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Summary: Yeah, so it's okay
Review: It's okay. When you get to be a nation for approximately 6000 years, though, it gets kind of BORING. Yes, you can be lots of different leaders, but playing this game over and over you start to wonder which one you should be. And that's when the game loses it's taste.The Instruction Booklet is overwhelmingly long, so unless you can read VERY fast I recommend you don't read it. It's also filled with insults, like, "most people don't want to buy the strategy guide, because it's not waiting in front of them."
It even has fake quotes, but if you're dumb enough they sold it to the right person. The people you play are varied between colors, so guys don't want to be France: 1)It's always pink 2) You look like Joan of Arc on the screen.
There are some other things but if I haven't dissed them enough, I'll stop.
It's fine if you're the smartest person ever.
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Summary: Civilized Civilization
Review: This game is amazing, the details are just endless. There is numerable amount of resources and weopons, such as chariots, catapults, and later in the game, tanks and naval ships. The ONE flaw that this game has is the larger your civilzation is, the longer it takes to complete one round of turns. When i played as France once, I got so far and had so many people on the map, it took five minutes to complete one turn so i stopped playing that level. Another thing is that no two maps are the same. It is an amazing game!
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Summary: This game is lots of fun
Review: If you've played the Civ series you probably already know whether or not you will like this game. The reason I rated it five stars is the it is very fun to play which is basically the purpose of a game. This game could easily not appeal to many people that have different tastes. What makes a game fun for me won't always make if fun for you. Firstly this game does not have any of the intense realistic graphics found in many 3D shooters. If you love to oooh and aaah over cool graphics this might not be your cup of tea. Also the game is turn based so there won't be any intense action that you would find in a real time strategy game. Some friends of mine who I have tried to turn onto this game didn't enjoy it because they said it was too hard. This isn't a game that you will sit down and be good at in an evening. Couple this with the fact that the game is slow on large and huge maps and you might not like it if you are the impatient type. You could say that it is a little like Chess, it's easy to learn how to move the pieces but it will take some practice to be really good. Here is what I love about the game. I always seem to be able to learn something I didn't know and refine my strategy to be more successful. Also each game has different problems such as lack of resources or powerful neighbors that cause you to really think about what overall strategy to employ to win the game. I love getting down into the nitty gritty detials and this game has lots of them. You can zoom to every city and arrange the production of resources any way you see fit, decide what to build, what to trade with other civs, where to build roads, etc. Even though it's turn based it seems like something is always happening and you are always accomplishing goals and setting new ones. There are multiple options for victory conquest, domination, diplomatic, cultural, scientific and histographic. Depending on your mood, or more often your situation you can optimize your civilization for each victory condition. I like to play this game on the hardest possible level that I can handle. It's very exciting to be holding on fighting for your very existance and trying to find some way to win at the end. Even though I said the game wasn't for everyone, I really doubt that anyone who takes time to learn the game and play for a few hours could possibly not like it. Hope my review helped.
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Summary: Does anyone know why this game crashes so much??????
Review: I've heard great things about this game so I purchased it. The installation went smoothly and started playing when the game froze 5 minutes into the game. I didn't think anything of it so I restarted the game and it froze again. After a few times, I uninstall and reinstall thinking this would help. It didn't. It kept freezing 5 minutes into the game. I've closed every applications as per Infogrames website and the game still freezes. I'm running on 1 GHZ w/ 512mb ram w/ 64mb video card and good sound card. This is more than enough resources to meet the system requirements. Does anyone know if there is a cure for this? Any help is appreciated.
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Summary: Any help with why the game crashes so much??????
Review: I've read great things about this game and purchased it. Initial setup went perfectly and I was playing for 5 minutes when the game froze. I didn't think anything of it and restarted the game. Again after playing for 5 minutes, it froze. After a few more times, I uninstalled the game and reinstall to see if that would change. It didn't it kept freezing after 5 minutes or so. I closed every application as recommended on Infogrames website and it still crashes. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this? I'm running on 1GHZ with 512mb ram, 64meg video card and good sound card so it meets more than the recommended system requirements. It's fustrating as I can't seem to find any help. If anyone knows the answer...please help.
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Summary: Still, a DEEPLY FLAWED Game. A poor successor to Civ 2.
Review: A year ago Civ 3 was released, being rushed to market in time for the Holiday buying season - just as its company, Firaxis, has rushed the Expansion for Civ 3, Play the World, to market. It took over half a year, and four patches to get Civ 3 free of most bugs and major problems; however, it remains a deeply flawed game with many bad concepts. It simplifies history compared to the great Civ 2, makes user interface cumbersome, and creates various annoying quirks with Espionage, Diplomacy, among others, all that while giving us lots meaningless superficial cute graphics. Civ 3 was missing many vital aspects, such as Multiplayer. Play the World, finally, gives us MP, but even that is messed up. It needed an immediate patch, which is inexcusable, and even then slows down an already slow game even more, while causing occasional crashes. Even with PTW, Civ 3 remains a huge disappointment, and an unworthy successor to the classic. Civ 2.
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Summary: Its just plain boring
Review: I got this game for my birthday last year and I hate it. There are no battles, and all you do is sit there gazing at your city in a bird's eye view. Plus you take turns with your opponent, which is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard of since the making of the computer game Risk. I enjoy all the other cool games like starcraft, warcraft, and ages of empires, but this game is simply stupid. If you are considering making a puchase on it, don't. Youll throw it away once you play it.
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Summary: Some nice automation, but game made overly complex
Review: There seem to be two ways to review this -- as a player of Civilization 2 and as a new player to the Civilization line. Having gotten hooked on the original Civilization, then later on Civ 2, this review is from that perspective. One major improvement over its predecessor is the notion of queueing, specifically scientific research and building things. This was a feature that first appeared in Alpha Centauri (aka "Civilization on another planet"), and helps take some of the rote functionality out of each turn. For city improvements, this is somewhat impeded by continuous confirmations of each new item. I'd love a way to turn that off, at least until the queue of items is gone. There's a "governor" mode, but it wasn't really obvious how to get it to do what I wanted. For example, I'd love to set up a profile whereby a city could produce a set of key infrastructure items -- a granary, barracks, temple, marketplace, library -- before requiring interaction. Diplomacy is improved, although the computer plays a little too well, probably to a different set of rules. A nice map editor is included that allows you to alter some of the basic chemistry to make the game more enjoyable. In previous versions, a Settler could colonize or perform improvements. Civ 3 removes the improvement functionality, which seriously changes the dynamics of the game in a bad way. Although it's mitigated by the automation, having to balance the number of settlers to workers distracts from the fun. Eventually one ends up with a bunch of pieces running around doing who knows what. A final detriment is the copy protection, requiring the original CD. Although laptop unfriendly, this would be tolerable if it didn't rely on embedded errors. Specifically, occasionally the game won't play and I have to pop the CD out and back in or power-cycle my machine. It's unfortunate there's no "lite" mode whereby one can play without subjecting the original CD to the perils of airport security.
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Summary: The best turn based strategy game
Review: I bought Civ I and II and played them both to death. Although the idea on Civ III is essentially the same there are enough differences to make this one worth buying. I particularly like the leaders in CivIII, I punched the air first time I got one :-) In general I like this kind of game so I'm biased, but if you like slowly planning your victory without too much detail then this is a game for you. Also the replayable value is endless.
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Summary: why?????
Review: every turn, I have to tell my cities to stop building military units, then it tells me im broke, because i have built too many units!
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