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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.

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

Really Awesome Turn Based Strategy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 22 / 34
Date: April 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a really fun game. You get to control an empire, and try and expand your empire. You try and build cities in certain places, where you can get food, gold, etc. Then you try and wipe out other empires and take their cities. It is a really fun strategy game, with really cool people. First you build Settlers, Archers, Spearmen, Workers, then move on to Legionary and Horseman. After that, you start building gunman, then all the way to tanks, and finally stuff like missiles.

One of the really fun things is trading. You get lots of technologs that way, and its really fun ripping people off. For example if someone wants a peace treaty, you can just give them a peace treaty, and make them give you cities, gold, technology, things that make your civillions happy like fur and dye, and other really good stuff.

I highly reccomend playing as Caesar of the Romans, playing on the easiest level (which is still pretty hard) Chieftain, playing on the area with the most land not water, and having your enemys be really bad like the Aztecs and Iraquois, and not the Greeks, Germans, and Russians. This is the best because its the easiest, and when its harder, its less fun, because you get really annoyed because you can't rip people off when you trade, and the other empires will always be taking over your towns a lot more.

To have a good game, you need to start out extremely well. Build a city on your first turn. Then get your worker to irrigate all over the place. Then take your settler, and travel all over the place, until you find agood place with water, and food, and build a city there. Also, when you travel around the land mass, you will find things that look like pots. If you get anyone to go over to them, they will usually give you a technology, but sometimes they will give you a warrior, which suck, but you should use to gaurd a city until you get something better to gaurd it with, and sometimes they will give you gold, and sometimes, the place is desserted.

With your military guys, try and attack guys that are weaker, so your guy will become more skilled, and get more health, so that guy will be harder to beat. Also, don't attack extremely good empires, you will lose. Instead, start war with [*]people, and take over their cities, and use them for your use. Also, when other empires want a peace treaty, rip them off in trading for the peace treaty, and then wait 5 minutes before starting war with them again. Then keep on taking over their cities, until their wiped out, or you keep on ripping them off trading for peace treatys. Let the better empires be until you are really strong. In the mean time, keep on giving them gifts of 10 or 20 gold, if you can.

If your a fan of turn based strategy, get this game. The only annoying things are that

1. Your people can only move once per turn

2. It really pisses you off when your doing really good, and then somes crazy attacks your city and gets it , so you should really start over.

3. It really sucks how if you attack a guy with a spear, and you have a tank, you might even lose!

Overall, its a pretty good game. I would definitely get it.

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.

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.

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!

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??

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.

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

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.

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