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Buggy like you wouldn't believe

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: July 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was released way to soon. It is buggy and missing many graphics files. Even the very large patch cannot fix it. I wouldn't recommend this. It was a lot of fun but invariably something would go wrong. For example in one game It would add 500 gold per turn to my tally regardless of howmuch my civ was actually spending. Sounds good, well in another game, I was in the negative no matter how much I stripped down the expenses. This appeared to be related to the corruption calculations, but I'm not a programmer so don't take my word for it. The game is just unpredictable. In another very frustrating episode, I could not load a certain saved game, for no apparent reason.

Stay away. Save your money. Civ 4 is coming and this is not worth the waste of time.

Don't get this expansion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: May 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played the game Civ 3 and the game works very well. I have not had any problems with the program crashing at all. I then buy this expansion pack and the first time I play the game with the expansion pack, the game crashes on me! I have tried loading the auto saved games at different save points but it does nothing for me, it still crashes. I then downloaded the April, 2004 patch for this expansion pack and the game still crashes! I wish I could return the expansion pack to the store and get my money back and just play the Civ3 game without any expansions. Hopefully they will iron out more of the bugs in the future, until then, I won't play this anymore. There is no point to playing a game that I can't finish.

Wow!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 48
Date: February 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Who thought that Civilization 3 could get any better after Play The World? With the conquests expansin, computer games are taken to a whole new level. Its almost too realistic. Its imposible to imagine how so much alterenatives of how to play a game you have in only one.

HUMAN SACRIFICE is NOT ok for 6 year olds

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 106
Date: January 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A great, classic game series has joined GTA in the moral sewer.
I hope everyone will demand a replacement without this.
If murder - even fantasy murder - can win a game, that game is not fit to sell.
In contrast, Civ III had reached new moral heights for the series by capturing workers rather than executing them like many other games.
I was a real fan since the original CIV.
I never admired any nation that practised mass murder; why do they think any civilization would? Please keep this out of the reach of children.

Amazon needs to decide to support the Military or not

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 34
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My husband and I are stationed overseas and he was interested in purchasing Civ3 expansion. Of course our lovely BX does not carry it and doesn't know when or if it will have more later. I decided to purchase it from Amazon and was told it is only available in the US. I asked customer service and they told me over half of their products that they sell are unable to be shipped overseas. Military addresses have certain rules about some items but this item is not one of them. They told me that they do have other software that is available to ship. How dumb is that?!

wrong changes

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 25 / 66
Date: August 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All additions and changes to CivIII are useless until they do something about the 2 major shortcomings of the entire Civ series: the stupid movement system (moving each unit individually even when a whole stack wants to go to the same place); and the stupid combat system (where each unit attacks and defends seperately no matter how many are involved in the same battle). Leaders, as defined so far, dont really help much. As it is, I almost never finish a game because it bogs down into endless turns of moving and attacking one unit at a time. Boring!

Another major problem is that there are never enough resources, even at the easiest level of play; forcing you into wars, even if you would like to be peaceful. Their availability should be adjustable, the same way the size of continents and other items are.

A minor irritation is that I can't choose the color of my units.

Don't buy Play the World!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: January 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This expansion to the CIV3 world is 'okay'. I say 'okay' because in essence it is the Play the World add-on with a few extras and scenarios. I don't like paying for scenarios. There are entirely too many available online for free, some even better than those being sold in this package to justify the 30 dollar price tag. (I am incredibly grateful to Amazon for selling this mess to me on sale for $9.99) I've been duped by firaxis 3 times now. First I got the collector's edition tin, which was supposed to have all these great goodies, and in essence had a cd of sid meier saying how great he is. I then bought Play-the-World and for the price, was REALLY disappointed with the product. I had to download 3 patches for it. Finally I get this, and even though I got it cheap, I STILL feel ripped off. Firaxis knows that civ fans are devoted, but they don't even justify multiplayer experiences like Blizzard does with Battle.Net. ::sigh:: Its a shame this product has been marketed this way. Had this been offered instead of Play-the-World, adding both multiplayer and the combined civs/units/wonders, I would have bumped this rating to 4 stars. Shame on Sid M. for letting Firaxis run amok with the franchise. I miss Microprose.

***Set Your Expectations***

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 351 / 376
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've only been playing this expansion for a few days, but I'm disappointed. Mostly by one thing: there's some misleadin' goin' on. For one thing, this expansion includes both the features from Play the World and the new items. This is OK; this was explicit in the product description. Unfortunately, it didn't differentiate between what is from PtW and what is in Conquests, so "five new Wonders" means "four new wonders--oh, and the one from PtW."

Fair enough. It isn't that big of a deal. But it also lists all kinds of things: you can trade salt! And exotic birds! And you can switch to the Tribal Council government! Except for one thing--whoops!--these are only available in the specific campaigns in the game. They do not show up on the normal game. This infuriates me, because quite frankly what's left ain't worth the thirty bucks I knew I'd regret putting down for this. The non-campaign specific features that are added aren't even close to being anything more than what should show up on a patch.

Firaxis has done this to me before, and I'm starting to feel like a punching bag. They do put out an excellent product, but they rake you over the coals with crap like this. (The Civilization III Gold pack--which had Civ III + PtW, but not this product--conveniently came out about a week before Conquests was announced. Thanks, guys!)

I'll be the first to admit that there's a handful of good things to come out of this. Two new government types (Feudalism and Fascism) are nice, though they don't seem to be much of an alteration of existing governments. New civilizations keep things interesting but are by no means all that impressive. The new civilization attributes (Agricultural and Seafaring) are kind of cool. I think the new specialists (Policeman and Civil Engineer) will be helpful, but I haven't been able to use them to their full potential yet. But that's it. Everything else that's new are just refinements and settings. The few things that are wrong with Civilization III are still wrong (lousy alliance AI, dragging end game, impossible-to-please diplomacy, inherent bias against any type of victory except bloodlust). I like the new additions. I don't like being fooled.

wait 2 years for future titles to be sure of quality...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 18 / 23
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not to sound like a tight-wad, but I'm seriously disappointed in this franchise since CIV 3 came out. I have been an avid player of the CIV franchise since the first game, and bought the 3rd installment the day it shipped to stores for $60 in the overrated LIMITED EDITION tin. (it was all they had) I was throughly disappointed in the product. It was shipped incomplete, with numerous bugs that required several patches, no multiplayer as was originally promised, and a SORRY modding kit. Then came Play the World. Finally, multiplayer as promised... which required another $30 to have. So the game was up to $90. Bugs, problems, more patches. Then they released the GOLD Edition with CIV3 and PtW. $40. Then comes Conquests a few months later. Great, more stuff! With ANOTHER $30 price tag. I feel sorry for those who shelled out the $40 for Gold Edition, only to have Conquests arrive with PtW included. That brings the total to $120. Thanks Firaxis. I'll remember to buy your games a few years after they come out from now on. That way I get the quality promised when all the bugs are ironed out. Everything included in PtW could have been in a patch, INCLUDING multiplayer, and Conquests should NEVER have had a $30 price tag. Ridiculous.

Dissapointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pros: self explanatory(see description). The conquests are very interesting, especially WW II in the pacific.

Cons: Not enough conquest scenarios. *World War II scenario in Europe is NOT included in this expansion.* This is unfortunate since it was included as a free conquest option in Civ 2.

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