Posted on: February 17, 2019

Gazebo88

Gry: 581 Opinie: 10

Good But Least Likely

I bought the original game off the shelf at our PX on Camp Casey in 1991 and played it through over and over and over again. I did the same with Civilization II which remains tied with Master of Orion 2 as my favorite follow-up sequel ever. Civilization III was certainly an enjoyable game. The mechanics aren't much more complex than its predecessor and the graphical and audio bells and whistles are good and stand up well even to this day. Then Civilization IV came out and once the Beyond the Sword add-on completed that game, I was done with Civ III and never returned. Games 5 and 6 have been enjoyable though the series is beginning to groan under the weight of chrome replacing elegance. As a stand-alone title, Civilization III is a very good game. So while for me its the least likely title in the series that I would go back to play again, if you've never played any of the series titles it's an excellent place to start especially given its low price on GOG.

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Posted on: November 22, 2023

Severian_96

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Gry: 12 Opinie: 4

The best Sid Meier's game after SMAC

If you are on Linux (+lutris), just make sure to add the KeepRes=1 line in the conquest.ini file otherwise the game might not start for you. The problem i had in particular was whenever i would try to start the game, the initialisation wouldn't finish (selecting team colour) so this was bypassed by the already mentioned trick. Yes, there are some minor glitches like the cheering sound being on repeat after the people grant you the palace upgrade, but these are all artificial at best. Works like the charm on Windows 10, but dont forget to add the same line here as well. Alas, always have guards posted around your colonies...

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Posted on: December 16, 2016

jimplunder

Gry: 344 Opinie: 12

Not my favorite

Civ III has a few things that I loved and many things that I hated. For starters, the game always had resource balance issues and map seeding issues. If I played on a Pangea map, I would always get stuck on a small island by myself. If I played continents, I got stuck in a place that had no resources. I had no iron, no saltpeter, and no rubber, so I was always attacking with spearmen when they had swordsmen and musketmen, and had to wait to get riflemen before I could become competitive militarily, if only for a short while when the AI could build infantry. This just created an ultimate sense of frustration that any game I played was unbalanced in the AI's favor. The things I absolutely loved (that I wish they still did in modern Civ games) were palace building and leader portraits. Building your palace was amazing. Creating a single style or mix-and-matching was awesome. It was an improvement over the Throne Room of Civ II. I also loved that the leader portraits during diplomacy evolved with the tech age they were in. For example, if you were in the ancient era, all the leaders were wearing animal skins. In the classical age, they wore togas. In medieval era, they wore armor, and so on and so forth. It created a unique and immersive experience that Firaxis has not matched since, even with the "realistic" avatars in Civ V and the cartoony realism in Civ VI. I wish that Firaxis would take the time to put in little improvements like these into their newer Civ games. All in all, I don't give Civ III a high score, although I can see why many people liked it. On that very rare occasion when I did get a good starting spot with balanced resources, the game was a lot of fun, almost as much fun as my penultimate Civ game, Civ II.

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Posted on: September 26, 2022

ryansdad1031

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Gry: 32 Opinie: 15

The best Civ game, period.

Civ 3 is the best in the series, period. Civ 2 was great as well, but it didn't age well, and honestly Civ 3 made a lot of improvements over Civ 2 when it comes to some gameplay mechanics. All the Civ games that came after #3, however, got waaaaay too cartoony looking for my tastes. I think Civ 3 has the best "style" of graphics in the series. I've put thousands of hours into Civ 3, and it never gets old. The reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because there are a few annoying things about the AI. The trading system is unbalanced (as in, other countries will want you to give them like 5 things in exchange for one thing). Also, countries get mad at you for no reason, and the game doesn't tell you why. One other annoyance is the randomness to combat. I don't think a spearman or an archer should ever be able to defeat a tank... but it happens sometimes thanks to a random number generator. Besides those few complaints, it's still a very fun and addicting game, and I highly recommend it to anyone that likes 4X strategy games.

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Posted on: December 9, 2023

Fergei

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Gry: 106 Opinie: 3

Fully customisable - timeless

I never played this at the time of release despite loving the first two Civs. Coming to it almost 20 years following release I found an excellent base game, but with some balance issues. The default settings mean the first half of the game is far harder than the second half. All the AI's advantages are frontloaded to the start of the game. It is still entertaining, however.... The editor that comes with the game is simple to use and incredibly versitile. You can tweak settings to effectively make the strategy game that you want to play in terms of difficulty, game balance, game speed. Pretty much everything is customisable. That is without going into the full blown mod options with customised units, graphics, settings etc. Multiplayer is superb, but with a couple of minor bugs. GoG version with the basic download (not using Galaxy) works perfectly on XP despite being listed as needing Windows 7. Civ2 is possibly the best game I played growing up, but I will never play it again because Civ3 is that good.

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