Dotemu and Triskell Interactive announced the return of one of gaming’s best historical city builders ever created, Pharaoh. Revealed today during Gamescom 2020, fans will be able to rule the Nile in 2021 on PC.
First released in 1999 by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Entertainment, Pharaoh puts players into the role of an Egyptian ruler. Players can plan and execute the construction and management of cities as well as settlements in ancient Egypt. Players can also oversee every aspect of life within their borders. Additionally, they can juggle resources and strategize the administration of their empire to ensure that citizens are fed, employed, healthy and protected.
Pharaoh: A New Era will be a full remake of the original game, packing all-new code. This remake will have all-new 2D graphics with brand new UI and improved mechanics to the game. It will also include the 2000 expansion, Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile. Packing more than 100 hours of gameplay, Pharaoh features 53 missions and a full map and mission editor.
Pharaoh features two modes of play; Campaign and Free Build. In campaign mode, players focus on establishing cities during different periods of ancient Egypt, building up trade centers, grand cities, tombs and pyramids, and fabulous monuments for various ancient Egyptian leaders. Players operate in six periods of ancient Egyptian history, with the first period serving as the game’s tutorial. In later periods, players get a choice between two missions; one being a peaceful mission, the other being more military in nature.
In order to celebrate this announcement, Dotemu released a new cinematic trailer for it. The publisher has also released the first two screenshots for this remake, so be sure to view check them out!
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WE WUZ KANGZ: THE CITY BUILDING GAME
Okay joke aside, this is my first city building game, it has a special place in my heart. looking forward for the DE.
My first city builder as well.
same
Mine was Caesar II and SimCity 2000. I feel old..
The only PC gaming love I ever got in 1993, when SimCity 2000 came out, was the once a year trip to my grandparents house where I got to play Wolfenstein 3d. We didn’t have a PC at home until April of 1997.
I remember the first time i seen Wolfenstein 3D in some Computer Fair. I was blown away by the graphics back then.
So was I.
Wow, this should be very interesting! Good news, thanks for the input.
The new graphics, if they’re really going to be like this, are good because they don’t seem to alter the original look too much. This is usually my favorite kind of “remaster”.
But please, for the love of God, don’t make it look too much like a mobile game with childish graphics!!!
(Edit : I do notice a few buildings which look less detailed… Noooooooo)
I use a HD resolution patch and this is how the original game looks : https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b5e0815218a258ead8b6882b665b650e2ec5c6915802a672d14f919fd3c4fba7.jpg
Yeah, i prefer the original with HD resolution patch. The shadows and details are more pronounced while the “remaster” is cartoony looking. Shame..
I can’t agree more!!!
Yeah, mobile-like graphics are a bane of modern games.
Devs can’t be arsed to either a) make the graphics hand-drawn (by this I don’t mean cartoony), which can be really awesome or b) make models look more realistic, like every goddamn genre beside tactical/strategy games already do.
With modern hardware, we should be able to render a similar level of detail in full 3D and in real time!
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Oh, I have this game (and Desperados too, of course). Underrated and had such pleasant graphics. I really miss the late 90s, early 2000s… Yeah, so many games looked realistic. It also reminds me of the reactions when people saw the graphics of Civilization VI and thought it was a serious downgrade.
On one hand, I understand the developers wanted to make something very easy to understand, with a clear map, and buildings which look very distinct from landscapes, but on the other hand, again, it makes everything look even more cartoonish.
I just remembered, Spellbound Entertainment was also making a game called Vampire Hunter. Similar to their other titles, but in a really cool and original (given the genre) setting! It’s a big shame that it got cancelled.
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Oh wow! Yeah, I would have loved this! I had no idea they were working on this. It seems that I see zombies too… Maybe they thought it would be too difficult to escape from zombies in a stealth game or something. lol Or more likely, they didn’t make enough money with the previous games?
Well, nowadays, we have Project Zomboid, but unfortunately, it doesn’t even nearly looks as good as this!
Edit : Argh… Now, the more I look at these screenshots, the more I regret old games. We definitely don’t have graphics like these anymore! Even the recent Desperados 3 doesn’t look as good!
Yeah, mobile-like graphics are a bane of modern games.
Devs can’t be arsed to either a) make the graphics hand-drawn (by this I don’t mean cartoony), which can be really awesome or b) make models look more realistic, like every goddamn genre beside tactical/strategy games already do.
That looks way better then what the remaster is going for
Yeah, the more I look into it, the more I’m starting to have mixed feelings about this remaster after all…
I wholeheartedly agree, but what is nagging me is the race change of the Egyptians :/
ZEUS MASTER OF OLYMPUS !!!
PLEASEE!!!!!
And Caesar III!
Wait those screenshots are of the remake? wtf…. It looks like a mobile game for flip phones. The game looks cool… but it could use an actual lighting/shadow system. It looks very snes era.
Pharaoh: WE WUZ KANGZ Edition.