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A great game, a ture classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you even ever play a turn-based game and liked it, I would highly recommed Civilation 3. The game is one of the best of its kind. Challengeing, fun, and a perfect learning curve. But this comes with time. At first when I got this game I thought I had bought a poorly game with good graphics. But after making myself play for hours I came understand why the game has the "annoying" features. Features like demands, towns turn over to a another empire, ect.

The games A.I is great, the best I have in a turn base game. Just has impressive is the trading. Things you do at start of game will come in play with trading. Say you wipe out the Rome(for no reason) at 2250 b.c. Later at 1955 a.d civilations will view you has a hostile empire and not trade. This is very annoying but make you rethink delcaring war. Another great bonus is the good graphics and good sound.

I highly recommed this game. But if you don't have time it is shoveware. It takes around 30 hours just to get good. Other than that it is a great game.

The finest example in its class

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's too bad that this title has taken a bad rap from those who simply don't understand it. This game is truly the finest of its type, but if it's not your type, your not going to like it. That doesn't make it any worse or better a game, just because some poor bloke thinks it should play like age of empires or warcraft (or any other rts). Be warned, if your looking for something fast paced, that can be played by the casual action gamer, this is not for you. But if you want something hearty, that takes real strategy, thinking and depth, you can find no better. I have lost many a night's sleep because of this game. As for the multiplayer component, you can always buy the play the world expansion. If this is your type of game, get it now! You won't regret it.

CIvIII and prejudiced reviews

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 28
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First I would like to say that I have been following the development from a gamer's perspective for quite some time, and everything I have seen about this game- from screenshots, write-ups, to preview movies- has shown that CivIII will be included as one of the new millenium's hottest games.

As for anyone who has anything bad to say about this game (which has not been released YET, and is scheduled to be available October 30th 2001), they are just plain idiots! More specifically, Mohammad Al Qattan's review is utter nonsense, as he, and no one outside of the Firaxis/Infogrames staff, has seen this game. Mohammad, your opinions of things that you have absolutely NO information about are quite useless, as is your total lack of taste.

Simcity versus Civilization? Are you joking??

Great Successor, Great new game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought Civilization 3 when it first came out, back in the day. Frankly, it stunk. It wasn't fun, there were balance problems, and it was impossible to create a global empire.

You know what? Things have changed.

There is a patch out for this game on the official site, and it makes a world of difference. There are additions and fixes to the game that address all the playability issues that I had when I first played.

The other thing that changed was me. I played Civ and Civ II, and I loved them both. They were basically the same game, but Civ II was _more_. It was more complicated, more advanced, gave you different options. But it played about the same way.

Civ III is different. It's a similar game, but it's not the same-old from the first two repackaged in new graphics, with more options. The concepts are different, the way you build your empire is different. It's a game that appeals to you in the same way the first two did, but the strategies are new and different, and it makes for a really rewarding gaming experience.

I've recently started playing again, and I'm hooked all over again. This is still a great game that's a lot of fun to play and really hard to pull yourself away from.

If you've time to waste

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game out there for those who like a combination of chess and nation building.

You will have a better understand of world history after playing this game and successfully building a dominant nation.

Be forewarned however. FPS fans won't like the turned-based play. Those who love it can become addicted and will have to destroy or sell the CD when they look out their window to see the sun coming up and they have to be at work in 2 hours.

fun game with lots of replay but some downsides too

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Civ III is a extremely fun and challenging game. Do you become the high-tech small country or the huge, vast, lower-tech empire. Although it is theoretically possible to be a high-tech giant, it borders the impossible line a little too close for me. Another thing is the extremely short game time compared to the amount of research you must do. Feel lucky if you reach the Indutrial age before the end of the game and you have more than two cities. Only once have I been able to reach the Modern Age before the game ended and that was only two or three turns before the end of the game. The game should last about a hundred turns longer if you ask me. I want to meet one person who has seen the Spaceship without some serious cheating. That person should win a prize or something.

Aside from that small gripe, the game really has no other downsides. One small thing that bugs me is that Swordsmen do not upgrade into somthing else, so if you don't disband them, you can have a Swordsman in the Modern Age, that is somewhat stupid.

The political system is somewhat whacked if you ask me. Ex: I was a large, powerful country with middle tech, had a large group of cavalry. Anyway the Aztec leader (he has maybe three cities and my military advisor is laughing at the pathedicness o his armies) demands something from me. Red flag one, small weak never demands anything from large and powerful, even the simplest AI should know that. Red Flag two, when I refused, the Aztec declared war on me, that just sound absurd. It took me maybe 2 turns to annihilate him. I hope the next game has some smarter AI programs

Fun game to play if you have some spare time, but there have been better, lots better.

Too addicting!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game makes you forget what time it is and sometimes what day it is. You just keep wanting to do one more thing and it never stops!

It's fun but keep a clock with one of those annoying hourly chimes on it around so at least once an hour you'll realize that you're still on Earth and time is passing by!

would love to play it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love the other Civi 2 series games and have them all. Test of Time is my favorite so I was really looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, over 4 1/2 months, six calls to technical support and a new monitor, I can't get it installed enough to see if it will work. I have never seen so many bugs in my life. Technical support tried but I am getting error messages about allocating warp buffers, hard drive space (with 2 GB free mind you), and other error messages. I never had any trouble with Civ2 and its offspring but I took this back to the store. They had had so many complaints that they let me return it even though I was past the time for a full refund.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has kept me up all night sooo many times....its crazy. This really a great game. I must quote another reviewer "If you have to buy just one strategy game this decade, I have no hesitation in recomending this one."

I have played this game many times, and I disagree with reviewers who exagerate the AI cheating. It does in a couple ways mentioned, but the rest are just misunderstanding that can be answered by reading an online FAQ. The AI is tough and its very difficult past medium difficulty...I mean a lot! But on easy...its easy and fun...

I like the cultural boundries. My startegy is to always build cultural structures and I expand my civ by "sucking in" those computer cities around me. The graphics are great for this type of game, an the charcters are entertaining.

The only bad thing is at the end of the game when everyone that has survived has a huge/powerful civ and their armies take forever to move/attack, and it takes a while to defeat. I don't even think I have won that way. Still, I highly recommend. It takes days to get to the end! its realistic, sometimes you get lucky and start in an area with many natural resources...if ou don't..u need some allies!!!

Civilization3 -bad news on Win XP & Lousy Support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A blue banner "mode no support" appeared in the center of the screen every time I tried to play the game.I tried the various video modes and compatiblity mode but nothing worked.I searched the Civ3 site and downloaded the reccomended patch but to no avail.Upon calling tech support I was bounced from one taped menu to another for 9 minutes and 44 secounds before I was finaly given the option to speak to someone. However,there was no one avaliable and I was put on hold ; as they do not provide an 800 number this long distance call was about to cost me more than the game itself.Out of frustration I hung-up .

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