How are the world maps?

[orange]

I just talked to Christantine the Great, says both maps are crap. Anyone else want to negate this and raise my hopes up I won't have the game until Saturday when my parents bring it to me at Uni.

[Dis]

I've only uncovered australia. I'm happy enough with australia. I hear most of the complainst are about Europe.

face it folks, Italy and other parts of Europe just aren't that big in real life.

[Case]

They look awful:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31326

[Christantine The Great]

Dissident, although they aren't big are 3 tiles for Italy and NOTHING for Greece (especially how there's a Greek civ) enough?

[orange]

man! QUITE awful! I saw some shots of different areas of the map...

Unacceptable!

[Kc7mxo]

The earth maps are terrible. I was just looking at the huge one in the editor, and england is smaller on IT than in civ 2. Room for one city. And there is no ireland.

England is just a little lump.

And look at the size of spain. Hah. And they're not even in the game! hah hah hah hah.

[DaShi]

Are there any zoomed in maps, for scenarios and such? Like the CivII maps of Greece or East Asia. Those were fun to play on because the cities are more realistically sized to the geography.