Amazon.com Product Description: Rewrite history with Civilization III. Experience a game of epic proportions where players can match wits against the greatest leaders of the world in an all-out quest to build the ultimate empire. Your journey of discovery includes new features that build on the Civilization experience. You get new pathways to explore, strategies to employ, and more powerful tools to build and manage your empire.
Dominate the world through diplomatic finesse, cultural domination, and military prowess. New technologies, wonders of the world, and great people expand the scope of the game. Improved combat options provide finer levels of control for enhanced war-making capabilities. More interactions, alliances, and realistic AI responses put players in the middle of negotiations, trade systems, and diplomatic actions.
There's an advanced trade system to manage resources, trade routes, and spread of technology. New elements of culture, nationality, and the arts help players plan and focus empire-building efforts. An active world generator creates more realistic maps and organic terrain features. Complete game editor screens allow for advanced customization.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - By Far the WORST Civ release of all time
The Mac version is crippled compared to the PC version due to the absence of an editor. There was a beta version of the editor, but it hardly worked reliably. The game is incredibly slow on the Mac, on a large map, be prepared to wait five or more minutes on a PowerMac G4 1GHZ with 1Gb of RAM between turns (and that is bottom line, turns can frequenlty take much longer). The AI is absolutely stupid, war breaks out all the time and there is little one can do about it. Alliances are silly. The diplomatic options overall are just crippled and lame (a backward step from Civ II). The ONLY thing this game has going for it is lots of good press and nice looking graphics. Don't even think about using a nuke on a city with an airport, roads connected, or a harbor... the game will freeze after the explosion for approximately three minutes before letting you continue. These issues have not been observed on the PC. Buy Civ IV as that appears to be a far more enjoyable, fast, well thought out version of this title.
Rating: - More than I Expected
I don't play many computer games but a couple of Amazon.com reviews made Civilization 3 seem worth the investment and in the short few weeks I've had the game it has paid huge dividends. While I enjoy the escape it offers, starting with a warrior and moving through the various ages that defined the competing civilizations in our world is a "blast". What I appreciate most about the game, though, is the effect its had on my ten year old son. The game has helped him formulate some really cool questions, like "Dad, what is Sun Tzu's Art of War?"
Rating: - This game sucks!
Even though the concept of this game is great, the fighing between units sucks. Tanks, modern armor, and most strongest infantry units will get their a**es whooped by archers and wariors with sticks. It's screwed up!! Plus, you can't kill any units with bombardments from battleships and the bombs from planes can't sink ships or kill land units. It's really cheap.
Rating: - Civilization III Rocks
Civ3 is a great strategy game that tests your skills of ruling an empire. It is really easy to use, especially if you customize the rule in the CivIII Editor. Civ3 has okay graphics, but that can be overlooked since the rest of the game is excellent.
Rating: - Terrific
This game is totally addictive. It can be a little boring if you don't tweak the options to not show you every little move the game makes. Once that is done you're good to go. With three diferent map sizes and six {?) different map styles the possibilities are endless. You can even choose the type of climate you want! And you don't have to always be the Americans either. There is a whole clan of rival civilizations to choose from. Not to mention the different degrees of difficulty to choose from! There is like eight or so to choose from. I've been playing this game for 2 years now and I still haven't played all the different choices to choose from. Like I said, I've been playing this game for two years and it's still as addictive as when I first picked it up. I highly recommend it!
- By Far the WORST Civ release of all time
- More than I Expected
- This game sucks!
