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can be addicting

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

but it sure is hard. on the easiest setting, you'll more then likely spend the majority of the time at war with 7+ other societies who have an alliance against you. and if you want to keep up scientifically, you won't have any gold until you run out of achievements to learn.

Civilation III

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Absolutely addictive, better than Sim City, rather than building a city, you get to build an empire with CivIII. Tried Civ Complete but found it more difficult to play though the added features were great. In Civilization III, you start with a dark world you have to send explorers out to discover. Build as many cities as you can, trying to add as many luxury items (wine, spice, silk, etc) and strategic items (iron, horses, coal) into your empire while building common items (libraries, banks, etc) and wonders (pyramid, colossus, pentagon). The game starts in the BC era and continues through the 21st century as your technology advances, you win or lose wars, establish diplomatic ties with neighboring countries and continue to build. A first class game of strategy.

Civilization III

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Its hard to walk away. Its like playing chess and using the world as your board.

A friend got me hooked on this.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had to give up my PS2 as it caused arthritsis in both shoulders. So a friend let me play this on his PC. WOW!! a lot of fun. Took me awhile to get the hang of the game like how to EXPLORE; use the Automation feature and how to put ppl on a ship etc. So I have purchased the game for myself. Game has several levels from beginner on up to difficult. You get to pick what civilaztion you want to build and which one you wish to challange.

If you have just started to play a PC games, get this one as the price has dropped since first introduced.

good education game for teens

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is a nice educational game for teens and adults that stimulated interest to the world history and helps to understand past societies.

One of the best Strategy Games to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Civilization III is perhaps the greatest strategy game to date. Although this version of Civilization III doesn't include the multiplayer additions or expansion maps that Civilization III Complete has, it still is a masterpiece. This version was the first one made in late 2001; it contains the exact same gameplay and features as the newer additions, just excluding the bonus units created in the newer ones. The game is only priced at $0.01 because of the more recent 2004 edition (Civilization III Complete) which includes this exact same game, plus the two expansion disks. Although it's only $0.01, shipping is about $5. The game includes hours of fun and real time strategy that the first 2D Civilization in the early 1990s had, without the complexity that Call to Power had. For anyone who enjoys simulation games such as Sim City with the strategy of Age of Empires and games such as Command and Conquer, this game is a definite must have.

Don't waste your time or your money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's hard to believe what a piece of crap this game really is. Recently got a used version to try out before I spent a small fortune on Civ 4. I was a huge Civ 2 fan, great game, just blessed enough to have never bought this game before now. TONS of bugs. This game should never even have been released. One of the patches is 29 MB, that should have told me something, and is based on "tester feedback". How about testing the game BEFORE you release it!?!? HUGE movement lag times, 2 minutes rounds can easily take 5 or 10. TOTALLY unrealistic battles. Lowly enemy archers defeating your veteran tanks behind your city walls is just one of hundreds. Constant MAJOR corruptuion, no matter what you do, and under any form of government. Researching advances that lead to resources that don't even exist for many, MANY turns. At best about a 60% bombardment failure rate for land, water and air units, and they don't get better with experience. They'll suck at the end of the game just like they sucked when you first built them. The huge thrill of discovering deserted villages. And on and on and on. This was obviouls nothing but a MONEY thang. Again, Civ 2 was great. This was just an extremely poor imitation quickly released to profit on it's coattails. I paid $5 for my used one, but in excellent condition, with manual, box, etc. That was waaaaaaaaaay too much. I wouldn't play Civ 3 if you paid me $5 per round. I quickly gave it to Goodwill, but now feel guilty that someone else will have to play this piece of junk for themselves before they find out how horrible it is. I should have just thrown it in the trash where it belongs. $40 or $50 for Civ 4? Yeah, right. I think not.

Evil

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've come to a conclusion. All the civilization games are evil. Seriously. If you have hours and hours of your life to waste and don't mind being glued to your keyboard, then by all means purchase civ3. Otherwise, stay away. Perhaps not quite as addictive as civ2, the third version of the civ games is still a worthy successor.

One of the best games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Works great with Windows ME and is both fun and challenging. There are also some great cheats to download if you like that.

This is a Problem.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, and even though it's not expensive, I'm still really ticked because I popped it into my cd/dvd drive and nothing ever happened. I tried everything, tried forcing it to autorun, tons of stuff. I looked on the internet at other people's reviews and it seems that a lot of people have the same problem. This game will not install!! Some cd's work, some don't, you're basically playing roulette with which one you get in the pack. It's not worth the hassle.

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