*Plays an Arab country*
*Discovers Oil*

2 Turns later: "America has declared war on us!"



11/10 for historical Accuracy

You sit down and play 15 minutes and when you look outside 4 hours have passed.

"I'll just play a quick round of Civ"

[16 hours later]

"...Where did the sun go?"

I've played this game a little more than I should. Granted this is the only game I play, I own the the entire series of Civilizations. I like this one the best. For a few bucks you can enjoy it for a long time to come. Definite buy.

Only in this game 2055 you will not know how to make the wheel but know how to make train tracks

Still a better histroy class then our education system - Everyone 10/10

I'm new to Civilization games, and pretty new to turn based strategy games in general. However, I still enjoyed this game a lot. I'm awful, I lose pretty much every time, and I still have fun. This game has you building a civilization from scratch, trying to expand city by city to become the best civilization possible. At the start, you are given TONS of options. Picking what civilization you want to be to determine your starting perks, climate, weather, the age of the world, difficulty, barbarian options, AI agreesiveness, the ratio of water to land, and a whole bunch of customizable options for the rules and game limits. It's a lot to take in. And once you start, you can work towards whatever kind of civilization you want, from city structures to your units to your research... there's just a lot of options. But, what makes this game so cool is that there are not only a lot of options for starting and working your way through the game, there are also multiple ways to win the game as well. So you can replay lots of times trying to win in all the different ways available. If you are being severely outmatched in one area by another civilization, perhaps you can salvage your game by switching to another goal for victory. It's really very clever.

However, there ARE some issues with this game. It can be a lot to take in at first, especially since the tutorial mode is defaulted to off. I learned everything by winging it but not everyone will have the patience or luck for it. It'll take a while just to get used to what everything does and understanding how to navigate the game. Also, games tend to take hours to complete, which can also be rough if you don't have much time to play. It'll take A LOT of time to get acquainted with the game and to play in general so it's a HUGE time suck. I just wanted to get that point clearly across. Also... it's really hard... or I just suck... or both. Also... the online has been shut down, making this single player only. There ARE some complicated and iffy ways of working around it to play online, but they aren't worth the risk or hassle. The online is supposedly coming to Steamworks in the future, but until it comes, online is not a viable options, which is the whole reason I got it in the first place and that's diappointing, but it's my own fault for not looking into it more I guess.

Despite the issues, this game is VERY cheap. Five bucks for hours and hours of gameplay, including the two expansions to the game. Easily worth it, especially if you're looking to get into the Civilization series or TBS game in general. Just be aware of the time it will take to enjoy the game.

Back when resources could be depleted...

Ahh the memories this game brings back, From playing this, Starcraft, and MoOII (which needs to be rereleased for modern OS), It was a good time. Sometimes it's good to step back from the super high res graphics that triple-A titles give you and get some nestalga with older graphics, not to mention play one of the greatest TBS games ever released. Plus it's Five dollars. Why would you NOT buy this?

Personal Experience: This is the first Civilization game I've ever played and before I knew it I was getting angry sitting at school thinking about how the Mayans were advancing on Moscow. I finally get home and load it up to push the attack to get flaked and then have Moscow taken.

10/10 Would buy for loads of fun.

My friend introduced me to this game a long time ago, and I can't thank him enough! although I only have 2 hours on the steam version I happily spent hundreds ( at least) on the disc version he loaned me ( back when you could do that).
But anyway the reason your reading this is to learn weather or not this game is worth 5 bucks to buy. To answer that you must ask yourself some questions.
1) do you like running your own country and mercilessly clicking other countries to death?
2) do you like exploring randomly generated worlds and clicking other countries to death?
3) do you like sending hundreds of units at enemys to make them fight to the death with other countries units by clicking?
4) do you enjoy classical music while clicking other countires to death?
5) do you care that there are 3 newer versions of the game?

If you answered yes to 1-4 and no to 5 BUY THE GAME
If you answered yes to 5 don't buy the game you nostalgia hater
If you answered no to 5 and yes to 3 of the first 4 questions then BUY THE GAME
If you answered no to 5 and yes to 2 of the first 4 questions you may want to consider waiting untill the game goes on sale
If you answered no to 5 and yes to 1 of the first 4 questions you may be looking at the wrong genre of games
If you answered yest to 5 and no to the first 4 questions you ARE looking at the wrong genre of games


- TheCanadianGamers Bman
youtube.com/gamersofcanadaeh

SPOILER ALERT: If you press the "Next Turn" button, you'll get free cocaine.

11/10 ...just one more turn...

"When I thought I was out, they pulled me back in, and it's now sunrise"

No seriously, as a huge fan of the serires my whole life, Civilization III is quite possibly the best out of them all, and for several reasons

10/10 buy it

still my favorite of the civilization games

Arguably the best game in the Civilization series. Even 13 years after its release it's still fun to play.

Solid game - got 50hs of fun for £1.50 10/10

Nothing beats a classic!
Old school modern strategy game. Not too much complex or hard, but not too easy. I bought the steam eddition, but before, years ago i had thousands hours of fun with it!
For an old PC it's perfect. Great game!

The game is old. The game is definetly recomented from my part.

I had to lower the screen resolution to avoid the 'tiny-litle-units' making my ayes go into pain. :-) But after all these years, I really enjoyed again the struggle to build a sivilization. There are newer versions of the same game nowdays. But I really believe that each of the Civilization games has its unique satisfaction to offer the strategy gamer, even if Civ IV is my prefered one.

I definetly recoment CIV III, especially moded with mods like "Rise And Rule", which add many new units, technologies etc. The problem is, I can not clearly identify what is this 'different gameplay aspects' that kept me playing CIV II all these hous and not starting a CIV IV or CIV V campain... The differenses on units, wonders, railway inprovements etc, should not be enouph to get me playing a game as old as this one... On the other hand, I got myself missing the real-movie councelors of CIV-II, but I don't think I will play that old love again :-)

In any case. Considering the very low price that you can purchse this old game (Civilization III), especially in a bountle together with the newet versions, I definetly believe that any gamer that likes turn -base build-expand strategies should give it a try. Even for the shenarios of the 'complete' edition, a CIV-V fun could find in CIV-III a way to further expand his Civilization gamepleasure.

Have a good game everyone :-)

damn son where'd you find this?
8/8 m9

A well-built classic 4X timesink, Civ III still holds up exceptionally well, even with newer iterations available.

Perfect for playing while binge-watching your favourite tv show.

- Skinny from the Fat B*stard (curator link)

Runs great on windows 8.1. Fun game for 5 bucks.

This is the best Civ of them all.