Apolyton Review: Day 1 (and Day 2 and Day 3 and Day 4 and Day5!)

[MarkG]

Originally posted by LaRusso
mark, i also played greeks - are there any particular civs that really hated you? americans wanted to scorch every town i had. i am just wondering if there is something preprogrammed in their attitude.

not sure, although in both games i ended up having the french on my side and the egyptians against me

[Fidel]

me 2. in both games

[MarkG]

still, it was two different cases: in the first game they egyptians didnt choose to hate, they just happened to be in the same continent with me and they were blocking my expansion

in the second though, it was just me, the french and the egyptians, we had never been in war and i had actually protection pacts with both when the egyptians decided to brake it

[MarkG]

"day 4" is posted

http://www.apolyton.net/civ3/reviews/apolyton/day4/

[yin26]

Hey, I got my own tag! Anyway, good series, Markos. Nice ending graphics ...

[TCO]

It looks like some of the multimedia/eye rewards were improved but some problems were present. In Civ2, it was painfully obvious that the Spaceship part of the game was not well done. The build screen was ugly, the in-flight screen looked like 1982 computer graphics (although the landing at AC was nice), and the manual and strat guide and civopedia were all missing explanations of how the SS part of the game worked.

In Civ3, it looks like they've done some nice things but still have some holes. The replay is good. The SS build screen is better, but the landing sequence is worse. And all the wonder movies are missing (downgrade from Civ2 and SMAC. And really unfortunate...for non-hard core gamers, these types of reward are very nice.) Also, looks like they went pretty cheap on the diplomatic vitctory screens. Would have though they would give you more eye candy. Somethings like what Markos suggests. Since you have all the leaders art, use it better to create some type of fun conclusion.

[Master Marcus]

I'm joining the others to thank you for the good summarized job you have done with your impressions, Markos. Good visuals and comments, just to the point.

The spaceship screen is one of my favorites too, and as I already said elsewhere and in my review, the UN election is chunky on the other hand, without any graphical detail - this is a drawback. Like me many of us seem to feel not really rewarded when we complete a game by any other victory than Space. I don't think the sole reason to avoid a second disc at release is sufficient to justify this. NOT A SINGLE VOICEOVER in the game??? I never saw this in any decent & recent game... Perhaps in an upcoming expansion, extra $$$$$.

[Darkknight]

hmmm +8 that score will I assume go down once I play the game

[Father Beast]

Alexander the cruel????

I just looked at one of your end game screens, and saw you listed as "the Cruel".

What's up with that? I thought they confirmed a few months ago that we get the "Dan Quayle" screen, not the "forkbeard" screen.

did they change their mind at the last minute?

[Mahdimael]

The one thing that was disappointing was that the UN was only used for the diplomatic victory. I can understand why they would do this, since it's built near the end of the game, but I feel it would be better if it came earlier on and allowed more global diplomatic options (pollution agreements, etc).

[Fidel]

Originally posted by GP
The SS build screen is better, but the landing sequence is worse.

you mean takeoff sequence? i thought it was absolutely gorgeous....i was really impressed
there is no landing sequence, IIRC

[TCO]

missing = crappy

[Fidel]

hahaa, this game is broken

[TCO]

Originally posted by LaRusso
hahaa, this game is broken

I'm sorry your game is broken. What's wrong?

[SerapisIV]

Originally posted by Master Marcus
The spaceship screen is one of my favorites too, and as I already said elsewhere and in my review, the UN election is chunky on the other hand, without any graphical detail - this is a drawback. Like me many of us seem to feel not really rewarded when we complete a game by any other victory than Space. I don't think the sole reason to avoid a second disc at release is sufficient to justify this. NOT A SINGLE VOICEOVER in the game??? I never saw this in any decent & recent game... Perhaps in an upcoming expansion, extra $$$$$.

God I hope that there aren't any voice overs, my computer already slows to a crawl when I have the music on in the late industrial age...forget about enemy unit animations.