Video Games : Sid Meier's Civilization 3 Complete

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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Aspyr
EAN: 0618870111803
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: CD
Label: Aspyr Media
Manufacturer: Aspyr Media
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Aspyr Media
Release Date: January 08, 2006
Sales Rank: 5092
Studio: Aspyr Media

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Features the original Sid Meier's Civilization III, and two expansion packs: Play The World and Conquests.

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Time Magazine calls Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete the "Greatest Computer Strategy Game of All-Time." Featuring Civilization III plus the Play the World Multiplayer and Conquests expansion packs, Civilization III: Complete offers you more ways to win, more pathways to explore, and more strategies to employ as well as exciting new online modes of play.



Plot a path to victory by matching wits with history's greatest leaders. View larger.


Civilization III: Complete offers the most detailed and beautiful art, animation and sound ever found in the genre. View larger.


Employ the latest military technology -- if warlike conquest is your strategy. View larger.


Set up gameplay scenarios that challenge your skills. View larger.
When it was first created in 1990, the original Civilization instantly set the standard and defined a new genre of empire-building strategy games. Still recognized as one of the greatest games of all time, Civilization was an addictive blend of building, exploration, discovery and conquest. Players matched wits against some of history's greatest leaders as they strove to build the ultimate civilization that would ultimately stand the test of time.

That legacy of excitement and conquest continues with Civilization III: Complete, featuring the updated and enhanced multiplayer expansion pack Civilization III: Play the World, as well as all of the great new Civs, Scenarios, and Features from Civilization III: Conquests! Among the numerous enhancements include new interactions, alliances and realistic artificial intelligence responses that put players in the middle of negotiations, trade systems and diplomatic actions. Also new is an advanced trade system to manage resources, trade routes and spread of technology, as well as improved combat options that provide finer levels of control for enhanced war-making capabilities.

New Technologies, Wonders Of The World and Great People expand the scope of the game, while new elements of Culture, Nationality and the Arts help players plan a new peaceful pathway to victory. The game also includes a new active world generator for more realistic maps and organic terrain features, as well as the most detailed and beautiful art, animation and sound ever found in the genre. With the easier-to-use interface, you'll experience streamlined management and better control as you navigate through the levels.

Civilization III: Play the World Features
In addition to the multiplayer modes that include turn-based and simultaneous game types, appearing for the first time in a Civilization game is a turn-less mode. You can ace off against the best Civilization players worldwide with fast-paced multiplayer games like Elimination, Domination, Regicide and Capture the Flag. Also included are eight new Civilizations, featuring new leaders including Genghis Khan Temujin, King Hannibal, Queen Isabella and King Brennus, as well as all new units that will challenge your diplomatic and combat skills. An enhanced scenario editor, including new unit and tile sets, lets you construct a scenario from any time period. You can also strengthen your empire with new map features, like outposts, airfields and radar towers, new guerilla and medieval infantry units, and new wonders and city improvements. An updated interface improvements allow for more efficient management, and a dazzling new opening cinematic and combat animations bring your civilization world to life like never before.

Civilization III: Conquest Features
With Conquest, the operative word is "more." You get seven more powerful civilizations, from the innovative Sumerians to the mystical Mayans. More units lets you use Trebuchets to batter down the enemy's walls, or Sumerian Enkidu Warriors to quickly gain military dominance. More technical features give you the tools to map the world using satellites. But beware, there are also more dangers, such as volcanoes and other disasters. Best of all, there are many more improvements to the game, including improvements to the AI, Combat System, Interface, Rally Points, Governors, Leaders, Unit-Stacks, and even Game Balance.

All told, Civilization III: Complete is a game of epic proportions, the ultimate 3-in-1 box set that will give you endless hours of addictive entertainment.



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - i have a question
i used to have the origanal civ three and it was great. does this run on a mac g5? on the product page it says mac but on the checkout it says windows dvd. ??? is that normal or am i acedentally going to buy a microsot game???


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Civ 3
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The Civilizations series produces the best strategy games on the market, bar none. The game came in fine working order but the serial number to activate the game was missing. I had to wait a whole weekend to get Aspyr on the phone to get a new one so I could play. In the long run, not the worst thing that could have happened, but it was a serious killjoy when the package arrived.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great upgrade to CIV III
Much more sophisticated AI system. Added Civs are nice and make game play more varied. Excelent upgrade to orginal CIV III game.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - fighting is bad
i found that the defence on all the units is massive compared to the attck. and the bombardment feater is pittifull it takes the point out of cannons. overall the games defencive nature made it way too easy. i could beat the game easly with a few highly concentrated attaks and waiting and waiting and waiting. the diplomatic relaitions was made much better but one had to have ten units to take down 2 fortifyed units in a city. (exagerated) this made the game imposible easy if you played peasfully and defencivly but imposible if you play all all out war. you just grind forward inch by inch and it becaums more a resorce war then stratigy. i found i was bord with all dificultys fast. i however loved civ2 with was great and much more dificult.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Good, Clearly Lacking In Some Departments
Civ 3 for the Mac is another edition of the highly-successful Civ series and Sid Meier deserves kudos for another strong product. Gameplay is entertaining and a clear step up in many ways from its 1996 predecessor. Civ 3 succeeds in being a strategy game, but not one so thick with the strategies that it`ll take months to master it all.

That said I was disappointed by what was not present in the Civ 3: Complete package released by Aspyr. Civ 3 has cut out the Cheat Mode, one of the most noticeable features of Civ 2. The Cheat mode, a backdoor into the inner workings of the game, was the tunnel through which much of the game`s content could be altered by players. As a result of its absence the game is far harder to customize and tinker with. Also missing is the map editor, a feature which saw heavy use by Civ 2 fanatics (just check out the size of some online databases.) The Scenario Editor, through which Civ 2 could be turned into almost any strategy game, has been shown the door. My understanding is that several of these elements were included in the PC version so why aren`t they present for the Mac?

In gameplay terms Civ 3 is a clear triumph over its predecessor. I just wish we hadn`t sacrificed all that customizability in the meantime to get here.

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