New Civ3 Screenshots

[Imran Siddiqui]

On Gamespot, as I've alluded to in the news item (above).

Here is the link:

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/screenindex/0,10866,2807241,00.html

One is the spaceship view screen... another a diplomacy screen involving the Egyptians in the Renaissance Age... and the last the Egyptian palace screen.

[ancient]

i think only the spaceship view is new.. the cleopatra is the old one and the building we already have..

[Grumbold]

Looks nice. I'm puzzled by the complete lack of irrigation and mines around those cities though. Are terrain improvements no longer essential steps to victory?

[Fiera]

I must reckon that the Palace Screen is an amazing piece of art, plus it gives you all the flavor of the ol'good Civilization... Hats off to Firaxis on this one.

[down th' pub]

This does confirm the new design for the new "SS Wang" as seen in the earlier screen shots.

[Inverse Icarus]

and i told you, only 5 testicles. not 6.

[Steve Clark]

Originally posted by Grumbold
Looks nice. I'm puzzled by the complete lack of irrigation and mines around those cities though. Are terrain improvements no longer essential steps to victory?

They never were. I have won several games on deity in Civ2 without terrain improvements (even without wonders of any kind). Also, remember in some scenarios, there wouldn't be any need for terrain improvements since city growth is not an objective.

Imran, I've keeping our friends at FOFC informed of all of the latest Civ3 stuff. Please stop by sometime.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Maybe I will... haven't been there in a while.

[The diplomat]

The spaceship screen looks really cool. Not just the spaceship itself looks much nicer graphically from civ2, but there appears to be more detailed components to build than in civ2. For example it appears that instead of just building an engine module, structure module or colony module ala civ2, we now have more dinstinct modules like a stasis chamber, a planetary party lounge, thrusters, cockpit, docking bay, etc.

Firaxis

[Grumbold]

Originally posted by Steve Clark
They never were. I have won several games on deity in Civ2 without terrain improvements (even without wonders of any kind). Also, remember in some scenarios, there wouldn't be any need for terrain improvements since city growth is not an objective.

If the AI plays (and cheats) as badly as it does in Civ2 then I will be very disappointed. Surely there is no reason not to irrigate unless you want to increase the challenge because the game cannot offer one if you use all its features?

[connorkimbro]

While the last seems to show the Egyptian Palace screen.

Look closer there, bucko! Perhaps all you just noticed were the spinxes, but there is also roman/gothic/asian and seemingly other types of architecture in there as well. Perhaps they put all the parts different kinds of architecture to show off the different kinds? Shall we try and identify all that is in there?

[Provost Harrison]

Look at the spaceship screen and on the parts of the spaceship. A planetary party lounge eh? I like parties

[Zanzin]

From looking closely at the diplomacy screenshot (and this has nothing to do with diplomacy), in the background I can make out 4 different levels of sea depth - that's pretty cool. Close to shore it really light blue, then a bit further out you've got normal light blue, then a bit darker, and finally there's seems to be some rather dark blue water.....I'm happy to see Firaxis got this one worked out!!

Maybe we shouldn't have worried about all those alpha shots so much afterall!

[Inverse Icarus]

yea, it would be cool if subs lost their stealth ability in the "shallow" areas, or if trimeres would only be lost in the deeper tiles.

[isaac brock]

the planetary party lounge is sweet.

what i don't like is that the terrain looks flat. I don't care if a few ADD crack children on sugar highs got confused by SMAC's terrain. I want some friggin bumpy terrain