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Sid Meier's Civilization 3 Complete | List Price: $49.99
Discount Price: $38.50
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Platform: Mac OS X
Brand: Aspyr
Binding: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2006-01-08
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - Ultimate 3-in-1 box set that includes Civilization III plus the Play the World Multiplayer and Conquest expansion packs
- Features great new Civs, and Scenarios
- Contains a new active world generator for more realistic maps and organic terrain features
- Civilization III: Conquest includes seven new civilizations, enhanced technical features, and more
- Improvements to the AI, Combat System, Interface, Rally Points, Governors, Leaders, Unit-Stacks, and Game Balance
Addictive game, but infuriating copy protection [Posted on 2006-11-09]
I'm a Civ 3 addict. I've lost weeks if not months (to date) of my life playing Civ 3, so I decided to buy the Complete package since Aspyr released a free patch to make Complete (not the original) run natively on Intel Macs. (You can download the patch at Apple menu > Mac OS X Software...)
The enhancements of Civ III Complete are widely written about on the net, but I hadn't read about one thing which I'm particularly annoyed about. The game requires that you insert the DVD in order to start. Mounting a disk image (I tried both Disk Utility and Toast) doesn't work. This is endlessly annoying since the drive is loud, it takes extra time, you have to remember to carry the DVD if you go travelling, etc. If I had known this, I might have just saved my money and stuck with the original Civ 3, which ran fine with a disk image.
The copy protection is hardly effective against determined pirates (I imagine you can clone the DVD) yet it punishes those of us who have paid for a legal copy. What's the point of that? Still, if you can look past that, I wholeheartedly recommend the game.
Awesome [Posted on 2006-12-09]
This is the most addictive turn based game I have ever played, and I don't normally like them. If you looking for a way to lose hours of your life this really is the game to do it with.
Good, Clearly Lacking In Some Departments [Posted on 2007-01-22]
Civ 3 for the Mac is another edition of the highly-successful Civ series and Sid Meier deserves kudos for another strong product. Gameplay is entertaining and a clear step up in many ways from its 1996 predecessor. Civ 3 succeeds in being a strategy game, but not one so thick with the strategies that it`ll take months to master it all.
That said I was disappointed by what was not present in the Civ 3: Complete package released by Aspyr. Civ 3 has cut out the Cheat Mode, one of the most noticeable features of Civ 2. The Cheat mode, a backdoor into the inner workings of the game, was the tunnel through which much of the game`s content could be altered by players. As a result of its absence the game is far harder to customize and tinker with. Also missing is the map editor, a feature which saw heavy use by Civ 2 fanatics (just check out the size of some online databases.) The Scenario Editor, through which Civ 2 could be turned into almost any strategy game, has been shown the door. My understanding is that several of these elements were included in the PC version so why aren`t they present for the Mac?
In gameplay terms Civ 3 is a clear triumph over its predecessor. I just wish we hadn`t sacrificed all that customizability in the meantime to get here.
fighting is bad [Posted on 2007-02-12]
i found that the defence on all the units is massive compared to the attck. and the bombardment feater is pittifull it takes the point out of cannons. overall the games defencive nature made it way too easy. i could beat the game easly with a few highly concentrated attaks and waiting and waiting and waiting. the diplomatic relaitions was made much better but one had to have ten units to take down 2 fortifyed units in a city. (exagerated) this made the game imposible easy if you played peasfully and defencivly but imposible if you play all all out war. you just grind forward inch by inch and it becaums more a resorce war then stratigy. i found i was bord with all dificultys fast. i however loved civ2 with was great and much more dificult.
Great upgrade to CIV III [Posted on 2007-03-11]
Much more sophisticated AI system. Added Civs are nice and make game play more varied. Excelent upgrade to orginal CIV III game.
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