New screenshots!!!

[Inverse Icarus]

::starts tweaking his lightwave skills::

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Chinese city names are still hard to read tho. Maybe if it was in black or if it was in bold it would help legibility...

[Inverse Icarus]

those are old shots.

the new ones have the civs color as a background behind the citynames.

check civ3.com

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Here the links to screenshots. These are new (i think)
http://bonusweb.cz/obrazek.html?obra...ion3_scr30.jpg


bonusweb.cz/obrazek.html?obrazek=civilization3_scr33.jpg

The first one is a birds eye view of an unknown city. Looks like its on a river.
The second is the German civ in the stone age. Some of the cities are production Musketmen, an "Epic" and a 'Forbiden Palace"

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Col Bigspear
I think that the Fat Woman is Catherine the Grt of Russia, but i'm not sure. Pfffffh I don't want to play as Russia anymore

(Though I thought it was Queen Victoria at first)

I see Bismark is the new German leader.
If Mao is in why can't they make a downloadable Hitler. I know it may piss people off, but I sure would like to see that stare at the diplomacy table . Ok Adolf you win, here's all my gold.
Or a Czar Nicolas II

I thought it was Victoria too...

[Comrade Tribune]

Most of the screens look quite nice.

Too many roads/rails.

You don´t need the scientific method for flight ; so You can get helicopters long before even simple tanks; weird.

I do not always understand the ratio behind what is within a border and what is not. On one of the screens there is a single tile northeast of Rome, where I really can´t figure out why it belongs to Your civ.

When have the Germans occupied Salzburg? Salzburg is, was and will be Austrian. (Seriously, this is like making Warsaw Russian, or Brussels French.)

[Rhysie]

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune
When have the Germans occupied Salzburg? Salzburg is, was and will be Austrian. (Seriously, this is like making Warsaw Russian, or Brussels French.)

Salzburg was in civ2, I think as one of those 'extra' city names which come when you run out of civ specific ones. I might be wrong, it may have been in as a german one, but it was definitely in.

Anyway, my point is that it might be a 'neutraly' named city and its just co-incidence that germany has it, or they might have run out of german cities and put austrian ones in later on the list.

After all, would you rather your 52nd city as german was an austrian city or an australian one?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Rhysie
After all, would you rather your 52nd city as german was an austrian city or an australian one?

Id prefer them to be Australian cities, of course

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by Col Bigspear

(Though I thought it was Queen Victoria at first)

Yeah, that's what I thought too.
It certainly looks quite much like Victoria in her
old days. So I was quite confused for a few moments,
because Beth II has appeared earlier as the ruler of Britain,
so I almost thought that they at Firaxis have changed their mind.

But, I don't think it looks like Catherine, because (see attachment)
she looked a bit better than that old mad cow in that screenshot.

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Beth II has appeared earlier as the ruler of Britain

Liz II is our current queen, methinks you mean Liz I...

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Rhysie
Anyway, my point is that it might be a 'neutraly' named city and its just co-incidence that germany has it, or they might have run out of german cities and put austrian ones in later on the list.

After all, would you rather your 52nd city as german was an austrian city or an australian one?

Neither; the Germans DO have 52 cities, after all. I think.

Seriously: There is something to Your argument, but as I might want to create an Austrian custom-civ, I´d prefer Austrian city names not to be used at all in the shipped game.

[Provost Harrison]

Well they are old screenshots, but still, you can gain new info from them.

Hey, even at that age, do you still reckon Catherine the Great still went with horses? Hey, maybe they should write it into the game that Catherine the Great has to acquire horse resources at all costs, otherwise she'd never be 'satisfied'

[Col Bigspear]

Who decided on Catherine the Grt anway?.
Why not Khruschev or Czar Nicolas II, who want's to play as a woman. (don't reply, Women!. Plz) Now it's been sometime since I played as England so could some one tell me if I would get called Mrs Khruschev or something?

[saracen31]

Originally posted by Col Bigspear
Who decided on Catherine the Grt anway?.

Gotta love that political correctness by Firaxis.

[Col Bigspear]

Originally posted by red_jon


Liz II is our current queen, methinks you mean Liz I...

Ok, the Queen is instantly recognizable, but the Monarchy has been out of power since the Civil war. ( and I am aware that Queen Liz I ruled before the Civil war). I wan't Tony Blair

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