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highest quality derivative of the best gaming series.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

maybe i'm biased (i've been playing the civ series sence it was on the super nintendo) but i love this game. it was a quality about it that is just hard to duplicate. it's easy to learn (i've just addicted two of my friends to it who've never played a game like it b4), yet it is hard to master. and talk about repeatablity, the game is different everytime (while still managing to be fun)! to sum up: great game, buy it now. -- also, i just ordered the expansion, play the world, and wil report on that after i try it out.

A MUST BUY for any stretegy gamer.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sid Meier has always made great games and his latest, Civ 3, is quite possibly his greatest. It is a dramatic improvement over the first two (that were great to begin with). Challenging, with infinite replayablility, it may just cost you your social life if you aren't careful.

Great game Adictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have been a siv fan ever since the first one came out and I just got Civ III for Christmas and the days after that were sleepless night because of its adictiveness. It is much more fun than the other games do to the great AI, and each civilization being different. The 2050 end time is very anoying though, I agree that the units are unbalanced. I still say go out and buy it you money is well spent.

Still addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is still one of the greatest most addictive games of all time. However, it is important to note that it is not multiplayer at this time, and an expansion pack may still becoming out. Moving the troops interface is worse than Civilizations before, but the Civ 3 is still the best ever. It has new diplomacy, and includes cultural borders which really add to the game. Great game, but it is one player.

The best yet.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I dont know why everyone is having problems with lowerclass units destroying tanks and what not. I have not seen this to any great extent (this happened ocasionaly in Civ 2 as well, its know as ambush?). Any way I'll keep it short, this one is the best yet. The new cultural feature takes the game play to a compleatly nother level. The only sort of problem I found with this game is that it requiers much more effective stratagy that previosly wich can discorage the faint of heart.

Keep Your Money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I, Have to Admit, Infogrames did a great job with civilization 3. But you should keep you money, there is no multiplayer feature in this game, save your money and buy the multiplayer addition when it comes out. If you cannot wait BUY THIS GAME.
It will change your gaming experience

Good, but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a really good game, but it's cursed with a lot of bugs, that Firaxis still hasn't been able to fix with multiple patches. As of version 1.21, the game still crashes near the end, so you can't even finish most games. Otherwise, it's a fantastic game, and definatly worth buying, just beware that you're going to have problems with it.

Civilization III disappointment

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Civilization III has been getting a large number of negative reviews on amazon, which is understandable but in many ways unwarranted. I will admit that when I started playing civilization III I was disappointed. My heart sank. I had looked forward to the release of the game for months. When I heard they were developing civilization III I could not believe it. It was like my favorite band had reformed to make another album as good as their first. But after I opened the box and started my first game, as the turns progressed I was thinking, "this is not right' this is not fun' my god, they blew it on civilization III."

The reason I didn't like the game was I didn't understand it. I went in playing civilization II and it wasn't working. It seems like most of the negative reviews are in the spirit of 'this is not as good as civilization II." As I played through more and more games I began to realize the game is more complicated than it would seem to a civilization II veteran. I am sure as many of the reviewers play the game more, they will recant their initial negative reviews.

I like the culture rating. I love that our civilizations now have borders. That was terribly annoying in civ II. You would be in your city peacefully building your university and cranking up your science production as enemy forces surrounded your cities across your nation. Now they cannot sit right outside your city during peacetime and randomly declare war when they are all in position. When they enter your cultural border, you can demand that they leave or declare war, giving you some a turn or two while they march across your border and towards the city they intend to attack.

I like the resources. You don't know if you have iron in your nation until you discover iron working. You don't know if you have the rubber needed to make infantry until you discover replaceable parts. This is very cool and very realistic. My last game I had a great civilization' until I realized I had no aluminum, rubber, or coal and a few hundred years later my civilization was reduced to ash as my riflemen were rolled over by the modern armor of the once minor civilization of the Romans. Where is the oil in the real world? Much of it is in nations where if they did not have it would be the poorest on earth, instead they are the richest with modern military hardware built by the US. This is one of the finest aspects of the new game.

The computer AI is 1000% better in civilization III. I think this is a major factor in many player negative perception of the game. You cannot play on deity or king anymore. Start on the second level and work to the third level. The AI is that good. I am sure I will work my way up to the higher levels but the computer players are far smarter in this game. You cannot expect the enemy troops to attack cities with one unit at a time with no prayer of ever taking you over. They will take your workers, they will pillage your land, and then they will attack your least defended city with every unit in their military and reduce it to rubble, pyramids and all. That makes for great game play. Sure, beating civ II on deity every game was a great ego boost, but I would rather take a good beating from a well designed game any day.

The more I play civilization III the more I enjoy it. Give it a chance, you won't regret it.

Barbarians

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

So I'm sitting at dinner with a bunch of academic economists (by luck I'm one myself). The talk turns to the factors that influence the survival of civilizations and cultures. One of the consensus rules is to avoid barbarian hoards. And what gives rise to this logic, as deduced by the members of the dinner group? Experience playing Civilization. What a great game. I only hope that the next version can match up to the others.

mediocre

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I feel kinda let down by this game. Yeah, it has some ok graphics (would kinda have to, considering its the 21st century!) but its really the least fun of any of the civilizations, for me at least. I highly reccomend "alpha centauri". Its better in every way, imo.

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