Rate the game

[foodguy]

i know there are problems with it as far as editing, but i never did that anyway (i'm pretty much of a "play it the way it came" guy). the real test of this game is that the cd hasn't left my computer at home since November. i haven't played another game in that time and finish one game of civ3 only to start another. in the first incarnation, i wasn't finishing all of the games, by the time you got to industrial age, the game seemed to drag. that is no longer true. it's exciting to the end.

[Zoid]

I gave it a 6 (before 1.21 it would´ve got a 4...) It has definetly taken the step over the line that divides a-waste-of-time-game to quite-playable-game. Finally, I might add

[Zoid]

Originally posted by lockstep


Don't you think he would have told us why - at full length?

Nope, I sense a banana vote with that one...

[ixnay]

9

The latest patch is a definite improvement, but there's still some room for improvement.

[Grrr]

Currently it is a really good game. If only they could give us MP and a desent Mod/Scenario engine, and then I'd give it a 9.

[Flanker]

8. I think scenarios is the thing I miss most, MP is not that important IMO, but of course it would be nice to try. I sometimes also think it has lost a bit of that ol' Civ feeling - e.g, when playing Civ II with wonder movies and hilarous advisors, it was a little more "human" feeling about it. As you actually played as a civilization. Nah, bad description, maybe it´s time for me to go to bed...

[Colonel Kraken]

I rated Civ3 an 8. Good, solid, fun single player. I think I agree with what notyoueither had to say, though: perhaps a good, solid 7 would be more like it. An excellent editor/scenario creator would bump that to a 9. If it also had at least hotseat player along with that: a 10, baby!

[dawidge]

I give it a 6. If I hadn't played CIV2 or SMAC/X, it would be a 10 and I wouldn't see the problems that I have with the game, I would just accept it as game mechanics and deal with it. Un

1.21 is better than 1.16/7, but I feel like the game has a long way to go. CIV2 was a 10 for its time. Even when it was crashing when I'd do something as simple as arrow through my cities (fixed with patch) I was hooked on it. I'm thinking seriously of ditching it and firing up another game of SMAC. It's been almost a year since I played it. It wil probably make me tempted to lower the score I gave to CIV3, though.

[Jethro83]

8

Purely because with 1.21, there has been huge improvement in the game, and it is getting close to perfection.

But there's definitely room for more improvement. Most notably, a user friendly scenario system, and editor and the ability to create your own civs without having to replace existing ones, or use Civ3Multitool.

[simwiz2]

I gave it a very low 7 (was considering 6), and pre-1.21 would be a low 5. It would probably be a very solid 7 right now, but there are some glitches/bugs that i have noticed with 1.21

[Simpleton]

When the game first came out I was one of the Pro-Civ IIIers but the more I play it the more I see that it just isn't really that good. There are a lot of good ideas but I just don't like how everything has come together in this game.
When Civ II came out I played it very often but Civ III has had trouble keeping my attention. The patches have done little to improve it for me. I gave it a 6 but it probably deserves a 6.5.
My criticism aside, it is 10X the game CTP or CTP2 ever were.

[nationalist]

Its a 7. Very good, not great. Yet. In a few months... who knows?

[Grrr]

A few months... then we'll see.

[Spock]

8 Rarely does Civ 3 get removed from my computer.....except when my wife's mother sends pictures on disc....then my wife has the nerve to take up all MY precious space with flippin pictures...why in the world does she think she has the right to ta....here she comes....got to go.

[Dis]

Can you still build aircraft carriers before you can build planes?