Posted on: September 9, 2025
Jaws666
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The Best Civ in the series
In my opinion this is the best one!
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Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
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Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete provides strategy fans with the classic Civilization III plus both expansions: Play the World and Conquests! for one great price.
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22.5 hMain
42.5 h Main + Sides
123 h Completionist
37 h All Styles
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Posted on: September 30, 2025
kaposzta
Verified ownerGames: 193 Reviews: 2
Best Civ!
Civ 1 was love at first sight. Civ 2 was Civ 1 on steroids. But Civ 3 is something else - you just cannot stop playing it.
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Posted on: October 20, 2025
NesLightGunGun
Verified ownerGames: 38 Reviews: 1
Awesome, even with no nostalgic value
Just started playing and man is this really fun. Honestly-and this is with no nostalgia talking-one of the best 4X games ever
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Posted on: June 18, 2020
dnovraD
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 77
Strategic Bottlenecks
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.
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Posted on: May 8, 2024
EwigWandernd
Verified ownerGames: 738 Reviews: 263
Interesting part of gaming history
I played the shit out of this game as a child, and went back to it 1 year ago; and I ahve to say, it's an interesting inbetween Civ 2 and Civ 4 with the better and the worse sides of both games. Ultimately, I prefer the approach of 4, which goes towards a simulation, more than the boardgame feeling of Civ 2. It's a cool part of gaming history, but yeah, for me, Civ 4 is better.
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