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Summary: what a disappointment
Review: 1. Exhausting
2. Fustrating
I had a city full of f 15s and not one bombing raid hit, this game is a complete waste of time to play, not enjoyable at all. Dont waste your money on this game, buy Civ 2.
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Summary: Not as good as Civ II
Review: After carefully reading all the reviews I finally bought my own copy of Civ III. First, if you are not sure whether you like strategy games, do not start with this one. For those who have played Civ and/or Civ II (which I have) this review is more for you. Civ III is a low budget version of Civ II that corrects some of the problems with Civ II but looses much of the magic that made Civ II so much fun to play. For example, gone are the actors who would evolve with your advance from cavemen and cave women to Elvis, General Patton, etc. Instead we have gone back to a Civ I approach where your advisors are inanimate goofs that do not give you any helpful advice. "Compared to them your military is unimpressive." Unfortunately "them" is never defined. Plus, although you can play with up to 16 diferrent civiliazations as opponents, you only communicate with 8 of them ! Where is the logic in that. The instruction manual [is not good]. It took me forever to figure out what to click on to start an embasy in a foreign nation. All told, Civilization is still a great game. Compared to Civ II, though, Civ III lacks style and fun. If the creators ever combine Civ II with Civ III and create a Civ IV I think we will have the perfect game.
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Summary: Quench Your Thirst for Strategy
Review: Are you looking for a Turn-based strategy game with all the bells and whistles, that will make you look for paper and pencil to plan your approach? If the answer is yes, then this game is for you.
Not to scare anyone, the game can be simply entertaining if you play it at the easier difficulty settting, but as you move it up a little and other civilizations start comming at you, let's just say you will need to know your weapons, city production settings, diplomacy, trade, army skills etc.There will always be a way to cheat around the game, especially when you start to get frustrated (I have seen how this game is not for everyone), however, as a strategy game fan looking for a well done game with excellent graphics, units, and plot, on a medium difficulty setting this game can keep me busy for weeks! I love it.
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Summary: Lm's idea of the game
Review: BEST GAME EVER!!!! I passed an test (yes a test) due to this game...alot of the civilzations did help, like.. what year did the first samuria appear in japan, i got it right and got a 98% on the test! MUST HAVE IF YOU WANT TO PASS 7TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDYS/HISTORY
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Summary: Best Sim Out There For People Who Actually Enjoy a Challenge
Review: Civ III is the best board-game I have ever played (and that's saying something). It is also the most interesting sim-style game I have come across. This game is not for the weak of mind or heart. Game play can be tedious at times, later in the game, when your civilization grows large, and the game as a whole actually requires some thinking and strategy to play. All in all, if you are the type who likes to play a game for fun...and likes an actual mental challenge, this game is for you.
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Summary: A sham Civ
Review: CIV3 is unrelated to the Civ2 and SMAC. It is only a CIV in name. The real heir to the CIV series is Rise of Nations designed by Brian Reynolds, the same person who designed CIV2 and SMAC. CIV III is a poorly designed game on half baked ideas. The game is dummer (no pun intended). The AI is dummer (it knows nothing of diplomacy) and the 'puter cheats harder. It is, however, winnable if you out-cheat the 'puter. Save often, fight wars, try verious fighting sequence at the same turn until you have produced a leader. You are on your way to winning at any level. It is a laborious and boring way to playing. But what can I say, it is a poorly designed boring game.
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Summary: There has never been better turn-based strategy
Review: Civilization 3 is without a doubt the best turn-based strategy game on the market. I have owned this game since it first came out and I still pick it up and play at least a couple of times a month. Unfortunately, because it is a turn-based game, there is quite a bit of time when you'll be waiting for the computer to take its turn(s). This is more than made up for by the complexity of the game. Players must balance not only their military and their economy, but also must take into account their "culture", the happiness of their people, and their technological advancement. Watch your civilization grow and thrive from the days of old, all the way through the space age. I wholeheartedly reccomend this title to anyone who is looking for a strategy game with plenty of detail.
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Summary: Why "game of the year"?
Review: Civilization II is a great game that I played for long hours . Starting a new game was always like starting a new book. The infinite details that you should take care off and the adjustment of the right balance between might, wealth and development is amazing and requires a lot of patience and intelligence. The game could even change your point of view to lot of things in every-day life! When I first bought Civ. III, I was actually expecting higher graphic, better tools to control the game and smarter ideas. Unfortunately, none of these was available. Instead, the game became more complicated (with details that you definitely cannot acquaint and deal-with in each civilization build-up), boring and unnecessary lengthened in some parts. The music is almost awful, the graphic is better than Civ. II but not matching today's standards and battles are less enthusiastic with incomprehensive rules of winning and loosing. Civ. III get one star rate in comparison to Civ. II, but I gave it 3 stars in comparison to other RTS. Hoping that Civ. IV would be an upgrade and not a set-back.
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Summary: Eyecandy over substance
Review: First of all, let me make it clear that I am an old Civ series fan. I played it back in 1993 on the Mac and Amiga, and I've loved it since then. But Civilisation 3 is a sorry affair. To make a long story short: Stroing points:
+ Good, detailed graphics
+ Sound less repetitive than Civ II
+ Generally simpler interface than precursors
+ Somewhat easier city management
+ Generally an interesting simulation The downsides:
- As another poster wrote, the diplomacy system is a joke. It has an interesting form, but it is confusing in the end.
- Insane difficulty level, even at the lower diff. settings. Computer players get technologies way faster than you do, and their civilisation grows much faster, as well. Very unfair!
- as said elsewhere, the tech advances tree is almost the same as Civ I & 2, which is boring and disappointing! Same is to be said for city improvements.
- Boring and "accellerated" archaic ages... from 4000 BC to 0 AD, there are almost no advances happening, compared to the former Civ Games, and this part of the game feels very "hollow". Summarised, I am thoroughly disappointed by this game, and I'm at a loss to explain why Sid Meier & the game designers did not include the huge advances we saw iN Alpha Centauri - highly customizable social designs, build-your-own units, etc. It feels like Civ I with new graphics slapped on top. Oh, yeah, dont forget that the original Civ took up 5 MB of HD space. This gigant takes up 100 times that! :( THUMBS DOWN!
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Summary: You haven't seen nothin till you've see this!!!
Review: Hey all you kids out there! Why don't you take this roller coaster ride. I've had this game for a year now and I still can't waste a second to play it! No, really. Try it out some time this year or get it for christmas.I just have to tell you something, the instruction manual is 1 inch thick or 350pages long(I'm not sure if its 350 pages or not! Maby more!). But hey it gets the job done. Just to tell you something, I didn't use the manual. If figured it out in just 1 and 1/2 hours(I'm pretty sure the manual would take longer to read). That shall be all.
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