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- Expansion pack for wildly popular strategy game
- Includes seven new civilizations
- New units, disasters, techs and wonders
- Plenty of new abilities and game options to explore
- For one or more players using LAN or Internet connection

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"Half a rocket ship.", The CONQUESTS expansion pack for Civilization III can be looked at two ways - a souped-up version of the classic PC strategy game, or as an overpriced and underachieving CD-ROM patch cynically masquerading as a whole new product.

Rocket ship half full: CONQUESTS addresses brings many small but much-needed improvements to the Civ III engine. For starters:

It is now possible to move large groups of units as a stack rather than individually - this is a huge benny for gamers who got fed the F up with the "one at a time" system on the original Civ, which could make gameplay extremely tedious when big armies were involved. There are also added commands for the units - "explore", "sentry" and so on. Certain units also get an upgrade. Armies, for example, can attack twice a turn and move much further, much faster, than previously. Primitive artillery units are more accurate. Workers can construct outposts and barricades in addition to fortresses.

There are a fairly number of new elements to the game itself - extractable resources such as stone, sugar, citrus fruit, silver, olive oil, are added to your resource base, new terrain features (wetlands, active volcanos, etc.) appear, and several dozen new combat units of both the civ-specific and general type make an appearance. Certain aspects of the graphics are also improved, and there are some new musical scores. You now have scientific Leaders as well as military ones. There are many new wonders and city improvements, new civ characteristics and two new different forms of government - feudalism and fascism. Finally, there are numerous new civilizations to play - Mongols, Spanish, Celts, Scandanavians, and so on.

The big tweak, of course, is the "Conquests" feature. This has eight or so prepackaged and highly detailed scenarios from different time periods - "Rise of Rome"; "Napoleonic Europe" etc. - that allow you to take various historical eras and see if you can do better than Caesar, Hannibal, Tojo or Wellington did. Several of these scenarios are highly addictive and feature add-ons like locked alliances, multiple civ-specific units, and victory conditions that force the player out of his or her strategic comfort zone. The game's AI, while not threatening Brainiac by any means, is also somewhat improved.

Rocket ship half empty: CONQUESTS is really two games. The souped-up Civ III and the Conquests, and for reasons no one seems to be able to explain, the features of the two do not necessarily carry over. For example, in "Rise of Rome" the Roman player has three different types of legion and his galleys can take four units or an entire army. If you play Rome in the regular game, however, you get only the generic type of legion from the original game and your galleys are the old, lame two-seater. Having multiple civ-specific units is the order of the day in Conquests, but they don't exist in regular civ. Also, many of the civs in the Conquests feature (Prussia, for example) do not exist in the regular game. This is a giant tease, and makes the transition kind of a letdown.

The new game also has some of the old, annoying habits of the original. Raising the difficulty level doesn't make the AI more intelligent, it just makes your own units perform more incompetently. Preposterous outcomes to engagements still occur constantly (regular spearmen defeating elite Roman legions; whole full-strength armies being wiped out by a single ordinary enemy unitl; unarmed troop carriers sinking cannon-laden ships of the line, etc.). Naval warfare before, say, the age of the steam engine is still an exercise in mass suicide, and the computer is extremely reluctant to let you sink ships that carry enemy soldiers. Negotiating economic deals is much harder than before, and peace negotiations are a nightmare even when you are kicking the hell out of your opponent.

Overall, I would say that CONQUESTS, while smoothing over many rough spots in the old version, should come with the following warning to gamers: it IS worth having, and for Civ III addicts probably even qualifies as a must-have, but not necessarily for the full asking price, and only if you understand that you are not getting a new game so much as an improved version of a classic.


"Hard to improve on this one.", I've been playing this game for a long time, I put it aside but keep coming back to it as It's hard to find any more enjoyable game that compares to it. I have civ 4 and while it's a good game I think this one is more enjoyable.

"Great game", Conquests is the best civ version so far. All the added features are a wonderful improvement on the other 2 versions of Civilization III. The game is tons of fun and madly addictive. I recommend this game to everyone who owns a computer.

"Improving a good game", Take a first rate game and add lan and internet ability and you get a game that you can test yourself with players from all over the world.

For myself the ability to play in local lan parties or with pals out of state make it a real winner.

I'm not ready for part 4 right now so I'll just keep enjoying this.

"A great game but still room for improvement", I think Civilization III is a fantastic game and I especially love this expansion pack with all the new civilizations, new wonders, technologies and the two new forms of government.

One big improvement I find in Conquests over the original is that trade is better. the AI is more willing to trade their surplus fur/iron etc than in the original. that really bothered me about the original cause I remember one game when my neighouring AI civilization had a surplus of four fur and still wouldnt trade any with me. Another improvement I like is the option to make the AI civilizations more aggressive. This is good as I have played one game in the original civ3 on Monarch level which I completed without a single war occuring in the whole history of the game. That's just not realistic. thankfully now u can make all the AI more aggressive which is good. also conquests allows new civs to be created when one is destroyed which is good.

However I think there are still faults in the game that I'm sure will probably be rectified in Civ4. The latter part of the game is very slow and can get annoying especially when pollution keeps occuring on every go and u have to keep sending your workers to a new pollution spot to clean it up. Fortunately civ4 has promised to eradicate this. another major problem is the military side of the game. the "stack of doom" tactics that u use to defeat an enemy is simply not realistic. fortunately again civ4 has promised to correct this problem also. the final fault i can find with civ3 in general is the way every civ starts at the same year 4000BC. i think it would be nice if u had maybe only 3 or 4 civilizations starting the game and then a few more randomly start up over the next few thousand years. also it would be cool if factions of your civilization broke off or rebelled to become independent civilizations later in the game especially if they were located on a seperate island or continent from your mainland.

to sum up i say buy conquests if u already own civ3 (its only $14.99). if not i think ur probably better off not get addicted to the game at this stage and simply wait for civ4 to come. that promises to be a much better game to get addicted to.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Buggy like you wouldn't believe", This game was released way to soon. It is buggy and missing many graphics files. Even the very large patch cannot fix it. I wouldn't recommend this. It was a lot of fun but invariably something would go wrong. For example in one game It would add 500 gold per turn to my tally regardless of howmuch my civ was actually spending. Sounds good, well in another game, I was in the negative no matter how much I stripped down the expenses. This appeared to be related to the corruption calculations, but I'm not a programmer so don't take my word for it. The game is just unpredictable. In another very frustrating episode, I could not load a certain saved game, for no apparent reason.

Stay away. Save your money. Civ 4 is coming and this is not worth the waste of time.

"Extremely addictive, and it makes CIV 3 complete", Although I am a long time fan of Sid Meier's games, I was somewhat disappointed with Civ 3 when it came out. However, this expansion pack more than makes up for it. If you've got Civ 3 I highly recommended that you get this, as it adds many more civilizations, scenarios, units, goverments (feudalism and fascism) and building options, and other things that probably should have been in the game in the first place.

The only negative things about this are that it doesn't allow palace building in the scenarios, and the "events" from civ 2 that made the scenarios so exciting are absent. Had these been included the game would have been a lot better. Also, the game does slow down on bigger maps, even on a fast computer.

Concerning the January 10, 2004 review, I hardly think CIV 3 compares to GTA Vice City in terms of violence and depravity. I'd much rather have young kids playing this and learning about history, world cultures, and science than running around shooting people and stealing cars. (Not that I have anything against GTA Vice City, which is a game I also happen to enjoy; GTA & CIV are different games for different audiences, and it's not fair to compare them) The Meso-American cultures practiced HUMAN SACRIFICE. If you don't like it, don't practice it. In the game, if you want to you can use democracy to usher in a new era of global peace and freedom, or you could be a fascist dictator and destroy your enemies with nuclear weapons. How you play Civ is up to you, and that's part of what makes the game so much fun.

"Good, but kind of boring", I'd say it was better than the original with new civilizations, units, wonders, conditions for victory, and city improvements. There are 15 new civilizations each with a special unit. The best thing in my opinion is now in this expansion you can customize your victory conditions, but not for the conquests. My favorite conquest map is the on in Japan where there is a almost constant action. So in conclusion this game is pretty darn good.
(If only there was a four and a half.)

"Don't get this expansion", I played the game Civ 3 and the game works very well. I have not had any problems with the program crashing at all. I then buy this expansion pack and the first time I play the game with the expansion pack, the game crashes on me! I have tried loading the auto saved games at different save points but it does nothing for me, it still crashes. I then downloaded the April, 2004 patch for this expansion pack and the game still crashes! I wish I could return the expansion pack to the store and get my money back and just play the Civ3 game without any expansions. Hopefully they will iron out more of the bugs in the future, until then, I won't play this anymore. There is no point to playing a game that I can't finish.

"Conquer them all with Conquests", This supplement goes a =long= way to addressing some of my complaints about the original Civilization III.

Since Civilization I, this game has always been one of my favorite games to play on the computer, both against the computer and against others. When adding this expansion to Civilization III, Conquests becomes the game for others to beat again when it comes to world building games.

First some bad news - if you already have the "Play the World" supplement, you already have some of the material that's on this expansion. The "Play the World" material is included with Conquests.

Now the good news. This expansion adds a =lot= of new material to a game that sorely needed the boost. There are seven new Civilizations to use. Each civilization now has at least one unique unit - such as the Mayan Javelin Throwers, Portuguese Carracks, Swiss Mercenaries, and Sumerian Enkidu Warriors. There are a few new tech advances. There are a couple good disasters to avoid. The new "locked alliance" feature allows you to team up with another civilization more or less permanently. There are several new resources - a couple of which are pretty strange. There's a couple of new Wonders of the World to build. Several new government types. "Stealth Attack" is a cute way for you to start (or finish off!) wars. The two new civilization types (Agricultural and Seafaring) don't seem to add much at first, but try playing with them to see how much they really do change the outcome of games. Finally, the new levels of difficulty (including "Sid" - the hardest of all) add a couple new levels of complexity.

But the best features of this expansion are the scenarios. There are many to try - each with its own challenges. Almost all of the scenarios have a basis in historical fact - a nice touch. From ancient almost prehistoric men to beyond the present. There's great game play in the World War Two scenario or the Napoleonic Wars. Or try the MesoAmerican scenario to see the most of what the rule changes in this edition did to improve the game.

And the game has been fixed so that you can try to play by yourself. Instead of telling you "you have won" after the first turn, the game now allows you to develop a civilization from its infancy to the stars without any distractions. This is a great feature to try for learning the pluses and minuses for your chosen civilization, and makes for a great teach yourself the ropes mode before challenging online players. But do try to fight the computer first...

Now some bad news again. If playing with the multiplayer option, you =must= trade with neighboring civilizations, or conquer them. This limitation subtracts from some of the luster of the game.

But with that as a given, players of Civ III should get this disc. If you were dissatisfied with the limitations of Civ III, then this expansion will eliminate most of those complaints. This game is now the one to watch until Civ IV.