Caesar III

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Description

Caesar III is a city building game, where gameplay involves placing buildings and laying out zones. The player is in charge of a small province, and must make it as peaceful and prosperous as possible, following the advice of their citizens to make it work. The game also features defense of the city by forming an army and trading, but always takes place in the city the player is in charge of. Players also must pay attention to the Gods, who can inflict disasters if not satisfied. As the game progresses, new technologies become available.

This game is about people and systems. Each building that requires to hire people from those walking the streets of the city in order to be built. The marketplace needs saleswomen, and buyers. Buyers walk to the granary to buy food, and will in turn bring back more food to the granary. The sales lady walks up the street selling food to the houses she finds, which allows them to evolve to better housing, which pay higher taxes. The people in this game make the difference. Instead of a police station having a radius of effectiveness, it sends out a police officer who can only fight crimes and fires they see. The need to rely on randomly walking citizens means placement of buildings is as significant as in Serf City/The Settlers.

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Alternate Titles

• "凱撒大帝3" -- Traditional Chinese spelling
• "凯撒大帝III" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "Цезарь 3" -- Russian spelling
• "Cezar III" -- Polish title
• "César III" -- Brazilian title
• "Caesar III: Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour" -- French tag-lined title
• "Caesar III: Build a Better Rome" -- Tag-lined title

Part of the Following Groups

• BestSeller Series (Cendant / Havas / Vivendi Universal) releases
• Caesar series
• Games that include map/level editor
• Impressions Games' City Building series
• Setting: Ancient Roman

User Reviews

Listen to your citizens! Build a better Rome!	Windows	Duan Xuan (71)
A nice step up from the first two.	Windows	Afterburner (496)
A really good city building sim	Windows	Andrew Hartnett (2275)

Critic Reviews

Strategy Gaming Online	Windows	Dec 05, 1998	9.1 out of 10	91
ESC Magazine	Windows	Dec 15, 1998	9 out of 10	90
All Game Guide	Macintosh	1999		90
Gaming Entertainment Monthly	Windows	Dec 04, 1998	87 out of 100	87
Hacker	Windows	Dec, 1998	84 out of 100	84
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Nov, 1998	83 out of 100	83
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Nov, 1998	83 out of 100	83
Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Nov 02, 1998	82 out of 100	82
GameGenie	Windows	1998		80
Attack Games	Windows	Dec, 1998	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

Sales

In 1999, Caesar III won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Awards

• PC Gamer
  • April 2000 - #50 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games" poll (tied with Grand Theft Auto)
• PC Player (Germany)
  • Issue 01/1999 - Best Managerial Simulation in 1998
• Power Play
  • Issue 02/1999 – Best Building Strategy Game in 1998
• Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland
  • 1999 - Gold Awards

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Related Web Sites

• Caesar 3 Map Archive (a collection of maps for the game)
• Caesar III Heaven (An all encompasing site devoted to the game)
• Caesar III Unlimited (A comprehensive site with trainers too.)
• Caesar's Senate (A collection of news and patches)
• Sierra Forums (This is a site where you can discuss everything about Caesar III!)