military and historical

Hopefully this piece will be everything that Black and White wasn't.

It is a great game. You finally have the power to conquer all! What a great game!

I remember many years ago when the acclaimed Civilization II came out. Just 2 years ago I bought Civ II. At first the game took some getting use to, but it was very addictive, and after a while became.... repetitious. I was thrilled to learn that a new game was added to the Civilization series, Civilization III, I immediately got online found the cheapest price on the internet and bought it! To me, the new Civ III, is a whole new world. You can actually conduct politics, lol. I know it sounds funny, and sure there's nothing complicated, or extraordinary about the process, but this feature is something that changed the game entirely. No longer do you HAVE to completely whip out your enemy or be the first into outer space, you can win diplomatically. You can trade, buy, sell, loan: resources, cities, money, workers, technologies. There are more features too that just completely change the game, the graphics.... are great, and they add a sense of energy to the game. Sure to some people they get old and repetitive, but you can turn them off. Something else the old game lacked that the new Civ III makes up for is the MUSIC!!!! I don't know about everyone else's copy of Civ II, but mine didn't play much music, and if it did, it only played one song then stopped. The new Civ III has pretty good music, and it changes as the game progresses. Yeah the music is pretty good, up until you reach the modern age, then it becomes some techno-80's music, lol. Another great feature that I haven't mentioned is the Map edit. The new map edit is much, much, improved, especially if you download the Civilization patch off the internet. You basically can control the way the game functions completely with the map edit. You can change how powerful units are, how much the cost, you can control, what technologies a nation has when the game starts, you can control how units function, the technologies, the wonders, even how much food a tile produces. You have actual resources you can gather, exploit, in a number of ways in the Civ III. You can gather them normally or colonize them to receive their benefits. Another pro of Civ III is that you can tell the cities, in the game, how to govern themselves, what units to produce or not to produce, what improvements to produce, what the new citizens become, and whether or not to build wonders. Overall there is soooo... much that the new Civilization offers, and the only way to truly cover all of it is just to recommend that you buy it. If you have never played a civilization game BE PREPARED, it is very different from most games. Some people will either love it... or find it boring and/or confusing. The new features such as the cities being able to govern themselves takes a lot of the repetition out of playing the game. The turn based strategy gives you time to think in the crucial parts of the game, unlike in Command and Conquer, Rise of Nations, or Cossacks. If you like bloody action packed adventure... then this game is not for you. If you like a game with unlimited options, politics, and chess mixed together, then you'll love Civilization III! I, myself, love the game. It runs excellent on a laptops or low end computers. I play it on my laptop all the time. Yeah the game can be lengthy-anywhere between 1 hour and a month. Most games last between 4 and 6 hours. But the game only lasts as long as you want it. When I usually go to play a game, I'll design my own elaborate map, for a day, then the next day play the map, and like I said the game usually will take up a whole day to play. But if you love these types of games, this game is completely worth all the money you pay!!!! I guarantee you that if you like the game that you will play this game longer than any other game you have ever owned. There will be times when you grow tired of it, you may not play it for 2 months, but eventually you will go back to playing it and you will play about 100 more games than grow tire then repeat the whole process. Unlike other games where after you beat the game you never touch it again, Civilization III will keep you coming back to play again.

Once again it's completely worth its price, if you like the game you will play it for hours at a time, on and off for the next hundred years or until the next game in the series arrives.