Immerse yourself in the history of Ancient Egypt with 50 missions and over 100 gameplay hours in Pharaoh™: A New Era, a remake of Pharaoh (and the expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile), one of the best city builders from the golden age of Sierra Entertainment. Stone by stone, build your cit...
Immerse yourself in the history of Ancient Egypt with 50 missions and over 100 gameplay hours in Pharaoh™: A New Era, a remake of Pharaoh (and the expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile), one of the best city builders from the golden age of Sierra Entertainment. Stone by stone, build your city and manage all aspects of its development to ensure it prospers and makes you a powerful and revered Pharaoh.
Develop your city by cultivating the fertile lands along the banks of the Nile valley. Erect the iconic monuments of Ancient Egypt, including the pyramids, the Sphinx and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Build temples and mausoleums to help manage all aspects of your city's health and culture as well as the predominant polytheistic religion of the time.
Ensure your city is prosperous enough to deal with economic or political crises, or even plundering by enemies. A Pharaoh takes care of its people and does whatever it can to earn the favour of the gods.
Pharaoh™: A New Era celebrates 20 years since the release of the famous franchise with a complete remake, including more than 50 playable missions and over 100 hours of gameplay.
The "Campaign" mode teaches you the game basics while allowing you to experience a unique story in the heart of Ancient Egypt and explore all aspects of life in a thriving city.
You have everything at your disposal to build an entire city and manage all its fundamental elements to ensure it flourishes: the economy, internal and external trade, culture, health, agriculture, education, etc. To help you monitor your progress, various indicators show you the overall well-being of your city and its residents.
The journey back in time is really brought to life with this Ultra HD remake, which upgrades the gameplay mechanics to modern standards and completely redesigns the captivating soundtrack and gorgeous isometric 2D graphics.
A Cult Classic Remade: Rediscover 4,000 years of History in 4K HD in this remake of the cult classic city-builder Pharaoh and its expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile
A Rich, Complexe and Unique Experience: Trade and develop your economy with neighboring cities and make your civilization thrive while facing the elements with the flooding of the Niel, the wars with your enemies, the furies of the Gods and the plagues of Egypt
A Fortune of Fun: Lead your people through a rich 50+ missions and 100+ hour campaign, or unwind and build the metropolis of your dreams in a Free Build mode
Breathtaking Views: Marvel at the beauty of budding settlements and lively cities sprawling across the Egyptian sands, brought to life through fully reworked, intricate hand drawn art
Modern Refinements: Overhauled menus, a refreshed UI and various adjustments make Pharaoh: A New Era’s classically inspired fun feel like second nature to play
A Fully Reorchestrated Soundtrack: Take in stirring recreations of the original soundtrack’s melodies, rearranged and performed with traditional oriental instruments
More than just a remake, Pharaoh™: A New Era also brings hundreds of gameplay changes, enhancing the original experience to new standards:
New reworked UI: with overhauled menus and a fully redesigned UI, build your city more efficiently and raise your empire to new heights
With the New Nilometer Indicator, track both when the Nile floods occur and its quality
Manage your people more easily and efficiently with new and redesigned mechanics, like the Workers tooltip, the Fixed Worker Ratio or the Global Labor Pool
Develop your city with ease with the ability to quickly copy-paste buildings
While this is not the remaster many of us expected, it is still a fun game. The fact that it is easier to mod than the original also helps in modifying the experience to your liking.
And yes, I did shamelesly give this five stars instead of the four it probably should have gotten to counteract those who only rate this low because it is not what they expected.
Aging gamer here so my requirements may be different. Overall, I like the game, but some things prevent me from continued play. Game is too fast paced at my advanced age. I know that building can be accomplished at pause, but when pause is turned off then (for me) it once again becomes too frantic. I quickly lose interest, I would rather take it slower.
Plus:
- looks ok to me
- mostly not bothered by the overall graphic design of the game with a few exceptions
- unbothered by how they display war
Negative:
- zoom in 1 or 2 notches closer would have been great
- 0.5 speed is not slow enough for my gaming needs
- 1 or 2 slower speed notches is what I would need
- the left and right menu selections are much too small (for me)
- a lower resolution selection would help
I loved this game when it came out years ago, even was part of the closed beta for the Cleopatra expansion. Reviving the game with improved graphics seemed a great idea. I liked the flexibility of choosing stable populations and universal recruiting, both of which make the game more realistic and playable in my opinion.
Sadly, the playability of the game remains poor. Problems:
1. Work camps stop working randomly and can sometimes be restarted by loading an older sva - but not always.
2. Ferry crossings will always move immigrants but frequently will not allow the distribution of goods. Relocating ferries after you have built up a city can be problematic and frustrating.
3. Soldiers will not use ferries, period. This means that your recruiter and all forst must be on the same chunk of land not separated by rivers.
4. Pests/predators - in the original game, policemen would kill pests walking around populated areas if they came onto roads. Not in this revival. A tower manned by an archer would also engage in pest control.
5. Invasions. While I don't mind the off-map combats, there is one episode that has become impossible to win. Police in the original game would also confront enemy soldiers with moderate success and manned towers provide additional defense. Without these auxilliary forces the episode Qadesh (I believe) becomes unplayable.
None of this has stopped me from playing, but it could certainly be improved.
I remember when Pharaoh was first released by Sierra Studios in 1999 and I enjoyed it very much and I have to say this version "A New Era" brings back so many fun and frustrating memories.
This game has so much, if not all the aspects of the original and it improves on so many element at the same time that it almost feels like a new title.
I enjoyed playing this and will be playing it for a long time to come.