All in all, a top notch bit of city building fun. There's plenty of options and elements to experiment with and which adds much to the long term appeal, while the interface is a breeze to use and the visuals simple but very effective. It's the attention to detail here which helps make it stand out, and there's no denying the sense of satisfaction which comes from gradually building up your city into a bustling metropolis.

Caesar 3 really is a great entry into what is a very crowded genre. Adding to your problems are the Gods, which may send disasters your way if you're not pious enough, while the attentions of rivals may come your way too and which will lead to battle, so be prepared. You start out with just a small area under your control, so you'll have to start placing buildings, creating transport networks, building up your defenses and all the other myriad things that need to be taken care of, all while keeping an eye on your resources and finances. As you might expect from the title, this one puts you in the role of a mighty Roman leader and it's your responsibility to develop your province and turn it into a thriving city. In many ways, it's not overly original, but it's simply put together so well that you can easily forgive this and if you do play it, be prepared to say goodbye to the real world. This is the current download link:ĭownload the zip file from Įxtract the file dsound.dll into your Caesar 3 directory where the c3.exe executable lives.The Caesar series is a superb set of strategy city building games, like a mix of The Settlers and SimCity, and this third entry in the franchise is perhaps one of the better efforts, making it a fine choice for any genre fan. Search Google for 'DirectX' and download from the Microsoft website. From advice elsewhere in this forum, I found that downloading the file 'dsound.dll' from and copying it into the C3 directory fixed this issue as well.

Once I downloaded and installed it and rebooted my machine, then it launched again fine.

I totally forgot that this game needs DirectX for it to work and since I had just built this system fresh, it wasn't yet installed.

Then upon closing, it would not launch at all. I had the issues above where it launched at first, but the audio was resetting every few seconds. I just built a new system and went head-first into running Caesar 3.

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