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You have to build and expand a city, deciding the residential zones (in Caesar II, the houses are built, in Caesar III, you choose the areas, as you do in SimCity) but also infrastructures, security, and religious buildings, recreational areas and so on. Caesar combines both elements of Sim City 2000 and The Settlers II. The game is set during classical antiquity, and all aspects of typical Roman city life are reproduced faithfully: food, resources, religion, military, and so on.

It's the third chapter of the popular series Caesar, created by David Lester. Even though this period of time has been done before in games and in all honesty with more depth and more personality.Ĭaesar 3 is set during ancient Rome which is kind of obvious when you think about it.Caesar III is a city-building historical sim created by Impression Games and published by Sierra in 1998. I still think that Sierra managed to capture the look and feel of ancient Rome very well, not that I have ever been there of course.

However, the story of the game where you are trying to become the greatest Caesar of all time as you build your vision of Rome up to the grandest ever is really cool. The presentation of the game is pretty solid in my opinion. Now, you are not getting a Rome as you would get in a modern game. However, for an isometric viewpoint from 1998, I do feel that things are far more detailed than most people will probably expect. The different buildings and even many of the people have more little details that do help bring them to life. I am not saying the game holds up amazingly well, but for a 20 plus-year-old strategy game, Caesar 3 is not bad at all.

Speaking of not bad at all, the voice acting has aged better than many other games of this era. We were getting into the “Dreamcast” era here and I do not know what it was, but voice acting during this time went through a 2-4-year period where it was laugh out loud bad.