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Fun Fun Fun! I give it 5 stars!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 143
Date: August 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is really, really cool, and yes, as the title suggests, it is indeed about Chinese food. It has been improved vastly over the original, for it only freeses up when you refrain from pressing any buttons for five seconds, pause, or try to save your game (or pick your nose, or breathe, or not breathe.) Also, the graphics have been extensively upgraded, because they are now in color. You'd just better hope that the problem in which the game seizes control over U.S. nuclear missiles and launches them into foreign nations selected at random has been corrected (rumors of such appeared when the prequel came out.) My favorite part of Civilization 3 was when the I.R.S. audits the non-deductible toilet, thereby preventing the flushing of the Claustrophobian race and enabling (with the help of Richard Nixon) the destruction of the evil communist Zertogerator XVII before the Coming Of The 3rd Booger without accessing mode 17-alpha, which is, of course, very important (as you should know if you've ever played the prequel) because it triples the equilibrium of the indispensable discount coupon on frozen vegetables. That way, you can reduce global warming by the square of the hypotenuse multiplied by the sum of the two sides in a right triangle. (And thereby waste Even More time!) Civilization 3 also has a very user-friendly interface, because you can now use the keyboard and mouse. Help your environment by buying this game, because, in order to run the full 2 Meg. Version, you must first shut off everything you own that consumes electricity (aside from this game, you nitwit!) If you act now, you get a free attachment that messes up your tax forms! Don't let the fact that it's a dos game deter you (so what if it doesn't work if you have Windows on your computer and displays an error message every two seconds.) Buy This Game Now! The prequel too. (Because its there! Don't waste your money on something you actually want!) Then you can get to the end where Bill Gates takes over the world and see the following ms-dos prompt: "Thank you for making Bill Gates even richer!" "Bill Gates Rules-He's a Genius!" "Bill Gates Rules-He's a Genius!" "Bill Gates Rules-He's a Genius!" -add infinitem. (P.S. try typing Bill Gates as your name when you play.) And you are getting sleepy... Very sleepy... Your eyelids are getting heavy... You will buy this game... You will do what I say... You will give me all your money... And your house (or apartment, or trailer, or cardboard box, or whatever the *BLEEP* you live in...) And your kidneys...

Don't waste time and money on this joke of a game!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: June 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Worst Civ game i've ever bought,played it 3 times and smashed it into about 5 pieces and threw it in trash.Will never buy another Sid Meier game again,Hope there happy how they ruined A good game.Civ II test of time is my game they can keep civ3.

Comes Down To The AI

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: August 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

HI

The truth is i want an AI that competes and doesn't cheat...Brian Reynolds was the true Brians at Firaxis obviously.

Civ 3 has a pathetic AI that cheats on every level..The programming of Jeff Briggs and crew is pathetic.

I'd love to see a new Alpha Centauri Or a civ 4 with great AI...Sigh.

It ain't worth your money and time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Civ3 is a defective beta quality game with bugs and performance problems. I love all the other Civ games including alpha centouri. Playing Civ 3 in comparison is no FUN and not EXCITING, but a lot of boring WORK like cleaning up pollutions. You cannot get emmotionally involved with the play as you would with Civ2, 'cause Inforgrame took out the talking high council and the wonder video clips. Because of the lack of the human touch you feel you are not playing against any other civilizations.

The only good things in Civ 3, the concepts of culture, the civ-specific abilities and the resources, are overwhelmed by the flaws of this half-baked product.

A giant step backward!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: June 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is an order of magnitude more frustrating than Civ II.
It is nearly impossible to win at the Chieftain level without replaying moves. And that is ridiculous.

Civ II is the ultimate strategy game and subsequent versions just don't measure up.

this is to counter balance the people who gave it 5 stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: November 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

yes lots and lots of people gave this game 5 stars even though it hadn't even shipped. Most of the people who actually bought the game didn't like it so this should even out the overall score a little. Maybe not.

Can be fun.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pro's:
- Tons of fun at the higher ages.
- Requires good strategy and logical thinking skills.
- Lets you rebuild history.

Con's:
- Takes a VERY long time to get to a higher age.
- Imbalanced combat. Example: My military advisor told me to get archers because they're better than warriors; then when my archer engaged in combat with a warrior he was easily defeated by the warrior.
- Half of the time you're going to be hitting spacebar to skip your turn.
- No online/multiplay capabilites (unless you waste your money on an expansion).
- Can't choose a starting age.
- No campaign/story mode.
- Can sometimes take way too long to finally finish a game.

Final Verdict:
The cons outnumber the pro's and even though this game can be quite fun at times, it has way too many major issues and if you want them fixed then you'll need to pay extra money for expansion packs.

A Classic, Upgraded

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Everybody's favorite strategy game has now appeared in its third incarnation, and its bigger and better than ever. It looks better and plays better (if a bit too slowly). And there are several new ways to win--including the familiar world conquest and space-ship methods, as well as diplomatic victory and cultural victory. There's also a "histographic" victory--i.e., if you have the most points when the game ends (2050), you da man (or woman). (Alpha Centaurians will be disappointed, however, to discover that there is no economic victory--sorry all you Libertarians!)

But it's not for the casual player. Those expert Civ2 addicts who used to complain that the AI was too easy should be more than satisifed now. It's far more clever now. But the casual player will probably find it virtually impossible to beat it, even on the lower levels. The game play is more realistic: you can't build units until you have the resources to do so (want a musketman? you better have or trade for saltpeter). There's a flaw, though--you may find your source of oil has been mysteriously used up, although you don't even have any use for it yet. (Sid! will you fix this, please!)

There's a neat rules editor for those who want to alter things a little (want the Great Library to expire at the invention of the "printing press," which is really more logical than the default "education," be Sid's guest!). Of course, if you alter them too much the game will either crash or it will be so easy it won't be fun any more. Your choice. One thing you may well want to do is to alter the colors sported by the valiant French citizens and units. They look like an explosion in a raspberry sherbet factory. (Be careful not to accidentally select a color used by another civilization though.)

The rules editor, of course, can't deal with the annoyances from before: unit movement is still majorly clunky (why you can't just move a stack of like units simultaneously I will never understand) and the AI doesn't prioritize when your turn comes round again. Say you're waiting anxiously for it to be your turn again so your brave Americans can wreak havoc upon the treacherous Babylonians, who've declared war on you--again. And you're all set to unleash your brave cavalry, but the AI, of course, starts your turn off in a far corner, removed from the action. And when you find your cavalry ready to roll out (one of six), as soon as you move the first you find you are, bewilderingly, back in the far corner again.

Some quibbles: the scoring of the game is unbalanced in favor of territory. It doesn't matter if you have seven happy cities on a small continent. If the AI (suspiciously rapidly) plonks down 15 crummy ones on a large continent, his score is better. There's too much pollution, too soon. It appears during the industrial age (roughly around 1800, 1750 if you're clever), and you are expected to set your workers to clear it, when in point of fact _no_ civilization did _anything_ about pollution until after World War II. There is far too much corruption, especially considering that the game now is more integrated, in the sense that the cities make up a nation-state rather than a series of loosely connected city states.

The game seems remarkably stable; the version I installed did not crash, but there is already a bug fix posted on the Civ3.com website. You'll probably want to download it.

All in all, it's probably what civ-ers have been waiting for. And now, I suppose, we shall all be waiting for Alpha Centauri 2. So it goes.

BE cautious

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Look, all these reviews were written BEFORE the game came out. Do not make the same mistake I did. I bought the game (I am a devout CIV I, CIV II, Colonization etc... fan). The game is actually WORSE than CIV II. The interface is clunky and the development is almost nil. Strategic materials was a good idea, but they are not placed on the map in may cases (even after you discover technologies) thereby making advancements worthless. I played the game six times and could not get to republic any earlier than 300 AD. By the time I started getting into technological age, the game ended.
Diplomacy is bull again, because the computer up and attacks you for no reason as it always has.
There was NO new development in this. They are ripping you off. Play CIV II, have fun, enjoy yourself. This game truly (aweful). If they had a negative rating system I would give it. I just hope I can return the darn thing.

Don't Buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was rushed to the public and needed about 3 more months of testing to work out all the bugs. You think if it is the third in the series it would have all the features of 1 and 2 but it doesn't. This game had so much potential to be the best ever but Fraxis ruined it. Just buy a copy of Civ 2 and wait for Civ 4.

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