Takes players on a thrilling action-packed adventure as they pursue victory in the most famous conquests in history, testing their skills in nine professionally-designed conquests. Seven new Civilizations deliver all new leaders, units, special abilities, victory conditions, wonders, terrain, resources, city improvements, and governments - offering endless variations in quests to rule the world. Also features improved multiplayer support, intense diplomatic situations, and new editor enhancements.
that was one of my favourite game, especially the hun scenario, and then the middle age ones - after some modifications to allow human play with the magyars
Looking back, this strikes me as the Spyro 2 of the Civ series: starting to contain the elements that would make the later games what they were, but still the very rough feel of the old ones. Contrary to Rockhard's review, it did have traits that helped the later two: culture, strategic resources, unit maintenance in gold rather than hammers, and the separation of workers and settlers. It also made mistakes, no doubt, such as heavy corruption [and especially waste], which they thought would fight infinite city sprawl, but instead made it the only viable strategy. However, addressing these exact problems was what made Civ IV the best of the series.
The Conquests expansion pack also had the titular scenarios, all of which added great ideas to the game. The scenario "Sengoku: Sword of the Shogun" in particular is an excellent case study in what an overhaul mod should be.
Civ III probably had the best background music of any Civ. In fact, the Civ IV expansion packs borrowed a lot of it. I've been tempted to rebuy III just to get the rest. Graphics are deliberately minimalist but still pretty, even to this day. The battle animations still have their charm as well.
Overall, you could do a lot worse for as cheap as Civ III Complete is now, and the modding tools are fairly straightforward. But maybe I'm just skewed toward one of the games of my childhood.
Ignore the 1 out of 10 rating, it is a complex game but it is not over-complicated at all.
It is a fantastic game and made better playing with friends.
Fantastic overall, and still a delight even with IV and V available.
I would have given it a 0 but there is no option. Civ 3 is like a dead horse's head on a baguette sandwich that is the civ series, there was civ 1 which was a fine ornate plate from which the foundations of the civ series was born, there was civ 2 which gave birth to many of the quality features we know and love today. Then came this terrible abomination that was over complex in all the wrong ways and had none of the good features that the original two had or any of the good ones the later two had, it's pretty much just worthless. I think when I played this is the day that my religous side died,it doesn't even have a religous feature I just didn't think a god would let it into this world. The only reason I waste more of my life on this trash masquerading as a product is to prevent you from having to. Ruined my childhood would not play again 1/10.