Caesar III

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Description

Caesar III is a city building game, in which you place building and lay out zones. You are in charge of a small province, and hope to make it as peaceful and prosperous as possible, following the advice of your citizens to make it work. The game also features defending your city, by forming an army. and for trade, but you never leave your city. You must pay attention to the Gods, who can inflict disasters if not satisfied. As the game progresses, new technologies become available, which you must allow for.

It is about people and systems. Each building that you build requires you to hire people; people that you see walking the streets of your town. The marketplace needs saleswomen, and buyers. You see the buyers walk to your granary to buy food, which they then bring back to 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 crime and fires he sees. 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

• 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 (2276)

Critic Reviews

Strategy Gaming Online	Windows	Dec 05, 1998	9.1 out of 10	91
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	Aug 23, 1998		90
ESC Magazine	Windows	Dec 15, 1998	9 out of 10	90
IGN	Windows	Oct 08, 1998	8.7 out of 10	87
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Nov, 1998	83 out of 100	83
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Nov, 1998	83 out of 100	83
Score	Windows	Sep, 1998	8 out of 10	80
Macworld	Macintosh	Dec, 1999		80
GameSpot	Windows	Oct 14, 1998	7.9 out of 10	79
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Dec 18, 1998	15 out of 20	75

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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!)