Civilization III
Developer	Firaxis Games, Westlake Interactive (Mac OS, original), and Aspyr (Mac OS, Complete)
Publisher	Infogrames (now Atari), MacSoft (Mac OS), and Aspyr (Mac OS, Complete)
Designer	Jeff Briggs and Soren Johnson
Engine	Custom
Released	October 30, 2001 November 1, 2001
Genre	Turn-based strategy
Mode(s)	Single player multiplayer (with expansions)
Ratings	ESRB: Everyone (E)
Platform(s)	Windows, Mac OS
Media	CD (1)
System requirements	P300 Mhz CPU, 32MB RAM, 400 MB HD
Input methods	Keyboard, mouse

Sid Meier's Civilization III is a turn-based strategy computer game by Firaxis Games, the sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization II. It was followed by Civilization IV. Also called Civ 3 or Civ III for short, the game is the third generation of the original Civilization. The game offers highly evolved gameplay in terms of both mechanics and strategy. Unlike the original game, Civ III was not designed by Sid Meier, but by Jeff Briggs, a game designer, and Soren Johnson, a game programmer. Download high resolution version (540x650, 66 KB)Civilization 3 cover This is the cover art for a video or computer game. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... Firaxis Games is a computer game developer. ... MacSoft Games is a Minnesota, United States based computer game publisher and porter specializing in porting Microsoft Windows computer games to the Macintosh. ... 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Civilization III, like the other Civilization games, is based around building an empire, from the ground up, beginning in prehistoric times and continuing through the modern day. The player's civilization is centered around a core of cities that provide the resources necessary to grow the player's cities, construct city improvements, wonders, and units, and advance the player's technological development. The player must balance a good infrastructure, resources, diplomatic and trading skills, technological advancement, city and empire management, culture, and military power to succeed.

Gameplay

Empire management

The game focuses around a core of cities that provide the necessary production to advance the player's empire. The cities contain a certain number of citizens that draw production from the surrounding land. Shields (units of production) are used to build improvements, units, and wonders. Food is used to grow the player's cities. Each citizen requires two food units per turn to survive, and excess food is stored. Once the food storage fills up, it is emptied and the city gains a citizen. (Some food may be stored in the optional granary city improvement, which does not deplete when the city grows.) Commerce is used to allocate money to the player's treasury. The player can take a certain percentage of his or her money and allocate it to scientific research or to the happiness of his or her citizens. The player's citizens have a certain mood (happy, content, unhappy, or resisting). If the player has more unhappy than happy citizens in a single city, the city falls into civil disorder. All production ceases and no food is stored when a city is in civil disorder, and if a city remains in civil disorder for too long, improvements may be destroyed by the unruly mob. On the other hand, if the player has a city with more happy citizens than content ones, and no unhappy ones, the city will throw a celebration for the ruler (the player) called We Love the "King" Day (The Title King is able to be changed when you first choose your empire) and economic benefits ensue. Any commerce that does not go into scientific research or the player's happiness slider is placed in the player's treasury. The worker unit is used to improve the land. Mines increase shield production, irrigation increases food, and roads increase commerce, in addition to tripling movement speed of nearly all allied land units using them. Later in the game the player can build railroads, which provide instantaneous movement for all allied land units, as well as increasing the output of mines and irrigation on the same tile. Granary at Thiruparaithurai, Kumbakonam (old temple town), built around 1600-1634 A granary is a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed. ...

Scientific research

Another major feature of gameplay is scientific research. The technology tree is divided into four ages (Ancient Age, Middle Ages, Industrial Age, and Modern Age) and each age requires that the player research specific technologies to advance to the next age. There are several technologies that are not required to advance to the next age, although they provide useful bonuses that are often essential for good empire management, or may provide different alternatives to it. A science slider is used to allocate money from the player's treasury to scientific research, and can be set at 10% intervals. City improvements such as libraries, universities, and research labs also increase scientific research, as do some wonders (such as Newton's University). A scientific method or process is considered fundamental to the scientific investigation and acquisition of new knowledge based upon physical evidence. ...

Technologies can also be bought from other civilizations in return for money, resources, luxury goods or other technologies. Technologies acquired in this way can in turn be exchanged for new technologies by contacting one or more other civilizations. In this way the player may in one turn experience a considerable jump in his technological development.

If the human player is technologically backwards, for instance finding himself in the beginning of the middle age, and most of the AI players have reached the industrial age, the necessary middle age technologies are comparatively cheap, and it might thus be advantageous for the player to stop spending money on his own research for a period.

Culture

In this screenshot, it is early in the game, so only a relatively small portion of the world has been discovered, as can be seen by the mini-map in the lower left-hand corner.

Culture is a new feature to Civ III that didn't exist in previous versions of Civilization. Each city in Civilization III has a cultural rating, which is the city's influence over local terrain. Essentially, the culture's outer edge, or "border", acts as the boundary of the player's empire. When a city is created it has a culture rating of 1, which allows influence over the closest 8 squares only (a sphere of influence 1 square in radius). As the city's culture rating increases, so does its sphere of influence, bringing more territory under the player's control. Civilization 3 screenshot. ... Civilization 3 screenshot. ... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ...

In addition to influencing territorial borders, culture serves two other purposes. One is allowing the peaceful takeover, better known as culture flipping, of nearby foreign cities by influencing its citizens through the player's culture. Conquest through culture is preferable to military conquest as it does not lower the player's reputation in the global community. In addition, a civilization can win the game by having a very strong culture total.

Culture is increased turn-by-turn based on what city improvements and wonders, such as a Temple or the Hanging Gardens, have been built in that city. Cultural buildings are important as they can often prevent unhappy citizens and thus prevent civil disorder.

Civilizations

Every civilization starts with certain special abilities. Every civilization has two traits that give them bonuses that help in the corresponding area of gameplay. This also determines what two technologies you begin the game with. Also, Civilization qualities determine different abilities that a civ has. For example, a militaristic civ's units gain combat experience faster. Each civ also has a special unit that was specific to that civilization in history.

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Wonders

As in Civilization II, there are Great Wonders that can each be built only once during the entire game for just one civilization. They usually provide a major benefit to the player's entire empire. Civilization III also added Small Wonders, which can be built once by every civilization. Small Wonders have, for the most part, a sociological requirement to construct them, as well as a technological requirement. Battlefield Medicine, for example, requires that five of the player's cities have hospitals before building. Many new technologies allow the player to build a new Wonder. In each different age there are different wonders available. Below is a list of those wonders sorted by age (Ancient, Middle Ages, Industrial, and Modern). When a player captures a city with a Small Wonder, it is destroyed. If it has a Great Wonder, it doesn't get destroyed unless the player razes the city. If a great wonder is destroyed, it cannot be built again. For the town in the Republic of Ireland, see Hospital, County Limerick. ...

Ancient Age

Great Wonders

The Colossus, The Great Library, The Great Lighthouse, The Pyramids, The Oracle, The Great Wall, The Hanging Gardens

Conquests:

Mausoleum of Maussollos, The Statue of Zeus, The Temple of Artemis

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Forbidden Palace, Heroic Epic

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Middle Ages

Great Wonders

Sistine Chapel, Smith's Trading Company, Copernicus' Observatory, J.S. Bach's Cathedral, Leonardo's Workshop, Magellan's Voyage, Newton's University, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Shakespeare's Theater

Conquests:

Knights Templar

Small Wonders

Military Academy

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Industrial Age

Great Wonders

Theory of Evolution, Universal Suffrage, Hoover Dam

Small Wonders

Iron Works, Intelligence Agency, Battlefield medicine, Wall Street

Conquests:

Secret Police Headquarters

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Modern Age

Great Wonders

SETI Program, United Nations, Cure for Cancer, Longevity, Manhattan Project

Play The World:

The Internet

Small Wonders

Apollo Program, Strategic Missile Defense, The Pentagon

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Nationality

Citizens have a nationality based upon the civilization under which they were 'born.' Citizens have a 'memory' of their nationality, so that they will consider themselves members of their previous civilization until they are assimilated into their new occupying civilization through the capture of a city or a noncombatant unit. The time it takes for this change to occur is based upon the relative cultures of both civilizations, taking less time the stronger the culture of the occupying civilization is relative to the conquered civilization.

For example, if Persia captures a French city its citizens are still French until they are assimilated into Persian culture, although they are under Persian control, and will generally remain so for many turns. Units such as workers and artillery that are captured also retain their nationality, and are less efficient and unable to be upgraded. However, they have no upkeep cost.

Foreign citizens become unhappy if their ruling country is at war with their country of birth and may remain so for some time afterward. This gives recently-captured cities a high potential for rebellion. Otherwise, however, they are equally productive.

Combat

Combat is an important aspect of the game, and, although not required to win, it is nearly impossible to go through a full game without experiencing warfare at least once. Each unit begins as a "regular", with 3 hit points. A unit can gain experience through battles. Below regular is "conscript", with 2 hit points. Barbarian tribes will occasionally give up conscripts, and a player may also institute the draft, which also produces conscripts. Above regular is "veteran", with 4 hit points, then "elite", with 5 hit points. If a city has a barracks (or harbor for naval units and airport for air units), it will produce veterans instead of regulars. Each unit has an attack and defense value that determines, in theory, how well it will do against another unit. Certain terrain, as well as large cities, defending across a river, and fortifying the unit, provide defensive bonuses. (e.g. a mountain has a 100% defensive bonus, so a unit with 3 defense will have 6 when defending on a mountain). Each civilization has its own special unit that replaces and improves on an existing unit. Ultimately, however, a random number generator (RNG) determines the outcome, so it is therefore possible (although rare) for a Bronze Age spearman to defeat a modern tank, a fact that was highly criticized by the fans and was partially the reason that led to a total redesign of the combat system for Civilization IV. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A random number generator is a computational or physical device designed to generate a sequence of elements (usually numbers), such that the sequence can be used as a random one. ... Sid Meiers Civilization IV (Civilization IV or Civ4) is a turn-based strategy computer game released in 2005 and developed by lead designer Soren Johnson under the direction of Sid Meier and Meiers studio Firaxis Games. ...

Another important aspect of combat is bombardment, which can be done by artillery (catapult, cannon, artillery, radar artillery, and, in Conquests, trebuchet), air units, and more advanced naval units (destroyer, battleship, etc). Bombardment can soften a target before it is attacked, and, if attacking a city, may kill some of the population or destroy certain city improvements. Despite this, only certain units have the ability to kill other units through bombardment (known as "lethal bombardment"). For other uses, see Artillery (disambiguation). ...

When an elite unit wins a battle against an enemy unit, there is a chance that it will produce a Great Leader. (The chance is 1/16. The Heroic Epic small wonder increases this chance to 1/12). A Great Leader then has the ability to create an Army. An Army has the ability to "load" up to three units (four if the player has built The Pentagon). An Army fights as one unit, combining hit points. Once units have been loaded into the Army, however, they cannot be removed or upgraded, and they do not gain battle experience (this was changed in Conquests). The Great Leader can also be used to hurry the building of a project. This is the only way to hurry production of a Great Wonder. This was also changed in conquest, where a new type of leader unit was introduced. The scientific leader unit can be gained by researching a technology before any other civilization. The scientific leader can hurry all types of production (whereas the great leader was limited to normal improvements and small wonders) or it can start an "age of science". Once a leader does one of the possible actions, it disappears.

Units

There are a variety of units in Civilization III which are not specific to certain nations. These include the:

• Warrior (Requires nothing)
• Spearman (Requires Bronze Working)
• Archer (Requires Warrior Code, Bushido and Chivalry are real-world examples of this.)
• Scout (Requires nothing, but can only be made by expansionist civilizations)
• Chariot (Requires The Wheel and Horses)
• Horseman (Requires Horseback riding and Horses)
• Swordsman (Requires Iron Working and Iron)
• Ancient Cavalry (Requires construction of The Statue of Zeus and Ivory)
• Medieval Infantry (Requires Iron and Feudalism)
• Pikeman (Requires Iron and Feudalism)
• Longbowman (Requires Invention)
• Knight (Requires Chivalry, Horses, and Iron)
• Crusader (Requires construction of Knights Templar and Chivalry)
• Musketman (Requires Gunpowder [advance] and Saltpeter [resource])
• Explorer (Requires Astronomy)
• Cavalry (Requires Military Tradition, Horses, and Saltpeter)
• Rifleman (Requires Nationalism)
• Guerilla (Requires Replaceable Parts)
• Infantry (Requires Replaceable Parts and Rubber)
• Tank (Requires Motorized Transportation, Oil, and Rubber)
• Marine (Requires Amphibious Warfare and Rubber)
• Paratrooper (Requires Advanced Flight, Oil, and Rubber)
• TOW Infantry (Requires Rocketry)
• Modern Paratrooper (Requires Synthetic Fibers, Oil, and Rubber)
• Modern Armor (Requires Synthetic Fibers, Oil, Rubber, and aluminium)
• Mech Infantry (Requires Computers, Oil, and Rubber)
• Radar Artillery (Requires Robotics, The Laser and Miniaturization)

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Resources

In Civilization III, there are three types of resources. Each type of resource can be found only on certain types of terrain and can provide a bonus to shields, food, or commerce if found within the city radius and worked by a citizen. Bonus resources exist specifically for this purpose, while luxury and strategic resources provide other benefits as well. Luxuries and strategic resources may be traded, while bonus resources may not.

Luxury resources make the player's people happier when they are brought into a city via a road or railroad. Each luxury makes at least one content citizen happy. The effects of luxuries do not stack. For example, if the player has two wines connected, only one will provide a bonus; the other is available for trading. Building a marketplace greatly increases the effect of luxuries on that city beyond the second luxury. Keeping citizens happy is important lest the city fall into civil disorder. For general information about the genus, including other species of cattle, see Bos. ... For other uses, see Fish (disambiguation). ... Game is any animal hunted for food or not normally domesticated (such as venison). ... GOLD refers to one of the following: GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade). ... This article is about the animal. ... Species T. aestivum T. boeoticum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum T. timopheevii References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat Wheat For the indie rock group, see Wheat (band). ...

Strategic resources are resources required to train certain units, or construct certain city improvements or wonders. A certain technology is required to unlock these resources, and are often necessary for good empire management. Perhaps the most important resource is iron, which is useful from the moment it first appears on the map until the end, as it is a prerequisite for constructing railroads along with coal. Like luxuries, strategic resources do not stack. Look up dye in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Gemstone (disambiguation). ... Incense is composed of aromatic organic materials. ... For other uses, see Fur (disambiguation). ... For other uses of this word, see Silk (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Spice (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation). ... A screenshot of Civilization III city overview screen displaying the resources available for use in construction. ...

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Corruption

Though corruption existed in Civilization I and II, it has been made much more severe in Civilization III. In addition to the commerce-decreasing corruption, Civilization III includes waste (Note: Civ II includes waste as well, but it is considerably less severe), which decreases a city's productivity. The productivity of a city is measured in 'shields'. Shields are converted into units or structures, with each unit or structure costing a certain number of shields. Shields can have two colors: blue or red. The blue shields represent actual production, while red ones represent production lost to waste. In general, the farther a city is from the capital, the greater the waste will be. It is not uncommon for far-flung cities to have red shields that far outnumber the blue. The levels of corruption and waste are also dependent on the system of government of a civilization. Uniquely, in the communist system, corruption and waste are essentially spread equally amongst all cities. Also, depending on the map size and difficulty level, each civilization has an "optimal city limit." Once a civilization exceeds this limit, it will also gain corruption and waste overall for every new city it possesses. A form of government (also referred to as a system of government) is a social institution composed of various people, institutions and their relations in regard to the governance (or government) of a state. ...

There are a number of ways to combat corruption. These include building city improvements such as the courthouse and the police station. Connecting a city to the capital through a valid trade route (e.g. roads, a harbor or an airport) also helps to reduce corruption to a certain degree. Two Small Wonders, the Forbidden Palace and the Secret Police Headquarters (Communisms only) will eliminate virtually all corruption in their host city and reduce it in nearby cities. Originally these wonders functioned as second palaces in the cities in which they were built, but subsequent patches removed their function as a second pole for corruption, and merely made them reduce overall corruption in every city. Corruption will never reduce shield production to zero, but one shield per turn is virtually useless. In most counties in the United States the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse which may also house the offices of the county treasurer, clerk and recorder and assessor. ... A typical suburban police station in the United States (this one is in San Bruno, California). ... For other uses, see Forbidden City (disambiguation). ... This article is about secret police as organizations. ...

Victory conditions

There are several basic ways to win the game, some of which recur from the previous Civilization games. A player needs to meet only one of the victory conditions to win a game. They can each be enabled or disabled when setting the game rules at the beginning of a new game (except for the histograph victory). In Conquests, a Victory Status screen was added to allow a player to see how much more is needed to achieve each of the victory conditions, as well as the progress of the closest rival in regard to each particular victory path. Play the World and Conquests each introduced short game modes, which allow for faster-paced games, and specific scenarios each have their own victory requirements. The victory conditions for the base game, however, are as follows:

Conquest

One of the most straightforward of the victory conditions, a Conquest victory is achieved when no civilizations besides the player's exist, a civilization being eliminated when its last city is captured or destroyed. Despite the simplicity of concept, Conquest can be difficult to achieve as other civilizations will, naturally, resist. Along these lines, there is the "settler on a boat" problem, in which the final conquered civilization places a settler unit on a boat and takes to the high seas. The player then spends centuries tracking this boat down. Another difficulty is that Domination (below) is almost always achieved long before Conquest could be achieved, unless the Domination option has been disabled, or if the civilization razes the opponent's cities.

Domination

A player wins a Domination victory by controlling two thirds of the world's land and population. 66% of the world must be within the civilization's cultural borders, and 66% of the world's people must be within the civilization's cities. Exactly how the player achieves these two conditions is irrelevant and largely open-ended; any method of achieving the two conditions triggers the victory.

Cultural

By having a culture so powerful that its civilization controls the world through others' longing to be a part of it, a player can win a Cultural victory. The Cultural victory is achieved when either one city the player controls has 20,000 or more culture points, or if the entire civilization meets a certain threshold (100,000 on a Standard map) and has at least double that of any other culture. The latter is more difficult as it's unlikely that none of the other nations will have at least half of the player's total rating unless they have been weakened by war.

Diplomatic

By building the United Nations wonder, a civilization opens the possibility of a Diplomatic victory. The civilization that built it will be periodically offered the opportunity to hold elections for U.N. Secretary General. To be eligible for election, a civilization must control either 25% of the world's population or territory, although the civ that actually built the UN is always automatically a candidate. If there are no qualified candidates other than the one who built the UN, the civilization with the next highest population is put on the ballot. The civ with a majority of the possible votes wins the election, and therefore the game. Because the player's reputation matters a great deal to voting AI civilizations, it is of paramount importance to a player seeking a Diplomatic victory to maintain a trustworthy status throughout the game.

Spaceship

Just as in the previous two games, a civilization not seeking domination through world conquest can build and send a colony spaceship to Alpha Centauri to win the game. Unlike the previous two games, however, the player does not decide how many of several different types of components to build, but rather, builds ten specific spaceship parts ranging from Thrusters to the Stasis Chamber to the Interplanetary Party Lounge. The parts may be built in any order the player desires, but the player must first research the required technologies associated with each part. This method of victory favors a player with several powerful cities as the parts cost many shields to produce, and each city can only produce one at a time. One of the fictional ships called the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, one of the most famous fictional starships. ... Alpha Centauri (α Cen / α Centauri, also known as Rigil Kentaurus), is the brightest star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. ...

While the previous games had incorporated elements of speed and survival chance (a player could build fewer parts and thus launch sooner, although at increased risk of it not making it to Alpha Centauri), the game is won immediately once the colony ship is launched, the ultimate success of the colony either being assumed or irrelevant.

Histograph

The histograph provides a relative indicator of each civilization's score, power, and culture at any given time. When the game timer runs out (at the year 2050 AD by default, although this can be changed in Play The World) if no civilization has met any of the other victory conditions, each civilization's score at the end of each of the time periods (Ancient, Middle, Industrial, and Modern) is summed and then averaged. The highest final score wins the game. The player may continue the game beyond this point, but no additional score is counted.

Difference from Civilization II

Most game rules remain the same from Civilization II. Here are some major changes:

• Resources: The resources of Civ2 only increased local production, and did not affect happiness or production options.
• Ages: The tech tree of Civ3 was divided into ages, while the one in Civ 2 was continuous.
• Civilizations: Unique units and civilization traits. The civilizations of Civ2 were not unique except AI and artwork.
• Workers: Terrain improvement was done by Settlers in Civ2. Civ3 introduced Workers for this purpose.
• Diplomatic agreements: Civ3 has a bargaining table where leaders can work out diplomatic agreements.
• Forced labor: Under despotism and communism, the player can used forced labor - sacrificing citizens for production.
• Culture: The concept of Culture is new for the series.
• Caravans: The Caravan unit is out of Civ3.
• Diplomats and spies: Diplomat and Spy units are replaced by a menu system.
• National Wonders: One National Wonder can be built per civilization.
• War weariness: In Civ2, a leader trying to start war under Republic or Democracy could be overruled by the Senate. Civ3 has no Senate - instead war under these governments cause unhappiness.
• Visibility range: Units on high terrain can see further across low terrain.
• Combat:
  • Armies: Units can be grouped into armies.
  • Unit support: Units no longer have a home city. Instead they are supported by the national treasury.
  • Bombardment: Siege units no longer engage directly in combat, instead they bombard their targets. Ships can bombard coastal tiles.
  • Air missions: Aircraft perform one mission each turn, instead of moving step by step across the map.
  • Experience: Units winning a combat have a chance to increase their maximum hit points by one. The concept of "firepower" is disabled.
  • Upgrades: Units can be upgraded with money and proper resources.
  • Barbarians: In previous games, barbarian gangs contained a leader, who could be defeated for ransom. These are gone, instead barbarians are spawned at camps, which can be raided. Barbarians never capture cities.

Reception

The initial release of the game had some bugs and glitches. Some players complained that gameplay was poor for various reasons. Some criticized Civilization III for its lack of features which were found in other Civilization-like games, most notably Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC). Some of the features that SMAC had but were not carried forward included elevation, a working UN system, a social engineering system and a 'group movement' command to simplify managing units on the map. A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working as intended, or produces an incorrect result. ... “SMAC” redirects here. ... Social engineering is a concept in political science that refers to efforts to systematically manage popular attitudes and social behavior on a large scale, whether by governments or private groups. ...

The first patch came very soon after its initial release and other patches were released subsequently, improving gameplay significantly. The patches also managed to add in certain features, such as the aforementioned group movement command. In computing, a patch is a small piece of software designed to update or fix problems with a computer program or its supporting data. ...

The Play the World expansion included many features fans wished to have included in the original game, including multiplayer gaming and new gaming scenarios. The multiplayer mode had significant problems and most users were never able to get it to work without the later patch released for it. Most complaints about features that were added later, however, are countered by the fact that including all the bug fixes and features that were included later would mean the game's release would be delayed by months, if not years. Civ III, like many games, exemplifies the dilemma of game developers who must balance an early release of the game with a more polished product.

The Conquests expansion contains everything found in Play the World, but adds a few more new civilizations, gameplay elements, units, editor functions and scenarios.

Overall, the reaction to Civilization III has been very positive. It has won many "Game of the Year" and "Strategy Game of the Year" awards and continues to win new fans, even after Civilization IV was released. Sid Meiers Civilization IV (Civilization IV or Civ4) is a turn-based strategy computer game released in 2005 and developed by lead designer Soren Johnson under the direction of Sid Meier and Meiers studio Firaxis Games. ...

Expansions

In this screenshot, the player has won the game.

Two expansion sets have been published for Civilization III: Play the World, and Conquests. Play the World adds multiplayer capabilities, and it adds eight new civilizations and some new units to the original release. Conquests also offers nine historical playable scenarios, ranging from Mesopotamia to WWII in the Pacific. Many of these scenarios have resources, improvements, wonders, music, and even government types that are specific to the scenario, especially the Mesoamerican and Sengoku Japan campaigns. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1021x767, 355 KB) Summary Civilization III screenshot Licensing This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the company that developed the game. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1021x767, 355 KB) Summary Civilization III screenshot Licensing This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the company that developed the game. ... Civilization III: Play the World, released in 2002, is the first expansion pack for Sid Meiers award winning Civilization III. Play the World not only brings back civilizations from the original game, but there is also a new multiplayer feature and new game modes including elimination, regicide, and capture... Civilization III: Conquests is the second and final expansion for the award-winning and best-selling computer game Sid Meiers Civilization III. It was published in 2003. ... Online gaming redirects here. ... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Pacific redirects here. ... This article is about the culture area. ... “Sengoku” redirects here. ...

The latest stand-alone version is Civilization III: Complete, which includes the two expansions and several patches. (This version came after Civilization III: Gold Edition and Civilization III: Game of the Year Edition.)

Mods

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Some fans turned to "mods" ("modifications" of the original game), to add features they would have liked to see in the original release. Five popular ones are the Double Your Pleasure mod (DYP), Rise and Rule mod (RaR), Rhye's of Civilization (ROC), Age of Imperialism (AoI), and The Cold War (TCW) which double nearly all elements of the original game in quantity: technologies, civilizations, units. Although the first mods were created for "Vanilla" Civilization III (that is, the unexpanded original), the best mods have been made for Conquests. This is because the Editor that came with Conquests was a considerable improvement over the earlier ones, with many more functions that allowed more imaginative mods and scenarios to be created. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Several themed mods have also sprung up, focusing on one period of time or fiction, such as The Cold War, which focuses on The Cold War between 1950-1991. Other examples include The Ancient Mediterranean mod (TAM) and, more recently, Anno Domini, (AD) which offers a four-era random-map game similar to the standard but covers only antiquity and the Middle Ages. The newest of these mods appear to be the Medieval European Mod II (MEMII), which is actually a remake of an old mod for Play the World. In addition to these mods, there are fan-made scenarios, which are similar to the conquest games that come with Conquests: they are played on relatively small maps, focusing on relatively short periods of time, and often offer a far more detailed dramatization of history. Popular examples include the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (RFRE), the Rood and the Dragon (set in Anglo-Saxon Britain), and the Rise and Fall of the Mughals (set in early modern India).

Since the Play the World expansion, mods can be installed without actually modifying the original game. Fan websites such as Civfanatics, Apolyton, Civ3 Maps and Mods, or Evolution Games offer the platform for developing and distributing mods in a way that few games have seen to date. In addition to the mods themselves, these sites also make available hundreds of fan-made military units, building graphics, terrain, and other artwork intended to be incorporated into mods. As a result, some mods can offer an immersive experience in a particular period of history by using far more specialized art than that provided with the game itself.

Critics' scores

• GameSpot 9.2/10 [1]
• IGN 9.3/10 [2]
• Game-Revolution A- [3]^[1]

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Cultural references

Civilization III carries on the Civilization series' tradition of making numerous references to popular culture in the game. Many of these references are to the singer Elvis Presley, who has had some form of appearance in every Civilization title, and makes at least two appearances in this game. In the original version of the game, the closing credits display a picture of an Elvis lookalike. Playing the expansions on Elvis's birthday (January 8) will turn the ruler unit in regicide games into a representation of him.^[2] “Elvis” redirects here. ...

The default names of certain cities in the game are also subtle nods to cultural phenomena. The Ottoman city "Not Constantinople", and the Byzantine city "Not Istanbul" are references to the song Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by the band The Four Lads. The Japanese city "Neo-Tokyo" is a reference to the anime film Akira. Other city names pay tribute to websites dedicated to the Civilizations series including the Civilization Fanatics Center and the Apolyton Civilization Site.^[2] Allusions to popular culture are not limited to city names; references to musicians, movies, and people are made throughout the game. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is a swing-style song, written by Jimmy Kennedy and Nat Simon. ... The Four Lads, in a 50s nostalgia concert which aired on PBS. The Four Lads were a singing group. ... “Animé” redirects here. ... Akira ) is a 1988 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. ...

See also

• Firaxis
• Sid Meier

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External links

• Official Civilization III website
• CivFanatics Civilization Forums
• A list of fansites hosted on the official site
• A large Civilization website for and by fans
• Apolyton Civilization Site
• Civilized Online Gaming Community
• Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame
• Sid Meier's CHR Civilization (complete rewrite of the rules of the said boardgame to make it more similar to the PC game)
• CivUnited fansite

References

1. ^ Squire, Kurt; Constance Steinkuehler (2005-04-15). Meet the Gamers (English). LibraryJournal.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-28.
2. ^ ^{a b} Civilization III: Easter Eggs (2005-08-13). Retrieved on 2006-09-07.