're good enough :P I'm struggling but really enjoying it. If these graphics look cool to you and you feel like playing something like this than I recommend 100% it's a really well made and challenging 90's game. 4/5 from me.


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Posted on: April 13, 2011

babrahamse

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Games: 36 Reviews: 1

Classical education

This one has aged very well, indeed. The graphics are low-res but the cartoony look still works very well. The little details that give you feedback--the granaries and warehouses filling up--work very well. There are of course some things that remind you you're playing a good Old game... the lack of zoom, and (in Vista at least) I can never get it to minimize to the desktop without crashing. But it's still enormously fun... The only bad thing I can say about it, is it makes me want to play Pharaoh, which (IMO) is just a bit more fun... So GOG better get Pharaoh soon!


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Posted on: July 12, 2011

Elmernite

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Games: 118 Reviews: 1

Feel the Might of Rome

Review of the Original CD Release City Building is a dying breed of game, but if anything could get people interested in it. It would be this game. Planning a city seems simple, until fire strikes. Failed to build a hospital? Plague strikes! If your roads are poorly designed some people will never see a market woman and starve. There is a lot at work here, but if you put in the time to design a city well, you will be rewarded with great success. One mistake people often make is to directly compare it to Sim City. While similar in concept they differ widely in actuality. Caesar puts you much closer to the people and dealing with individual issue than Sim City does. Overall, if you like a city builder game, then get it for sure. If you have never played a city builder, give it a go. There are very few city builders better than this one!


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