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Addicting, very addicting...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can spend five hours playing this game and not get bored. That's how I feel about most of these city-building games like Zeus: Master of Olympus and Caesar 3. The only thing I didn't like about this game was that you always had to put the industrial buildings very close to the homes or else there'd be no workers. Unfortunately that brings down the neighborhood appeal, and then your houses devolve. Also the gods can be somewhat hard to please. Of course, since the mission editor comes with this game, you could always edit a custom mission and limit the gods to 3 or so. Overall, this is a great add-on to an already fantastic game.

Old Sims are the best sims!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Pharaoh-Cleopatra city/civilization building sim is still one of the best made even after a half dozen years. I much prefer it over many of the newer sims of a similar nature such as "Children of the Nile", The Settlers: Hertitage of Kings, etc.. Pharaoh-Cleopatra's graphics are much crisper and more detailed than the newer crap. Pharaoh-Cleopatra was one of the first and still might be the "Gold Standard"! And if you enjoy Pharaoh-Cleopatra, give Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom or Zues-Poseidon a try. These "older" sims can now be had for less then 20 bucks!

Not Too Shabby ....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would have given this a more enthusiastic rating, because I do play the game and enjoy it, but there are a few issues I feel really hurt the game. Some of the communities are on a timer, which doesn't allow for leisurely game playing and the construction can take forever. By and large though, I would recommend this but advise some patience.

Makes a great game even better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: June 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This addon to Pharaoh adds a plethora of new buildings, monuments, terrain and people. From what I have seen thus far there are to be numerious new scenarios to play and some new campaigns which follow the last ones, and cover new eras of Egypt's history. If you loved Pharaoh, this is an addon that you will have to get!

I've been playing this game for years

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game.

I won't bore you with all the techy stuff..suffice to say, if you
like building games like Sims, you will like this.

You learn a lot about ancient Egypt which is a big plus for
homeschoolers. They can have fun while learning.

Cleopatra expansion lets you edit the maps and build your own
empire from the bottom up.
You can set up your own trade routes add whatever you like,
build up whatever military you want, even number of ships and soldiers, etc.

The cheats will let you have more playing time by letting you add
more money to the treasury, or add some fun,
like adding mummies or hippos rampaging all over your city.

But, be careful with that one, they don't go away!

This game is tops in my book.

That's why I have been playing it steady for over 5 years.

Bottom line: It's fun and that's what a gaming is supposed
to be.

Can they possibly do it again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: June 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was hooked on Pharaoh for months. It was a good mix of city building and city defence. If the expansion pack is half as good as the original I want it! As soon as I get the money it will be mine! so if you havent got Pharaoh yet and you have a lot of time and patience get Pharaoh AND Cleopatra. They are both good investments I promise you.

Cleopatra Official Expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game. Of all the sim games I prefere the ones like Pharoah, Cleopatra, Zues and Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom.

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the expansion pack of the game ' Pharaoh '. In this expansion pasck, you can find many new things such as maps, buildings, enemies etc. This expansion is rather good because when you feel boring with 'pharaoh' , it make you play 'pharaoh' again with those new things.

They're already working on a new game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: August 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just read that there will be a completely new game in this series, called "Zeus" or something like that, it will be set in Greece (of course); good thing we have the Cleopatra expansion to keep us busy until then :)

A very good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most hooking games ive ever played its funner than hell and its got fun missions to.

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