Caesar 3

A lot of old games I've played definitely deliver on a sense of nostalgia. But, Caesar 3 surprised me, it's legitimately a great game even by today's standards. The graphics hold up very well (imo the 2d graphics from this era aged a lot better than 3d from the same era). If I'm being honest, my only real gripe is the behavior/controls for military units is not great. Having said that, it's the only thing that's struck me as a pain since returning to this game. There's a great open source project, 'julius', that adds really nice wide-screen support. I can't recommend it enough. If anyone reading this has played the stronghold HD versions, the julius mod feels a lot like that. Same old game, except it looks right on a modern machine.

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 !"

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.

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.

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!