I remember getting very excited when Caesar 3 and later original Pharaoh were on the market back in the late 90’s. Pharaoh would be a vast improvement of Caesar 3 in terms of city management, bug fixes, and some issues with roadways, etc. I was thrilled when I saw demos of the new remastered Pharaoh and patiently waited for the final product. Unlike others, I welcomed the graphical facelift and reimagining of the original music…but that’s where the pros of the game stay at. The rest of the game is incredibly buggy. I had issues where storage yards would not honor my orders; inability to rotate maps; the interface is a step back; any item requests made by Pharaoh were not properly delivered; many, many game breaking bugs that caused me to have to restart levels. Not acceptable. Finally, the combat in this game flat out sucks and defeats any purpose of building walls and sentries or possess any flavor of strategy. Sadly, I don’t think a serious patch of the game will address the critical issues. I might be wrong, but I would seriously hold off purchasing this game right now.
