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| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $6.61
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 1353
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Nt
Genre: turn-based_strategy_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 25766
Model: 21838
UPC: 710425218385
EAN: 0710425218385
ASIN: B00029QR7O
Release Date: July 29, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Build the ultimate empire in an epic quest to rule the world. | | • | This all-in-one collection of the original Civilization III and its two expansions is the perfect opportunity for Civ newcomers to experience the “greatest computer strategy game of all time.” | | • | Negotiate, trade, conquer, and rule the world. The addictive Sid Meier gameplay gives you many paths to victory by combining diplomatic finesse, cultural domination, and sheer military might. | | • | Enjoy the definitive Civ III experience. All rule changes, extra scenarios, rebalancing of units, special abilities, additional units, difficulty levels, incremental patches, and other game options wrapped up into one package. | | • | Includes all Conquest scenarios, multiplayer modes, and 31 playable nations. |
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Product Description
Civilization III: Complete gives you control of an ancient empire -- expand it and conquer all the world. Bring multiple nations and tribes under your banner, through conquest, trade, diplomacy, or any other tool you can muster. This collection features the original Civilization III and its two expansion packs, Play The World and Conquests. Conquests offers new strategic features like outposts, airfields and radar towers -- plus new guerilla units and modern-day Wonders like the stock market and the Internet Multiplayer modes include Turn-Based, Simultaneous Turns, and Turn-less, multiplayer game types include Elimination, Domination, Regicide, and Capture the Flag
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| Customer Reviews: Read 63 more reviews...
 Too time-consuming and unfair. December 6, 2008
Austin Somlo (Vincentown, NJ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete is my very first experience when it comes to Civilization games after discovering that it has been called the game of the year, decade, and lifetime by various computer game magazines. I am a big fan of strategy based games going back from mid 80s, and I am pretty hard to impress when it comes to the originality, fun factor, and game play of such games. Playing Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete seemed to be a cool game from the outset. Then I started to find things wrong with it that frustrated me to my wits, forcing me to detest the game so badly. First of all, while I enjoy the elements of the game that it offers, some of them are later found useless such as diplomacy, trading, and government. The bigger my empire becomes, the longer each turn will take. I wish that there was a feature that I can forego the minutiae details but rather focus on what I want to focus on, which is warfare. Basically, any strategy game is always about warfare, and Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete shouldn't be any different. The idea of raising an army is painfully slow and mind-numbing while I wait for each turn to pass by. Even worse is the government, which I thought by each passing level upwards, it was supposed to make my empire to be better and more efficiently run. But nooo....it actually made things worse. After a trial and error, I've resigned to the fact that Despotism (the lowest level of government) is the best over any others including Democracy. Another thing that made game play worse is the control of corruption which is, I later learned, basically inevitable. It's impossible to work out trades with other countries because they are simply not interested in what I am offering unless they offer me ridiculous terms for their advantage. Speaking of advantages, what's up with the battles? It seems like I am being cheated on when I have an army of twenty men and horses against a pathetic team of five and lose the battle completely. It further gets worse whenever I try to take over a city because of the walls. Incredulously, although Large Wonders take a while to build up, the other countries manage to finish many of the advanced ones in a record-setting pace after I finish the first two. In end, I could never try to finish the game although I invade a country and conquer towns and cities alike because it is quite time-consuming and laborious to see it through that I am simply content giving up the game. I just can't do it because my time is better off spent elsewhere, and I've played much better games that aren't so unfair and taxing. If there are improvements upon Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete and the fairness factor is restored with respect to my time spending, then I would gladly play the game.
 Awesome game November 30, 2008
Tammy J. Cusick
My son loves it, as well as his father. lol It arrived so quickly. I was impressed!
 Good but not great. Yet! November 9, 2008
rscampb (Seattle, Wa USA)
I have been playing Civ III for about three weeks now. I am staying at the lowest levels while I get used to the controls and so far I can say that I both love and hate this game. The graphics are much better than previous versions. If you have enjoyed past versions of Civilization you will enjoy this one. It has more groups to choose from (Roman, Russian, German etc.). The units are more in line with the group chosen (Hoplite only for the Greek and Immortals only for the Persian). Instead of building settlers to build roads and irrigation you have workers. They can do much of what the old settlers could but they move farther per turn. Units are supported by all cities instead of just the one that created them so they don't die just as you are going into battle. There are more Wonders to build and they have introduced minor wonders.
What I did not care for started with the manual. It reads like an encyclopedia. It doesn't give much information about the new units or the commands to control them. You cannot select the world map for a standard game. In earlier versions when you made a scientific advance you could build all the units that were created by that advance. In Civ III you must have the strategic resources (coal, oil, iron etc.) under your control in order to build them. I would have liked to get a quick reference guide for the keyboard controls with the game but I found one at the Firaxis web site. It really ticked me off that they took away the cheat toggle. I liked having that option for when I got really frustrated and wanted to finish off an opponent.
"buy this instead of spore." October 6, 2008
I believe that after seeing the reviews for spore I decided not to get it. apparently it is ILLEGAL to play this game with someone else or lend it to them. so that means ONLY you can play it. it also causes problems on your computer, causing your computer to crash,freeze etc.. civ III is a fun game and does allow other people to play it. I highly reccomend this game.
 DANGER - SecuROM October 6, 2008
demon (Brooklyn, New York)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I installed and enjoyed this game, until I found my USB CD/DVD combo drive wouldn't work, then my IE browser started crashing, and soon after I realized that this game installed SecuROM v7 on my PC. I am not impressed. I completely uninstalled the game, but could not get rid of SecuROM. I still get requests to register Civ3 Complete when I logon to my PC, even though it's uninstalled, and my drive is still not functioning, and IE is still crashing. There is no warning on the box anywhere that SecuROM is on it - I NEVER would have purchased or installed it had I been aware. The only solution now is to reformat my entire drive and install the o/s from scratch. The game itself I would rate 4 stars, but the SecuROM b.s. ruined my experience.
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