In this remake you can zoom in on them to see the painstakingly redrawn assets in detail. Pharaoh's main hallmark is that it's set in Ancient Egypt, so your citizens want things like beer, pottery, entertainment in the form of jugglers, and apothecaries and priests strolling the sunny streets. If you just want to get in and play, you can pick any story mission you want from the home menu, or play in a sandbox. They're great at easing you in from fundamentals to more advanced city planning. Pharaoh has had some of the best tutorialising campaign missions I think you'll find. The city is the point, and this is an isometric one, where you can look down on two walls and the roof of your buildings with immense satisfaction. You need to build supply chains of food and goods to do this, which all need employees, and so on and so forth. You splot down houses, and ensure that your new citizens have everything they need to keep upgrading those houses and thus maintain a stable population in as efficient an amount of space as possible. If you didn't play Pharaoh the first time around (and there's a statistically significant change that you didn't), it's a city-builder, with the associated trappings. It's a good remake of a solid game, but the mummy in the casket is fundamentally the same. Sure, the updated graphics are fabulous and the quality of life changes mean it plays like smooth peanut butter to the 90s' extra crunchy. ![]() Honestly though, the "A New Era" part is a bit much. Pharaoh: A New Era means I can play that game of my childhood on my shiny black RGB-lit bastard. Pharaoh also happens to be one of my foundational video games, and I played it when I was knee-high to my big brother's desk, at a time when family homes had one (1) yellow-grey computer with a CRT screen. It was one of that era's City Building series that included Zeus and all of the Caesars, a run of games so good that they earned the capital letters. Loathe as I am to become one of those "want to feel old?" types of posters, this review requires me to point out that the original Pharaoh came out in 1999, almost 25 years ago. Pharaoh might be a little out of date in 2023, but A New Era is the definitive way to play an absolute classic city builder that nails the fundamentals
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