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Conquer the Computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Civilization 3 takes Civ. 1 and 2 puts them together, beafs of the graphics and ways to win. The creaters have actually managed to make this a hard game. The game gives you more ability to mico-manage everything around you. Also they have installed pesky goveners that think that they know what you want but realy dont have a clue whats going on. It is difficult for beginners because you must expand quickly to gain control of future resorces. If you have played Civ 2 then you know that you can almost atomaticlly bild anything after you have discovered it(except nukes which you must bild the Manhatten Project). Over all this is the best stragy game on the market that actually makes you think.

I'm really disappointed...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love CIV II and Alpha Centauri with a passion, but CIV III has left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I bought CIV III on day one, played it the whole day, and still could not make myself like it in any way. The user interface wasn't thought out enough. They were going for some kind of style, instead of easy of use. The game basics could be a lot better. The technology tree, unit interaction, and Wonders are all lacking indepth game-play thought. I'm selling my CIV III and am going to be very wary if they produce a CIV IV. Don't buy it until you talk to a friend and see it played first.

reccomended with reservations

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

civilization 3 is a very complex game. the ai is excellent, and never before has there been so mush attention to detail. Trading, fighting, strategizing, threat making, rescource gathering, diversity of units, its all here. but there are two main problems:

1: The game is turn based (This doesnt bother me, but it might bother some others)
2: Civilization 3 really doesn't feel like a complete game. it only
has one mode of play, there are a few loose ends that need to be tightened up, and loading large games takes a while. It feels like a beta.

But if you get conquests, all of these problems are solve. you get multiplayer with 3 modes, turn-base, simultaneous, and turnless, with lots of game types, like capture the flag and deathmatch. The addition of historical campaigns to play, like WWII and famous battles and points in history, are great fun to play. There is also a feature called "Civ content" which includes modified versions of the main game. It also added many more units
and civilizations. Although the lack of a skirmish mode remains mystifying, civilization 3 is a great game, conquests or not, but it is lacking a lot without the expansion.

Sad sad decline from the glory of Civilization II

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: November 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Civilization II is my all time favorite computer game. When I lost that game when a computer virus damaged my hard drive I recieved the Third edition of this series. And what a utter crock of $h!t. I am so dissapointed I am almost crying in disbelief.

There are so many thing that completely ruin the qualities of this so called game. First you can't bribe rival units. Second, there is no cheat mode to toggle. Third there is no complete it button to spend money to build improvements, units, or wonders. God, is there no end to this sorry story.

I felt so excited when I got this game for my birthday but when I installed it all it did was crash almost a few minutes after starting and it wrecked my hard drive. Needless to say is that this is nothing but a computer wrecking hunk of garbage.

I personally am going to the computer store and am buying a replacement copie of the Second civilization. This one on the other hand will be sitting on the shelf and collecting dust or heading to the garbage can.

Maybe if my computer is fixed and upgraded this game will be playable and given a higher rating but from where things stand right now this is one of the biggest dissapointments ever.

For those who are rushing out to buy this: Stick with your older versions because all this one will do is eat up hard drive space and ruin your hard drive.

What a letdown!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: March 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed Civ 2 & got hooked on it. But unlike in Civ 2, I can't customize the name or adjective of the civ I play, much less the leader's face--or even gender! I'm stuck with a name like Lincoln or Tokugawa or whoever is the leader of the civ I choose to play. The AI civs are often not courteous to me either. When I lag behind scientifically &/or militarily, these people will demand that I give them some tech advance, the only thing in return being that they refrain from attacking me. Excuse me, but when I give knowledge, I want knowledge in return! Unlike in Civ 2, I can't rush-build Wonders of the World. Thus, when I'm only 2 or 3 turns away from finishing a Wonder, an AI civ beats me to it, which for me means A LOT of production down the drain. The AI civs are also hypocritical when it comes to our troops being in each other's territory. They'll build a city right next to one of my colonies & then tell my troops to get out. But when they move their troops through my territory & I tell THEM to get out, they declare war on me & I find myself outgunned & start losing my cities. All this happens even if I play at the lowest levels of difficulty (Chieftain, Warlord).

If you can endure all this, then by all means buy & play this game. But if it's too much for you, then don't waste a penny or a second. As for me, if a bandaged-faced Lincoln is taunted by his rivals & remembered by his citizens as "the Worthless," so what? I've had enough of this foolishness!

A great game for its time (around four years ago)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I know I'll probably get dinged by people reading this review, but the simple fact is that this was a great game several years ago when Civilization II came out. Now, though, it falls flat of expectations.

Yes, they've revamped the graphics and tweaked the rules, but 95% of the game is exactly the same as Civilization II. There are no significant advances. It's still turn-based, it's still single player only (*very* disappointing), and there is basically no change from Civ II.

My advice: If you're a Civilization fanatic and want a graphically enhanced and slightly tweaked version of Civilization II, get it. If you're looking for something better, consider Age of Empires II Gold (with the Conquerers expansion) from Microsoft. It's cheaper, realtime, multiplayer, and has a lot more variety in game styles and options. Even the single player games are good with challenging computer players and neat campaigns to run.

Sid, you and your games totally rocked (I'm one of the aforementioned Civilization fanatics), but if you release Civilization IV, please give us better reasons to buy it!

Incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow. There is no other word that does this game enough justice. I just recently got this game as a birthday gift, and I haven't shut it off willingly since. When I first started this game, I had minimal experience in Civ II, but I was the undisputed CivNet master. There were quite a lot of changes. I first played for two hours, and subsequently lost five games within that time period. On the easiest skill level. It is easily the most challenging game I have ever played. I hated it at that point, but was hooked, and finally figured out the basics. Now, I can't get enough. It takes some time to get used to it and to grasp the strategies for this game, but the game is definitely worth every penny you spend. Simply amazing.

The diplomacy system gets me the most. It is amazing. I came from CivNet, where diplomacy involved four things: Making advance trades, demanding tribute, making peace, and declaring war. I now can set up resource and luxury trade agreements, have military alliances, mutual protection pacts, trade world maps, give gifts, receive tribute, make peace, declare war, etc. Also, the culture concepts are great as well. The graphics, for a Civ game, are awesome.

I am writing this article from a school computer in the library, after April vacation. I have been in school for forty-five minutes, and I'm experiencing serious withdrawal from this game. Get it. It's worth it.

Here's hoping Civ4 works then...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: August 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think I have wasted more hours of my life playing one or other incarnation of the Civ series than anything else, and I was very eager for Civ3. Crashing disappointment. In the previous games, your borders were defined by the land you owned, and you felt that there was genuine separation between nations based on obstacles or fortresses that you built, and you moved out of there to fight. In the latest incarnation, one of the other "Characters"(Bad, HEAVILY cheating AI) just plops a settler down two squares away from you and because it's outside your "culture" you can't do a thing about it. My galleys sink if the helmsman as much as inches off land, yet I've watched a Roman one sail the oceans blue for 200 years without mishap...did I mention the cheating AI? Classic example, WITHOUT EXCEPTION they will not accept a deal that is even equitable unless you've kicked their butt first. Offer a luxury for one of theirs? Apparently its sufficiently insulting to declare war against you on occasion.
The big spoiler, though, despite the Miracle-Gro(tm) that appears to be at work on enemy cities, wonders and technologies, (a rival civilization with no money, half of the populace and undeveloped land manages to throw together JS Bach's Cathedral five turns before your production-maxed metropolis) is that once you figure out how to beat the AI it is a genuine grind to achieve it. It's slow, and dull, and quite frankly, we deserve better.
List of demands to Firaxis follows:
Bring out Alpha Centauri 2. Make us think. Don't cheat.
Stomping back huffily towards those badly coloured but infinitely more replayable Centauri hills now......

Irritating beyond belief

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game on a low level for about a week and keep getting no where. I feel that I want that part of my life back. The original civ game was reasonably easy to pick up. Civ 2 changed some small aspects but was the same game.

This game has a lot of features which basically aid the A1. The key to doing any good is the access to rescources. The A1 almost always has access to plentiful rescources. It is also able to produce at a faster rate than the game player. In militar conflict the A1 also is aware of the garrison level of the players cities and is able to attack weakly held ones.

The notion about culture and building temples is in the imagination of the designer. The cities controlled by the A1 are able to resist huge amounts of cathederals and no matter how much you build your borders do not expand. (Except occasionally to obscure valueless cities.

Another problem is the fact that units don't work. If you own a tank it will be destroyed by some neathedral warrior with an Axe. The A1's most pathetic units have easy wins all the time. ...

I Wish Better Graphics Weren't the Only Positive Addition

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll warn you before I give my two cents, I played both previous versions of Civilization religiously when they were first released so Sid Meier's classic strategy game is not new ground for my PC gaming tastes. As a matter of fact, that might be my biggest complaint about the second sequel. Except for improved graphics, there really wasn't much of a change between parts two and three. Sure, the trading and espionage system was altered, the wonders changed a little and diplomacy was improved, but if you played Civ 2 as much as I did, you should have no problem diving right into Civ 3. I might have used the in-game Civilopedia for a grand total of fifteen minutes, otherwise it was as if I hadn't even left Civ 2. I still had some classic Civ fun but it didn't last long. I spent more time with strategy games that were nowhere near as good as Civ 3 only because they offered something fresh. Now, if you've never had the pleasure to play a Civilization game, quickly pick the latest edition up because it might be the most addictive strategy game ever. Even to this day, I occasionally find myself reinstalling the game and spending an entire Saturday conquering the world. If you're a Civ fanatic or Civ rookie, I'm sure you'll enjoy the newest addition but for the rest of the PC gaming community, you might want to wait until Civ 3 and all its expansions are packaged together into an economy deluxe edition only so you'll get a chance to play more new content in the sequel. One warning for all gamers: On giant maps with the max amount of civilizations, this game can go slow, ESPECIALLY in later years when the continent is saturated with cities. Civ 3 boasts the best AI of the entire series but I'm not sure a smarter computer opponent was worth the grueling decision making time for the CPU. The game still captures the classic Civ magic we all love but I've played the first two games so often I'd rather see a remake of Alpha Centauri or Colonization which have yet to see a sequel.

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