As for all of the gripes and (somewhat infantile) comments I have read here, I can only say that if your idea of an empire-building game means building 10 huts in a field and then clicking and dragging your units to send the off into some click-fest battle a la Warcraft or Age of Empires, then maybe this is a little out of your realm of interest. As for comparisons against Civ: Call to Power, what are you people on? I bought that piece of crud and have never been so disappointed in my life. Sure, there were a couple of neat ideas, but the end result left me feeling a little empty... Although you can stack units and use them as one entire army, the pacing of the game is so off that it's virtually impossible to keep up with eras... I always ended up with a number of different eras of units combined into one... not really much of an effect on the gameplay, just poorly conceived. The basic problem tho is Call to Power just isn't that much fun to play... and I never experienced that "Just one more turn" syndrome that Civ fans knows all to well. This is a complex game for grown-ups (and some very bright kids)... not mindless tedium with some loud explosions.

I'm revising my initial review, which I wrote shortly after purchasing the game many months ago. Having played the game a while now, and having gotten used to the ins-and-outs, peculiarities and idiosyncracies, I've found that I like the game a lot more than I did at first. I began playing Civ entrenched with a strategic orthodoxy inherited from months (years) of playing its predecessor, SMAC. While Civ3 might at first seem like the same engine with a couple new features, it eventually becomes clear that those features fundamentally change how the game is played. In a good way. Having (finally) learned how to play the game, it has become clear that most of the gripers just don't understand Civ3. They are finding that the strategies they employed in SMAC and Civ2 with great success are terrible flops in Civ3. I know this because I was one of the gripers, and I had the same experience. In sum, Civ3 is a great game. Another reviewer referred to the "ah-ha factor", that precious little buzz you get when you figure out what you are doing wrong, and make a change that pays big dividends. I love the "ah-ha factor". Civ3 will provide you with your "ah-ha's".

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