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Play Nobody

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This expansion is entitle Play the World. The entire premise of the expansion is that you can play Civ 3 with other people. You can't. Plain and simple, attempting to play this game over the internet, as intended, will result in either high blood pressure or rediscovering the joys of reading. When it works at all, it works unbelievably slowly.

I just don't understand how this game can run this slowly over the internet. I've played games of Starcraft, in the days before high speed connections, in which several players with hundreds of units each did battle simultaneously at perfectly acceptable speeds. So why, years and many tech advances later, is it impossible for Play the World to deliver even moderately acceptable gameplay in a game in which myelf and one other player have only 6 units on the map between us, all of which move one at a time? Its ridiculous.

The lag is even bad when you aren't trying to move units. Just clicking on a menu button to make a selection will result in several seconds of lag before the menu appears. Making your choice results in similar lag, and trying to close the menu is even worse. It can take you 30 seconds to changes something as simple as your tax rate.

Wait six months to see if they can make this piece of junk run at anything approaching a playable speed before you buy it. If you bought a car that was as badly made as this game it would explode the first time you turned on the radio.

Do not buy this expansion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack is horrible. The multiplayer part is a disaster and the little additions that were added are not worth the 30 dollars the game costs. I have a cable modem and the game still does not work. I have had over 100 crashes and have not been able to play the game online yet!! I was a huge civilization fan until now, this could turn me off to their future games due to the fact that i feel like i threw my 30 bucks down the toilet bowl....

Multiplayer no, Mulitproblem yes!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The only reason someone would buy this expansion pack is to play multiplayer Civ. That is really what this expansion offers. Well, let me assure you, this system is so full of bugs, so user-unfriendly, and so poorly designed that after 2 hours, me and my friend were still unable to play together online.

First, to play the game online you must go through Gamespy, an internet site. Now, you can launch the multiplayer mode from Civ 3 itself, but not be able to find friends or see who you could play, let alone invite them. You have to enter through the Gamespy program instead, and select Civ 3 as your game there. Don't worry, there are tons of ads to amuse you while you try and fail to launch the game.

Personally, I had many "firewall errors" because of my router, so I opened the ports. The errors still showed up (?), so I disconected the router and went stright from the modem. Still, the errors persisted. There is no online customer service at Gamespy, so I get to try and "figure it out myself".

I want the multiplayer simplicity offered by Age of Mythology. I love Civ 3, but this system seems hopelessly outdated already.

The best Civilization yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack includes everything I've ever wanted in Civilization III. It adds new civilizations and new maps! You can set your maps to be historically correct to see what and how your favorite civilizations mastered their terrain and their neighbors. It adds new techonologies, wonders, units, everything. You cant play Civilization III without first buying this expansion pack because I can hardly imagine my playing experience without it.

This Game is Awful ( minus 5 stars)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Simply put this Expansion pack doesn't work. "Multiplayer" is totally unplayable. Lag times are terrible. Not to mention the "crashes", "drops", etc. I have yet to talk to one person that has totally played a reasonable online game.

The extra features - most of which can be found for free, or should have been made availalbe for free.

Keep in mind there was a "Patch" for this game before the game even was released. One professional reviewer called it "an Unneccesary Add On"

Take my advice - unless you can purchase this for about..., spend your money on something worthwhile. I've already sent mine back.

Thanks for your time.

They better make another one...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game pretty much only for the online capabilities,
When it was brought home i was VASTLY dissapointed. The multiplayer didnt work for me nor most of the other people playing, It suffers severe lag and load times, and it didnt seem quite finished. I, myself, never made it to a Multiplayer game, so I wouldnt recomend buying this game to play with your friends.The addition of new units and civs was a nice touch but thats the only thing keeping this at 2 stars.

What a rip-off

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Only the slugs at Apolyton could manage to get people to pay [to much money] for a single computer game. Why wasn't CivIII multiplayer from the start like CivII? Easy. It wasn't multiplayer because they wanted to make saps pay [even more money] in order to get the "play the world" expansion!

[Not considered an Exspansion]

Avoid this product like the plague and buy CivII instead.

Best Strategy Game just got better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a veteran of more hours of Civ3 than my wife cares for, I can honestly say that this expansion pack vastly improves the game. The new factions, new improvements and units, not to mention the many ways to play multiplayer ... this is a solid hit, an impressive upgrade to an all-time classic, and sure to provide hours of enjoyment. Kudos to the coders in Owings Mills, y'all rock.

Could it get better? Oh it could, and it did!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought Civ III, I was amazed at how in depth, challenging, and great the game was. I didn't think it could get any better! Eventually, though, I realized I had a desire to test my skills against real opponents - and I realized that without multiplayer, that couldn't be done.

So there was a void. And now it has been filled.

Not only have we been provided with awesome multiplayer options, including everyone's favorite Hotseat Mode, it tacked on a whole pile of new features as well. There are new game modes, like simultaneous and turnless games. There are new civilizations like the Koreans and (my favorite) the Carthaginians. New improvements like outposts and airfields are added to give your military that extra edge, and new units give your civilization even more possibilities. There's even a scenario editor to create scenarios of any type from almost any time.

To say the least, this expansion is well worth every penny and a must-have for the serious Civ gamer. To say the most, this is hands down one of the greatest additions to an already great series I've ever seen. Three cheers for Sid Meier and crew for Civ III: Play the World!

Highly provocative!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 49
Date: September 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have the original CivII and III, and I have wasted all to many hours on this wonderful game over the years. I find it really annoying that a standard feature in virtually every new game these days (multiplayer over the Internet) is released as an Expansion Pack. That's really all there is to it. Sure, they throw in some other stuff to, but they are really just trying to sell the same game twice, just like they did with CivII. I haven't made up my mind whether I'll buy it or not, but I certainly don't like this trend.

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