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Summary: Late Night Addiction
Review: This is My first game in the CIV series. It has the elusive "just one more turn" factor. The first night I played It was 3:30 AM before I realized the time. The game is easy enogh to learn quickly, but hard enough to stay interesting.
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Summary: Excellent Game
Review: If you are a fan of the Sid Meir games and the Civilization series then you should pick this game up.Fans of strategy game should also as well.This game is fun and will keep you hooked for hours on end.
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Summary: Addictive game!
Review: I have payed the Civiliztion series ever since the first installment came out ten or so years ago, as well as a lot of other Sid Meier Games, such as Colonization or Railroad Tycoon. Civilization is a great addition to Sid Meier's Resume and I have spent many hours playing the game and lost quite a fe hours of sleep because of it too.
The game adds quite a few new features that I like. These are the addtion of culture and the fact that some AI cities may want to switch sides (or vice versa) if adjoining cities have a strong cultural influence over them. Also, I like the fact that you can now win the game in more ways than before (diplomacy victory and cultural victory have been added). Also, I like the fact that you now have natrual an luxury resources on your map. The natural resources are necessary to build certain improvements or units. There are always one or two essential resources that do not seem available in your territory. Then you will have to trade them with the AI, find them on the map in open land and build a city or colony there, or wage WAR with an opponent.
The gamne has a few drawbacks as well. If you are playing with 8 or more computer opponents the game gets rather slow as you are waiting for the computer to complete its turn (especially towards the end of the game). Also, signing mutual protection pacts has usually backfired for me. Either the AI declares war immediately afterwards and then I am sucked into a sometimes futile campaign that costs me quite a few resources or, when I declare war on an AI player with a certain objective in mind (usually a natural resource or a wonder) it seems my AI ally usually captures the objective. Another big drawback is corruption. In CIV III it is such a problem in cities that are far away from your capital, that they are totally unproductive. There are some tips on the Civfanatics Website that allow you to circumvent this to an extent.
All in all, Civ III is a good game and certainly worth the purchase. Buy a book along with it as well so you have something to do while the AI makes his move.
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Summary: has some issues
Review: I gave it 4 stars because it's still a fun game despite its bugs. The graphics are very good and the new concepts added into the game are great (culture, the way planes, cannons, workers, and settlers now operate, war-time mobilization, resource colonies, unit experience, unit upgrades, resource requirements, natural luxuries, connecting cities so they can trade, armies, rushing completion of projects using people, leaders, etc.)
But there are a number of bugs you should know about. 1. changing your mobilization is tricky and many-times dosn't work when it should. 2. After the game ends from taking too long, and you choose to continue, you can't view your spaceship anymore(tho you can keep building it). 3. If you have a unit with an attack of 3 and you attack a unit with a defense of 1, and both units have the same experience level, you will lose the battle half the time regardless of difficulty level. 4. Even on a new computer, if you have 8 or more civilizations in the game, there will be alot of waiting between turns. 5. Your game map might not have every resource, and if it does, there might not be enough to go around or last very long. 6. cannons and the like don't hit often and when they do, they don't do much damage. 7. You're defensive fighters don't usually shoot down incoming bombers, but your bombers will be shot down by your enemy's defensive fighters.
All that I could deal with and i would still like the game and play it alot. but there's one thing that really frustrates me and keeps me from playing. Only cities a certain distance from your capital and forbidden palace are productive. any city you build or capture that is too far away will never produce anything, ever, no matter what you do(other than moving your capitol and making other cities unproductive instead).
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Summary: BEST....GAME...EVER.
Review: This is the best game I've ever played. Every time I play it 2 hours magically whips by. So even if you have the tiniest interest in strategy games BUY CIV III NOW!!
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Summary: Do Not Buy!!
Review: This is the worst! I was so disappointed with civ-III! I love Civ-II. They made no improvements to the few areas that civ-II needed improvements. They only made the game unplayable to someone who wants a realistic game. I will list the sorry aspects of this game.The diplomacy is beyond stupid and unrealistic!
After awhile all the rest of the civ's will form alliances against you and if you go to war with one you can count on them all jumping in. O yes and even the ones you have treaties with will attack you! Forget about far trading! This concept is not realistic in this sorry game!
I was low on money so I figured I would sell a city to a "ally" for some quick cash. No way! I tried 100g, then 80g, then 20g, and just for laughs 1g! Guess what, they bought it for one gold. This was a city that was making money and expanding. This is a joke! All the rest of the diplomatic exchanges are the same, you get nothing in return for almost all you have! Treaties with other civs are worth nothing as you grow because they will make treaties with the rest of the civs and attack you on the first provocation. Yes even after you go to war for them! The only way to win this game, or even compete, is to use the cheat strategies that give you unlimited money. They are listed on all the civ sites, but who wants to win this way. Buy an army to fight the world! This concept totally defeats the diplomacy strategy that is supposed to work with this game (But does not)! I could go on but I think I made my point. If you like strategy games go with CIV-II, its the best game out there. I would stay away from this sorry game!!!!!!
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Summary: 3.5 stars actually
Review: Having not played this game in at least 6 years, obviously to the exclusion of Civ. II, my expectations were fairly high. Surely in that time, and this, being the third installment, there would be a great many renovations, and innovations. Well, there isn't; and some would no doubt be quick to point out that one can not improve on perfection, so I will be quick to point out that one should at least try when it's my money they want. This is pretty much exactly the same game I played all those many years ago, and I can see almost naught a single change what so ever. That is my major gripe, and why it earns not but 3 ½ stars, at least from me. I can't however ignore the highly addictive quality this game still retains. Maybe it's because it takes forever to play, only to be cruelly ridiculed by your CPU for not being better at it. More than a few times was my clinched fist hammered on the table when a stupid move on my part had cost me dearly. Such emotions can only be wrought by a program of quality, and good writing, or perhaps just plain stupidity on my part. Who cares, the game is challenging, and has it's moments. Beware though ye consumer, this is naught but leftovers reheated, and repackaged for all us suckers out there with a few extra bucks, a computer, and no girlfriend ( or boyfriend).
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Summary: a great game
Review: this is a great game in the Civilization series but it is not as good as Civilization 2.
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Summary: Civilization II with a face lift
Review: I am a huge fan of Civilization II. I just got Civilization III as a birthday present. My opinion... it is fun to play, I enjoy the graphic enhancements but I expected more and I found my self a little dissapointed. My favorite enhancement was the diplomacy options. The game is not multi-player, which was a hue dissapointment. Over all I would have to say that I enjoy the game a lot but I am not sure it was worth the upgrade. Civilization II still remains my favorite.
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Summary: More Options but less Bang
Review: I bought this game as soon as it was released, sight unseen. I do appreciate the advances in the look of the game buy frankly I was disappointed with the changes to the Wonders of the World -- I don't find them as "useful" to lie, cheat and steal for as they were in Civ II or even in SMAC and SMAC:AC. Of particular disappointment is Leonardo's Workshop. If you are interested in a long drug out slug your way up and micro manage your upgraded units, then you will love it...but if you are like me and liked have Leo's Workshop do that for you, then this change will annoy you. Many such changes were made to supposedly improve gameplay, but since multiplayer wasn't provided then this seems like a [bad] explanation. Better they had modified the Wonders at the higher diff levels then just sabotage them from get street. Oh well, still fun but not as fun as it should have been.
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