What is your view of Civ3?

[Aegis]

Actually they've said specifically that they it won't be possible. They want to encourage a strategy that involves long front lines at your borders, in stead of fortifying loads of units in your cities.

It opens the door to using tactics like lining melee up front & ranged support in the rear, which should make for some very fun battles. My only concern is if we'll have to micromanage the units, or if we can tell them to move in a formation.

I am very much looking forward to Civ V, and if they do it right it will probably supplant III as my favorite.

 

[Zelig]

I would like to point out in regards to eliminating unit stacks: clever use of of unit health (by the programmer) can have almost the exact same effect.

 

[BCLG100]

Siege units can fire over other units is another option i heard about.

 

[Takhisis]

Considering I'm playing 9 years later, one of the best games I've ever owned.

To me Civilization III: Conquests is the best game I've ever played. Nothing spells addiction and one more turn syndrome better. I've recently gotten back into it and love it like yesterday. Just a shame that the legends of the game have departed from Civfanatics.

I've tried cIV and I have a few personal gripes with it. Least of which the graphics are too blocky, cartoonish and sometimes unnecessary, and this basically makes it extremely difficult to extract information at a glance. Obviously it fixes the bugs and deficiencies which were in C3C but to be honest if they weren't there then C3C would be almost impossible to win at the highest levels?

I sincerely hope ciV will be more appealing.

You two, join the Brotherhood and Renaissance groups.

 

[bigdog5994]

Considering I'm playing 9 years later, one of the best games I've ever owned.

this.

there really hasn't been any other games that ive played so consistently as C3C

 

[GoodGame]

I enjoyed it in its day, especially Conquests.
However, the graphics engine really makes my eyes bleed today, compared to Civ4, and I really don't care for the corruption and cops and robbers aspect.

 

[Newbunkle]

I like civ 3 and 4 about the same.

I still miss civ 3's combat system. The system in civ 4 is bloated and weird - too much rock/paper/scissors shenanigans, which makes a non-warmonger like me cry due to the extra micromanagement. I dislike the bombardment stuff from both games though, and I really miss being able to manually control my air units.

I hated corruption and ICS in civ 3. I'm glad civ 4 took steps to reduce that, but it didn't do enough in my opinion. I still hate having to manage lots of cities (zzz).

 

[bigdog5994]

for all you guys complaining about micro managing all you have to do is contact the governor

 

[BCLG100]

Not if you want to win on any of the higher levels.

 

[Takhisis]

Who says that games should be easy at all levels of difficulty?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

The biggest flaw however was Catherine the Great. Here we have a leader who has been portrayed by Catherine Zeta Jones. But what do we get in Civ3? They show her as 70 year old fat woman. Unforgivable.

The best review remark I have ever read so far.

What I loved about CivIII was the action. The rapid city spreading lead to a lots of fighting right from the start. I also liked the clearer game design in comparison to Civ IV. For a time I even considered it the better game.
Yet finally Civ IV got the hold of me, though I will not play it much in the future either. I only want to finish my huge-earth-map-RoM-snail-speed-emperor-difficulty-game for the sake of finishing it. (already exceeds 100 hours play time ). If I am done with that, I probably won't be able to touch Civ again until 5 is out.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Civ 3 is the worst in the series IMHO, lacked the charm of Civ 2 and just not as well designed as Civ 4.

 

[Narz]

Tried it once & thought it sucked compared to Civ II so I didn't play anymore. Never tried Civ IV, would like to try Civ V.

 

[NBAfan]

Civ3 was great and I still play it once in a while. Civ 4 is much better though. RoM makes it even more fun.

 

[BCLG100]

"much much"?

 

[Yui108]

I agree Civ iii is one of the greatest games ever made. Better AI than 2, and much better gameplay than IV.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Considering I'm playing 9 years later, one of the best games I've ever owned.

I agree. I'm still playing and modding.

 

[Earthling]

This is so ironic in such a major way...I fear I'll never be able to share though. I haven't played civ III in ages (I never had all of the expansions either) since I moved on to civ IV.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

C3C was absolutely outstanding. One of my favourite games of all time. Especially considering the trainwreck that was Civ4.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I will prolly like civ5 - prolly because i liked Fantasy Wars: http://images.google.ro/images?hl=ro&source=hp&q=Fantasy+Wars&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

Anyway to be on topic - from what i've seen civ3 is fun if you are not very good at it. (like me!)

Also, i dont play it anymore.