Is PTW worth 20 bucks?

[Artifex]

CompUSA has PTW on sale for 20 bucks. Is it worth it?

[player1]

If you are hard-core Civ3 fan, or just like Hotseat and PEBM I would say BUY it!

In other cases...
I don't know, maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't.

[asleepathewheel]

yes

its a much improved SP experience

and expansionist civs pop cities from huts now

[alva]

I'm curious as to what the price here will be?

[Theseus]

No brainer for me in SP.

[Carver]

$30, even $20, is a rip off (it's gonna be a good Christmas for the children and spouses of Hunt Valley). But from the consumer's point of view, it's worth it. Considering all the hours I've already played - much better than a movie.

[Artifex]

Well I bought it tonight at COMPUSA. $20 isn't that bad for the new civs.

If multi ever shapes up I might give that a try, but for now I guess I'll stick with single player.

[Artifex]

The nays are gaining lol...

BTW Any ETA on when multi WILL be fixed??

[Minuteman]

I'm still on the fence with regards to this question.

For those, like me, who prefer SP mode to MP, you'll probably enjoy the additions that Firaxis has made. Whether those additions warranted an additional charge is certainly debatable, but they do enhance the title nonetheless.

However, if you want a fulfilling MP experience from PTW, then you're either better off waiting for this game to be properly patched, or taking a pass altogether.

[notyoueither]

Artifex,

No announcement yet.

[Harovan]

The SP improvements are good and generally worth the money. Heck, if I can go to a bar and spend the $30 for one evening, I can as well pay that amount for an extension for a game, that I enjoyed for a year now. The AI got some improvements, we have new civs, units, improvements and a bunch of neat new victory conditions. Sounds as if it's worth the money.

Now comes the MP part. I'm not much into online MP (lack of predictable, continuous time) and I would hardly have noticed it myself, but I keep to hear, that it's unusable, except for very simple duels. Blaming it on Gamespy is no excuse, it has been well known before, that this service is not reliable. PBEM as my favorite MP option seems to work so far (it's really not very hard to code), but again I hear about security issues, like the possibility to cheat by opening PBEM games in SP mode. Thank God there are no negative responses yet for Hotseat games, but those are the easiest kind of MP. What shall I say about a Multiplayer extension, which MP part doesn't work entirely? Sorry, but .

EDIT: I just read, that there are also pathetic flaws in hotseat mode... It's really disappointing, that the most used sentence since the release of Civ3 is "I hope they fix it in a patch".

[The Pioneer]

Can somebody explain to me what Hotseat or PBEM is?

As Sir Ralph said, if one goes to a bar and spends $30 for a night out, he can also spend the same amount for the extension of a good game that has kept my interest for more than a decade.

On the other side, I have no interest at all for MP and from what I know about the enhancements of the SP mode makes this interesting to me.

Besides, the new civs should give it a bit more flavor.

So long...

[Harovan]

Hotseat is a multiplayer game on one computer. The player, who's turn it is, sits down, does his turn, stands up, turns away, then the next one sits down and so on. Thus, playing on the "hot seat".

PBEM means "Play by email". It's MP with a savegame sent around by email. It needs to be encrypted and password protected, so that others can't open it in SP mode, play ahead and see your units and locations.

[The Pioneer]

Thank you Sir Ralph!

So long...

[player1]

I see no probelms with Hotseat.

Don't always belive in what other say.