Pharaoh (video game)

Pharaoh is a construction game that was released in November 1999 by the company Sierra Entertainment. The gameplay is similar to the previously gone Caesar series. Bird's-eye View of the player controls to build a settlement. The game takes place is the old Egypt.

Playmaking

The game develops within a highly detailed campaign in which degrees of difficulty consecutive missions strung together. The missions are linked together by a coherent story. At the beginning of a collection of simple enough huts with a cistern. Later, the city is complex, while the tasks are more demanding. The growing population needed for agriculture, the food supply as well as religious and cultural institutions.

Trade with other cities is the passage of time as possible and necessary, such as wars. But the game is mainly specialized in construction, wars run without insight from the player - he just sends only troops and is then informed of the outcome of the battle in knowledge.

The townspeople - peasants, merchants and others - move freely through the city, while focusing their business. They can be clicked individually and then inform the player also about possible problems.

Special

In the course of the campaign tombs to be built including mighty pyramids. The construction process is in stages as shown by workers lay the foundation and then build the pyramid row by row from two different varieties of stone. This gives the player a structure for games unusually realistic impression of the construction of the pyramid.

By the way, the player can also learn some basic principles of Egyptian history, although of historical authenticity probably can not really be discussed here.

The game comes with a 200 page manual, which also responds to the detailed history of Egypt in addition to the game mechanics.

Queen of the Nile: Cleopatra ( Add-on)

In October 2000, appeared with Queen of the Nile: Cleopatra an add-on to Pharaoh. It included, among others, four new campaigns, each with 15 new missions and many new monuments. In addition, new industries, characters, and for the first time also plagues have been added.