Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete

Classic game that brings back lots of memories

Still a great game to play, I personally prefer it to Civ 6 which I find cartoony and irritating for a number of reasons. Civ 3 is a classic Civ game, what Civ used to be before Civ 5 came along and things took a rather different direction.

GOG did a good job of making this title work on new hardware!

I enjoy playing this game more than any of the later editions.

The thing I remember the most about Civ III from the time I played it when it first arrived here was having a fair time of things and then suddenly all my progress crashes hard because the iron resource had spawned off on a small island from the rest of the supercontinent. Welcome to Civ 3, where one major feature causes the score to crash down from "Great" to "Pretty Bad". Civ 3 introduces Strategic Resources; things required to make units and buildings. Not a bad idea in itself. The issue is entirely in the implementation. Rather than fair distribution per player, or just sane seeding, the game will place ONE of EACH strategic resource; and to a further point, there is a diceroll per turn that said resource will pack it's bags and move elsewhere with no explanation. Not "ran out", just mysteriously vanishes and reappears elsewhere. You can't find iron needed to build ironclads to circumnavigate the globe? Chances are the game spawned it on one of the islands you can't reach in a reasonable pace. This really is such a gamebreaking feature and I'm not sure how Civ fared during the time from III to IV, given what a massive upward improvement in everything Civ IV was.