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    ... Or does "Play the World" sound... odd? I just think they could have come up with a better name than that...

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    I agree wholeheartedly. XP names in general have been quite lame recently. Has anyone seen the name of the Zoo Tycoon XP? It's called "Dinosaur Digs"! That arugably even puts "Play the world" to shame!
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    • #3
      I see your point.

      You think they could pick something like "Civilization III: The Legacy Continues" or something nifty like that.

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      • #4
        Or why not Civilization 3: The Rise of Capitalism, or Civ3: The Conquerers [of our Wallets].

        the SMAC XP had a good name, Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.

        And btw, why didn't they call it Sid Meier's Civilization 3? It's the Sid Meier's name on the box that usually tells me it's a good game. It makes it sound as if Firaxis followed the way of Myst 3, and contracted out their game to some company that isn't as good as themselves. not that they did, but it sounds like it from the lack of the trademark title prefix.

        EDIT: looked at box and such, it has Sid Meier's. I was just commenting on the lack of it being publicized about with that prefix.
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        • #5
          Yeah, "Play The World" sounds like a sports reference to me. Maybe "Endless History" or "Future History" or something like that would have been more topical.
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          • #6
            it seems that they wanted to emphasize the mp part. i think the initial title was "Play against the world" which probably was considered too long....
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            • #7
              Originally posted by MarkG
              it seems that they wanted to emphasize the mp part. i think the initial title was "Play against the world" which probably was considered too long....
              If they wanted to emphasize the mp part, they could have called it "Civilization 3: Beat your Buddies"
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              • #8
                Civ3: The Way it Should Have Been
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                • #9
                  How about this one?

                  Civilization 3: The Expansion Pack

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                  • #10
                    Well, considering that you'll have eight new civs to play, the option to play against other players, AND (hopefully) a better editor to create your own custom civs, it doesn't seem entirely inappopriate to me.
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                    • #11
                      I still think it sounds somewhat funny.

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                      • #12
                        Well, at least with Play the World it delivers what it says it does- but it sounds fairly campy- aimed at little children

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                        • #13
                          I agree with -

                          "Civ 3: The way it should have been"

                          Its all just a big con to get yet more money out of us. Expansion of their bank balances more like.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by siredgar
                            Well, considering that you'll have eight new civs to play
                            They should have called it Play Eurasia then
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                            • #15
                              Have you seen the "play the world.txt" in the civ3Text directory?

                              ; Play the world
                              ; text strings for the main menu
                              ; Created: D.E.



                              #PTW
                              EXIT
                              MAIN MENU
                              Get the Game of the Week
                              Get the Game of the Day
                              View Scores
                              Exit
                              Your Current Score:

                              #PTWERR_SERVER_NOT_FOUND
                              Cannot find the Server or communications error.

                              #PTWERR_BAD_USERNAME
                              Bad username, please re-enter or create a new account.

                              #PTWERR_BAD_PASSWORD
                              Password incorrect, please try again.

                              #PTWERR_UNDEFINED
                              Undefined error. Server returned something unexpected.

                              # ; This line must remain at end of file


                              It looks as if their multiplayer server was to be named PTW from the beginning.
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