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Painful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: April 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Here in Amazon it says "Used and new for 2.50". Well, you get what you pay for. You're better off buying a chocolate or giving that money to a homeless person, trust me. I got this game for Chrismas if I remember well, and I have played it only a couple of times. Why? Because it's way too frustrating, tedious, hard. Just painful.

1)I've never managed to finish this game, even in the easisest difficulty setting. The game ends before I can even start the modern ages, and I had lots of scientists and dedicated 100% to science. I don't get it. It's like a race you can't win.

2) The AI cheats! And they don't hide it. I once attacked one civilization, but some moments later every other civ in the world teamed up with that civ and I soon find myself defending my last city against every other nation of the world. Now way. It's you vs. the computer, not you vs. different civs. Besides, you'll discover that the AI has infinite amounts of money and can build anything in a matter of 3 turns.

3) No videos for wonders. Call to power had small videos for each time you built a wonder.

4) You can't attack with more than 1 unit at a time. In Call to Power you could team up 9 units and use them as an army. It even showed the bigger battles with a video.

5) You need to expand your country like crazy to make sure your rivals can't attack you, but the bigger your country is, the more gold you lose by corruption? That's crazy.

6) Spies are completely worthless. They cost WAY too much, and fail 98% of the time.

7) No cheats. I had to download programs to be able to edit my save games. Call to power had a "Cheat" button right in the menu.

It's way too frustrating. The only time I managed to have fun was when I attacked a opposing civ (Which was already weak) and the campaign was very fluid. I took city after city, while I could see that their armies fled across their country when I took a very important spot.

If you are looking for a strategy game, get Hearts of Iron II. Civ III is pure frustration.

Civilization Weak

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game does not draw you in. It is somehow less enticing than Civ II. It is cold, distant, and impersonal, and feels like the rival Call to Power. I hate to admit it, but Call to Power is better than this version of Civ., because call to power has neat stuff, such as underwater and space colonies. I did not find any cool units in this game, nor any cool concepts. "Culture" is a trick. It does not enrich the game, and often makes the conquest of cities frustrating because citizens rebel and overthrow you--give me a break. What this game calls "culture" is an empty word. Apparently you have to build temples in all your cities and feverishly construct "wonders of the world" to gain culture. Slow and uninspring, this game lacks any new imagination. There has been no progress made since Civ II in terms of spicing the game up and making it more interesting.

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the greatest game i have ever played. I don't no why everybody doesn't rate this a five star game.

Civ 3 would make a great strategy game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: August 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Civ 3 would make a great strategy game. What I like best about the game is the concept of it. The idea is fabulous. The graphics are good and the sound affects are fine.
The problems are in the gameplay. How can you make an effective strategy with an "AI" (roll eyes) that not only plays according to its own (more favorable) rules but also leaves you with no way to know what those amended rules are?
Intelligence is not merely a subroutine that adjusts how much the game cheats according to how much it needs in order to to survive, it is largely the ability to play ahead. The computer that beat the world chess champion did not turn its knight into a queen when convenient, it beat them by using bona fide artificial intelligence.
Expect plenty of suprises. While passing by an enemy city, you may see a terrain space suddenly become developed without a worker anywhere nearby. Or notice that the "AI" always knows which of your cities is poorest defended without needing an embassy or spy. Or early in the game enemy units may make a wartime b-line to your civilization when it shouldn't even know where it is yet. Etc etc etc. I beleive but can't prove, that your military units are made less effective than equivelent ai ones too during battle.
Later in the game, your active unit cursor will jump place to place all over the world instead of going to the next nearest unit (like it did in civ 2) as if in an effort to try to make you lose track of what you are doing, I suppose this is to "make the game more challenging" or something. Very anoying.
The new features (culture, diplomacy etc.) are great ideas largely gone wrong too. Same problem, basically: the game makes the human player a protagonist instead of just an undesciminated player creating the illusion of playing against 15 others when in reality the only thing your playing against is one ai player with a slight case of multiple personality disorder.
I find that almost every strategy I make with this game is defeated by unexpected, uncalculatable and unanticipatable adjustments to the rules by the AI. I have heard others say they win the game and I have too, but I don't beleive without repeated reloadings. Civ 3, like civ 2, is an action game that would make a great strategy game. But the idea of the game is so great that it is addictive anyway.

The game that is illogical

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game defies all logic. The computer routinely undertakes illogical endeavors that make the game more frustrating than fun. As an avid fan of the prior civilization games, I find this one to be utterly senseless. It is nealry impossible to compete with the computer because it is able to complete similar operation in half the time. I would suggest that consumers look elsewhere for a good developmental game. Look back to Civilation Call to POwer or Civ 2; it'll be far more enjoyable.

Yawn

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: August 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Same old stuff. Another rip off. If you've got the other Civs dont bother.

Disappointing sequel

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I own Civilization 1,2 & 3 and have played them all extensively & obsessively. Civ 3 is a waste of time. Gameplay takes too long compared to Civ 2 (the best). I still play it (Civ 2)from time to time and have finished it at the diety level. Civ 3 remains in its box. Frankly, I bought it because I enjoyed Civ 2 so much.

Not recommended. The only saving grace is the graphics.

BIGGEST DISSAPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed both CivI and CivII. I fell that Civ III on the other hand is not well developed. In the older games I liked the units politcis econemy and the scenarios. Civ III has no real improvements save for grafics. It is a slow a boring game and I would reccomend to everyone DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

The master is at it again...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 34
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The original team that developed Civilizations I & II, and the critically acclaimed Alph Centauri is back again. The newest Civilizations incoroprates tons of new features including a completely overhauled diplomacy interface, making trade much more important and valuable. This looks to be the best one yet...

No multiplayer support, but otherwise good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's like previous CIV's, with better graphics and sound, and a lot of rules changes that are, for the most part, well thought out. If you've played previous CIVs, read the manual to get the changes, because some will significantly change your strategy.

HOWEVER, it does not yet support multiplayer. If you like playing by yourself, buy the game. If you like multiplayer CIVs, then hang onto your CIV II Multiplayer for a while longer until CIV III Play the World becomes available.

One bug I saw -- the "establish an embassy button" mentioned by but not pictured by the manual, which is supposed to appear once you have writing and contact with other nations, does not seem to exist.

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