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Superqualifragilidelicious !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wunderbar !
The ultimate game of stategy & tactics.
Better and more realistic than Age of Empire. The manager and the warrior will be equally satisfied playing this game ; learn how the world go round ! Become a conqueror or a diplomat.
Best investment, you will enjoy it for years to come (well, until Civ IV gets on the market!)

Beware though, the most!.. highly addictive game...

Frit

wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

addictive. will leave your eyes, fingers, and brain exhausted.

"Just Brilliant"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: August 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I got Civilization II Gold Edition, I thought civilization can't possibly get better. I was wrong, the mix of good graphics and more realistic events make this fantasic. When I played civ II, it was easy to get technology off people. Now all I know is that if you want to conqueror the world, you can't just go off bribing technologies, you have to fight with an army, not just an army but a huge one. Even cheiftain you need at least 10 armies to take over a city, and when you get to deity level- its a mission impossible. Again I think Civ's just can't get better, but with technology improving by the second- who knows what Sid meir might produce!

Terrific

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is totally addictive. It can be a little boring if you don't tweak the options to not show you every little move the game makes. Once that is done you're good to go. With three diferent map sizes and six {?) different map styles the possibilities are endless. You can even choose the type of climate you want! And you don't have to always be the Americans either. There is a whole clan of rival civilizations to choose from. Not to mention the different degrees of difficulty to choose from! There is like eight or so to choose from. I've been playing this game for 2 years now and I still haven't played all the different choices to choose from. Like I said, I've been playing this game for two years and it's still as addictive as when I first picked it up. I highly recommend it!

By Far the WORST Civ release of all time

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Mac version is crippled compared to the PC version due to the absence of an editor. There was a beta version of the editor, but it hardly worked reliably. The game is incredibly slow on the Mac, on a large map, be prepared to wait five or more minutes on a PowerMac G4 1GHZ with 1Gb of RAM between turns (and that is bottom line, turns can frequenlty take much longer). The AI is absolutely stupid, war breaks out all the time and there is little one can do about it. Alliances are silly. The diplomatic options overall are just crippled and lame (a backward step from Civ II). The ONLY thing this game has going for it is lots of good press and nice looking graphics. Don't even think about using a nuke on a city with an airport, roads connected, or a harbor... the game will freeze after the explosion for approximately three minutes before letting you continue. These issues have not been observed on the PC. Buy Civ IV as that appears to be a far more enjoyable, fast, well thought out version of this title.

This game sucks!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Even though the concept of this game is great, the fighing between units sucks. Tanks, modern armor, and most strongest infantry units will get their a**es whooped by archers and wariors with sticks. It's screwed up!! Plus, you can't kill any units with bombardments from battleships and the bombs from planes can't sink ships or kill land units. It's really cheap.

No Multiplayer Support

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: February 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The MacOS X port of this game is done pretty well. However, Civilization 3 is a lot like its predecessors in terms of gameplay. The main changes being improved user interface, graphics, and no multiplayer support. I subtracted 3 stars for going backwards.

thanks to civ iii, i no longer sleep!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Civ iii is a remarkable improvement to Civ ii. It is a smoother playing game, and the new and various ways of winning keeps it challenging and exciting. The fact that one no longer needs to be a vicious war loving maniac to win gives even a peace-nik such as myself hopes of a win. There are trade-offs, but all in all, it is a very satisfying and addictive game.

Addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...[Darn] this game is fun. Rich, thought-provoking, exciting. I knew I was a goner when it was 6 in the morning and I could barely bring myself to quit the game I was playing.

Civilization III Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Civ3 is a great strategy game that tests your skills of ruling an empire. It is really easy to use, especially if you customize the rule in the CivIII Editor. Civ3 has okay graphics, but that can be overlooked since the rest of the game is excellent.

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