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- Rewrite History with the Greatest Game of All Time! Product Information The Civilization Legacy:  SidMeier created the original Civilization computer game in 1990. Civilizationinstantly set the standard and defined a new genre of empire-building strategygames and is still recognized as one of the greatest games of all time. The gameis an addictive blend of building, exploration, discove

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What our customer's say!

"can be addicting", but it sure is hard. on the easiest setting, you'll more then likely spend the majority of the time at war with 7+ other societies who have an alliance against you. and if you want to keep up scientifically, you won't have any gold until you run out of achievements to learn.

"Civilation III", Absolutely addictive, better than Sim City, rather than building a city, you get to build an empire with CivIII. Tried Civ Complete but found it more difficult to play though the added features were great. In Civilization III, you start with a dark world you have to send explorers out to discover. Build as many cities as you can, trying to add as many luxury items (wine, spice, silk, etc) and strategic items (iron, horses, coal) into your empire while building common items (libraries, banks, etc) and wonders (pyramid, colossus, pentagon). The game starts in the BC era and continues through the 21st century as your technology advances, you win or lose wars, establish diplomatic ties with neighboring countries and continue to build. A first class game of strategy.

"Civilization III", Its hard to walk away. Its like playing chess and using the world as your board.

"A friend got me hooked on this.", I had to give up my PS2 as it caused arthritsis in both shoulders. So a friend let me play this on his PC. WOW!! a lot of fun. Took me awhile to get the hang of the game like how to EXPLORE; use the Automation feature and how to put ppl on a ship etc. So I have purchased the game for myself. Game has several levels from beginner on up to difficult. You get to pick what civilaztion you want to build and which one you wish to challange.

If you have just started to play a PC games, get this one as the price has dropped since first introduced.

"good education game for teens", It is a nice educational game for teens and adults that stimulated interest to the world history and helps to understand past societies.

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"Awesome game", I got this game and then I got the expansion, you cant play with expansion without this,but after playing the expansion you dont need this anymore.

"Disappointing sequel", I own Civilization 1,2 & 3 and have played them all extensively & obsessively. Civ 3 is a waste of time. Gameplay takes too long compared to Civ 2 (the best). I still play it (Civ 2)from time to time and have finished it at the diety level. Civ 3 remains in its box. Frankly, I bought it because I enjoyed Civ 2 so much.

Not recommended. The only saving grace is the graphics.

"A great, confusing game", Love this game, a good time waster, if one has the time to waste...only wish that the action would slow down a bit, all that running around so fast is confusing for an "oldie" like me.

"A Good Civ Installment, Could Be Better...", So here's the scoop:

Civ II was my favorite game for a long time, I spent many hours from dusk until dawn craving that "one more turn" fix. So naturally when Civ III came out I had to give it a shot.

Civ III continues in the Turn-Based genre (which may or may not appeal to you as the case may be) and for the most part seems a worthy successor. The graphics are very good and the diplomacy and resources brings a pleasant change of strategy to the scene. I also like the national borders and culture changes (you have a change to assimilate an opponents city if your cultural output is greater than theirs in the borders of your civilizations).

This game is not without some flaws, though:

- Some imbalances still exist (the legendary Caveman beating the Tank)

- You no longer "control" Air Units: you can set up missions and patrols, but you don't get to move them as freely as you could in civ II or SMAC. I find this a bit disapointing to the overall experience. There were times I saw that pesky settler just out of range and wanted to send a plane on a suicide mission to take him out, but you can't do that with the Air units in this game.

Civ IV is out now, and it looks like they tooks some of the good elements of Civ III and SMAC and rolled them together (for the unenlightened, SMAC = Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri, which I feel is one of the best TBS games ever). However, it seems a resource hog (won't run well on my laptop), so I haven't had much playtime on it yet.

In short, Civ III is a more polished Civ II with some minor detractions. The game play is still fun and gets you addicted to "One More Turn!" moments. However, I must say I still feel SMAC is the best.

"What I expected", I've always had a problem with these newer versions of past games, particularly those from Sid Meier and company. They take a game like SimCity or Civilization or any other popular old game, give it a number after it like 3000 or III or IV or what have you, then they release them again. And what do you really get when you get into the game? You get the exact same game, only with better graphics and one or two extra features. When I saw this game I thought it would probably be like that.

Well, I was right.

Civilization III is pretty much like Civilization II. The only difference is that the graphics are better, the CG diplomats look more polished. What surprised me getting into it though was that the gameplay felt different on several points.

First off, where was the updating of my units? I built Leonardo's Workshop, Newton's Academy, and other wonders yet my units all stayed the same. In fact much of the units are kept in existance, meaning you can still build longbowmen even as the option to build WWI-style infantry. Why? I also noticed there are fewer units to build. I kept musketeers for the longest of time, waiting for my Napoleonic rifleman, only to get the WWI infantryman after eons.

Also, like the reviewer before me pointed out, there are some serious balance issues with this game. Why are my WWI-style riflemen being defeated by ancient age spearmen? Although an incident where cavemen defeating tanks hasn't happened to me yet, I wouldn't put it past that those stories are true. In Civilization II if I had modern-era units against antique units from 1000 years ago, the result was as expected. I was also astounded by what cannons had become: pretty much worthless battlefield pieces. They don't act like normal combat units, you instead have to choose the "bombard" option and select what it bombards, which doesn't do much in the long run.

Plus, I want to know what decides the battle outcome in this game? Before I continue, let me give you a scenario:

A battlefield. A large unit of 1914-era riflemen are lined up in a ditch, well trained and armed with bolt-action repeater rifles aimed at the ready. Before them is an irrigated terrain; the ground is muddy, sodded, and unpredictable. Up ahead are Medieval knights clad in their heavy armor, charging forward into the mud. The riflemen open up at 1800 meters. Who do you think is gonna win?

Well, Civilization III seems to take out factors like terrain, weapons, and location - according to the game, the knights would win. I couldn't see any real advantage fighting on a hillside or fighting in a desert. There need to be serious tweaks regarding that.

On that note, there seem to be a few strange bugs. For example, one city kept producing swordsman no matter what I set it to. These weird things never happened in Civilization II.

Civilization III is a good replacemnt for Civlization II if only to replace the game with something that will run better on your modern computer. Then again, according to the Civilization III engine, a 1990 Macintosh could own a 2005 Windows XP.