Pharaoh demo

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Date Added:
September 30, 1999

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Publisher's description of Pharaoh

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From Impressions Games:

Impressions Games, the creators of Caesar III, plunge you further back in time to the mysterious land of ancient Egypt. Pharaoh is a strategic city-building game set in the Egypt of roughly 2900 to 700 B.C. Grow Egyptian villages into thriving metropolises and watch the economy and inhabitants of this exotic land come to life. Interact with your citizens. Observe their culture and habits. Raise their hopes or raze their homes. Manage your city poorly and watch it burn, be pillaged, or collapse in economic ruin. Manage it well, and ultimately the greatest Egyptian structures will be built in your honor. Your rule will span generations, until your dynasty, your royal bloodline produces a pharaoh!

Pharaoh includes many features not seen before in a city building series game, including a farming model based on the flooding of the Nile, naval warfare, giant monuments that are assembled over time, a unique dynastic progression, and variable difficulty levels. Pharaoh uses 16-bit color graphics, large maps for seamless gameplay, and a proven interface.

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Editor's review of Pharaoh

4.0 stars
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Strategy gamers who get a kick out of King Tut will find much to love in this ancient Egyptian adventure, which takes plenty of cues from competing titles. You are the governor of a city in the land of the pharaohs, set with the task of feeding your people and striking deals with other towns to bring in the goods your town requires. Fans of Caesar III will find Pharaoh's look and feel familiar, and veterans of SimCity too will be pleased to see the range of actions available far exceeds that modern-day adventure. Action is goal oriented, rather than combat oriented--you don't build your city with abandon, but follow directions to complete a certain task. Considering Pharoah was designed in 1999, its graphics are still up to snuff--most views are from a bird's-eye vantage point, so you can survey your domain. Overall, this is a standard but solid civilization building game that should please fans of ancient history.

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3 stars

7 out of 11 people found this review helpful

Version: Pharaoh demo

"Can be irritating and complicated"

by Stinger15 on May 28, 2006

Pros: Has a good setting, very interesting visuals. Has good features and great gameplay.

Cons: The game is very glitchy, very complicated to play sometimes. Tutorials are very confusing, they do not explain how to do things very well. Definitely not the greatest game made by Impression Games. Zues is a better game of this kind with Greek mythology.

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4 stars

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Version: Pharaoh demo

"Great city building strategy from the ancient Egypt"

by Ranito on July 23, 2006

Pros: Improved all the stuff from Caesar 3, nice music and cute graphics. Monuments building.

Cons: Later missions take many hours to play. But thats not a problem of this demo :-)

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4 stars

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

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"Excellence!"

by Junkie. on May 23, 2007

Pros: Now, I'm one of the people who actully owns a full copy of pharaoh and I can tell you it's a highly enticing, and addictive game.

Graphics are great for it's time, and in my opinion this game easily beats others of it's kind like SimCity.

Cons: As good as this game is, it's hard to get used to and you'll find alot of it is learned from trial-and-error.

Tutorials, aren't very user-friendly as they are not very well explained.

But once you've got to grips with it really fun game.

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5 stars

4 out of 6 people found this review helpful

Version: Pharaoh demo

"It only got 4 and a half stars because of the download"

by Jakexl on May 31, 2005

Pros: It's good, heck it's better than that.
Way better than SimCity, by a long way.
And guys get over the download - its only 56mb. geez, get broadband...

Cons: After 2 weeks of straight playing... you know...

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2 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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"MRz Review: Good!"

by abiheiri on September 21, 2005

Pros: Great graphics, interesting setting/storyline.

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