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Civ 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game for my college age son. He really enjoys playing.
The game came on time, and the Price was GREAT. I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys history and realiy based games.

one problum

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

the only thing i hate is that spearmen can kill tanks...granted it is possable in real life the odds are not good, they need to fix the combat stats for fighters so modern warriors do not get kill by a spearman and such. other than that great game.

Spainfinatic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have used Civilization 3 for years, and also Civilization 3 Conquests Expansion pack, for years. The infinite possibilites every time you do the game is amazing! Also, in Civilization, you don't just...BEAT the game. Rather, you beat a type of scenario. For example. One time i was Isabella of the Spaniards(!THE BEST!) and i became really, really powerful. I had nuclear weapons, and no one else did. I drove out everyone else to South America and Africa (haha!) and took Asia, Europe, and North America all to myself. Still, though, that was only one scenario, and i didn't do the space race. Actually, i've never finished the space race, come to think of it. BUT THIS GAME IS GREEEAAAAAAAT!

Fun and Addicting...sound familar??

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you liked civ 2, then civ 3 is right up your alley. All the little things that civ 2 lacked, civ 3 makes up for. The first day I bought this game I must have played for 14 hours straight its that addicting, the game actually keeps you from doing or thinking about anything else except the game... The game does not run slow at all, it runs at a speed comparable to civ2 if not a little bit faster, and the A.I. is much smarter and more challenging to contend with. If you remember Colonization and the original civilization this game has all the features you were wishing for years ago. More animation within the gameplay, not too much because that would take away from this classic strategy game, higher level of intricacy within the game engine, the game has become fully mind absorbing, you are constantly desring to improve your nation and the city improvements actually morph throughout different time periods, arial views of cities are much more appealing than we've seen before. But be warned its hard to stop playing once you start. I can't explain it, find out for yourself.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: April 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was really good and that everyone who likes building armies should try it. It's only a little slow so don't let that stop you. I think that anyone who is really frustrated by the speed, probably has a problem with their computer.

Not impressed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 26
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Game of the year?? This game has lots of bells and whistles (perhaps too many), but it lacks an important ingredient...fun. In many ways this game is a step backwards from Imperilism II. It follows many of the same ideas, but when it comes to battles this game is sorely lacking. One of the most interesting aspects of Imperialism was the ability to control multiple units in one battle. Here each unit simply goes one on one with another and the computer decides who wins. Additionally, the game is just too PC for its good. If you get attacked by someone else suddenly half of your cities erupt in civil unrest, making it very difficult to fight. The message seems to be that you should conquer the world by investing in the arts??

Excellent, highly addictive game with few reservations.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 36 / 38
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an incredibly absorbing and eerily lifelike game. When I made a deal with England knowing it was only to buy time so that I would attack them I actually felt guilty.

Some answers to the critics here... Boooring obviously never learned how to play. He should try researching and changing to a more productive form of government. Tank loses to spearmen. Actually that's rare but not unheard of in real life, too and he needs to remember that, although it's represented as a single figure each unit represents a squadron and a badly damaged squadron of tanks might well fall to a health squad of spearmen if they're smart enough to get inside their range and swarm them.

There are a lot of improvements over previous Civ's making the game worth buying. Particularly better trade, better graphics, many more diplomacy options, significant civilization style, attribute and strength differences.

Brickbats.
In many ways the port to Mac is REALLY bad carrying over all the Windows quirks and inconsistencies instead of porting it to a true Mac application e.g. writing their own dropdowns, eliminating the Mac menu and creating their own (with options missing) not using real windows, taking over the whole screen etc...

This game is so good that sooner or later you're going to want the upgrades, Conquests and Play the World and the likelyhood is that you won't be able to get them on the Mac.

Pretty Good---sort of.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: December 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well the game is pretty cool, but there are a couple of problems i have faced:
1. the game speed is pretty slow, and i have a new computer, powerbook g4, and something like 500 MB(?) of space.

2. You cannot move your guy without holding down the 'fn' key in the lower left hand corner of the keyboard, because the game interprets the left arrow on a G4 powerbook as being a 'page up' key. What i have had to do is just use the mouse keypad for everything involving movement.

other than that, if you got a normal keyboard, the game should be cool. So definetly get this game if you have a desktop, and if you don't mind pointing and clicking, try your luck with a laptop.

System requirements

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't want to write a review; I just want you to read this and there's no place else to write it. When a game is listed for a Mac, the system requirements should be Mac requirements, not PC

Boooooooring!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 118
Date: April 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The idea of this game is cool, build an empire, make the best army, and conquer the world. Well the game is just BAD. It is really, really slow and you always have to press the space button to end a turn. Another problem is this, you almost always go bankrupt. You end up having to not buy anything and building a ton of mines (and you still dont get much!) There must be a million ways to beat the game, but I've had it for a year and still havn't beaten it yet! I personally don't see how this game won a medal, besides maybe "Most Boring Game On Earth Award". If you like to make armies buy Command and Conquer.

-Matt

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