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Addictive game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have payed the Civiliztion series ever since the first installment came out ten or so years ago, as well as a lot of other Sid Meier Games, such as Colonization or Railroad Tycoon. Civilization is a great addition to Sid Meier's Resume and I have spent many hours playing the game and lost quite a fe hours of sleep because of it too.

The game adds quite a few new features that I like. These are the addtion of culture and the fact that some AI cities may want to switch sides (or vice versa) if adjoining cities have a strong cultural influence over them. Also, I like the fact that you can now win the game in more ways than before (diplomacy victory and cultural victory have been added). Also, I like the fact that you now have natrual an luxury resources on your map. The natural resources are necessary to build certain improvements or units. There are always one or two essential resources that do not seem available in your territory. Then you will have to trade them with the AI, find them on the map in open land and build a city or colony there, or wage WAR with an opponent.

The gamne has a few drawbacks as well. If you are playing with 8 or more computer opponents the game gets rather slow as you are waiting for the computer to complete its turn (especially towards the end of the game). Also, signing mutual protection pacts has usually backfired for me. Either the AI declares war immediately afterwards and then I am sucked into a sometimes futile campaign that costs me quite a few resources or, when I declare war on an AI player with a certain objective in mind (usually a natural resource or a wonder) it seems my AI ally usually captures the objective. Another big drawback is corruption. In CIV III it is such a problem in cities that are far away from your capital, that they are totally unproductive. There are some tips on the Civfanatics Website that allow you to circumvent this to an extent.

All in all, Civ III is a good game and certainly worth the purchase. Buy a book along with it as well so you have something to do while the AI makes his move.

good, but age of empires 2 is better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Civ. 2 is a [great] game, it provides real leaders, resources, and cool army units. The biggest let down is the system of "turns" that it uses. The "turns" slow gameplay and it's frustrating to have something being attacked and not being able to move a unit fast enough because it has to wait a turn. Despite of the aggravating turn system it's a good game and I recomend it.

A must buy for any strategy fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesom in both gameplay and graphics. I have Civilation: Call To Power and it can't compete with this game. There are infinite amount of ways to win and moving up the tech tree. There are a lot of cool units to build over more than 8000 year period.

The game is a little hard to learn but just give it a constant effort and build a couple of experimental civilations first until you get a strategy that suites you.

This one is definitly worth the money; great graphics, a lot of attention to detail, historical background on all real world buildings and units, and a very long replay value.

More like a the creation of a genius!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a quite amazing game! It takes a Real Time Strategy game and puts it in turn-based form. The graphics are quite an improvement over Civ2. It is very complicated and hard to learn, but if you filp through the manual, you'll understand everything anfter your 1st game. The object of the game is to win by one of the mulitple ways. That is what makes this game truly great: something besides war. You don't have to win by killing everyone. You can also win by researching everything and building a space suttle. Or by getting the other players to like you. Don't get me wrong, you can win by conquering. The warfare is a little bit skewed (ex: Armored knight being killed by a basic warrior with a stone axe) But once you're past the begining, it's not much of a problem. This game is totally addictive. It took me four hours to get through one time period. Don't think that this is going to be a quick game. You can save, of couse, though. I would recomened this game to any strategy game fan. Sid Meier has created yet another great game.

Sid Meier's new version of PC Compatible crack has arrived

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Alot of the logistical headaches are gone from this newest offering of the Civilization series. CCTP has had a definite impact on the thinking of some aspects of the game (particularly trade and settling) but basically this is a Sid M. game through and through. I found that the fundamentals were quite good and the AI seems excellent. As there are many plusses there are some minuses - The CD detection is unreliable about 30% of the time and the resource distribution algorithm is haphazard at best. But otherwise I've found it to be an enjoable game and while I don't plan many sleepless nights..they just occur around this game.
Face it folks,the latest version of PC Compatible crack has arrived.

Creating a civ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is interesting for a while let's say 3 month. But I have to say after a while once you have create a big civ., you get a bit bored cause need load of time to reach new discovers and new stuff...
It is a nice game but get it second hand... same kind like sim city... would need more flexibility to be more atractive...

bye for now...
steve

THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION !!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Much improvement over civ II. Excelent graphics, excelent animation. Civilization is on whole differnet level of computer game. The people who gave this game less than 5 stars dont have a clue. This is the best simulation of real world country/culture interactions ever. You would have to be an actual world leader to have it more real. Oh and this game is highly addictive. So dont play if if you care about your GPA

More work than fun to get it running

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought it, spent two days trying to get it to work and almost gave up.

First it wouldn't even launch: the little splash screen would flicker and that was it. We decided that it didn't like a utility that was installed so we ended up uninstalling that and finally Civ 3 looked like it might work. But no, it just drove the CPU up to 100% and hung with the screen flickering between resolution settings before it went black. Changing the colors settings, resolution and acceleration got us no where. Maybe my 1 yr old video card is unacceptable? So we tried it on another, newer/better machine only to have the monitor shut off on that one.

I resent having to push buttons on automated 'help' lines searching for something useful, I'm not going to run up a long distance bill trying to reach a live tech, and their website was useless. Despite what they say, it doesn't work well on XP.

We've gotten it to run, but after playing the game I have to reboot the machine because it resets the resolution and it won't change back, and it turns the sound off on my machine afterward too.

When it takes this much effort to get a game to run, it isn't fun, it's work.

A treasure for strategy fans; Nothing new for the rest.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Civilization 3 is the best turn based strategy game out there. It has everything you want, all very refined and polished. The nationalities, now with bonuses and unique units, are very well balanced. You can automate your settlers. The economic system feels fairly real (except during anarachy, in which case your taxmen and stock market make you very very rich.) The additions of culture and natural resources add that extra bit of realism and frustration when oil or coal doesn't land in your territory.

Having said all that, the game is only 4 stars because:
1. It bring nothing revolutionary to the genre
2. It isn't as strategically deep as Alpha Centauri
3. A few minor design issues such as huge corruption and AI moves taking up to 5 minutes. A patch is forthcoming to fix these issues.

All in all, if you've ever enjoyed a turn based strategy game before, buy this game. Otherwise get a faster strategy game like Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge or a shooter like Ghost Recon or Max Payne

An old friend returns, with subtle improvements

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a long time computer gamer, I had been mesmerized by Civ I, and still had CivII on my hard drive, so I was glad to see the arrival of CivIII. Those who have played the earlier incarnations will appreciate the improved graphics, but the improvements in game play are subtle--multiple items have been changed to provide better balance and gameplay but you can still jump in and play like you remembered. Then go back to the manual and learn the new subleties to play better.
For new Civ students, be prepared for long hours of obsessive "gamelock" as you nurture your infant society thru growth and development until you dominate the world, militarily or culturally. Many of the concepts of research and unit building will be familiar from other games, but this was the one that started it all, and back in a new improved version

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