Maybe it’s because it was the first one I played, but something about the 2d aspect of this game gripped me. I don’t have the same love for the games that came after it, the 3d graphics somehow take me out of the historical element.
The fact that in the older games you are basically playing on a map, gives off this almost board-game feeling that is cosy and immersive. (I know that civ was inspired by a board game)
Playing civ3 as a kid really made me feel like I was in whatever era I was playing at. Still remember those jazz fusion tracks especially.
I remember playing against several computer players on a huge map. I can’t remember who I was playing as. Probably either Britain or America. But I remember Gandhi approached me as an ally early on. He then pulled me into conflicts with all the other civilizations (damn, that NPC was bloodthirsty!), and together we fought and destroyed each of the other NPCs.
I over-extended myself a bit far on the last of those opponents, and he decided that was the perfect time to attack me. I knew he would at some point, since it’s part of the game. But I was so angry at the timing of that betrayal.
I fended off the Indian civilization’s attacks, and carefully rebuilt my resources. When I was clearly stronger than him I attacked, and hit him hard. As I ground his forces down more and more he kept pleading for a surrender. But I kept refusing.
I basically got him down to one pitifully small city that was pinned on and had no real defenses, and then played with them like a cat with a mouse. I held out on destroying them for ages, just so he could be as miserable as possible for as long as possible. Yeah, I know it was just a dumb NPC that couldn’t feel anything really, but it was still very satisfying.
I still have the ~300pg instruction book for it on my shelf. Still the only game instructions I’ve read cover to cover.
It had a lot more detail than I’d ever seen in a game booklet before.
Great game, and the last civ game I felt like I fully understood (even if I wasn’t great at it).
Oh. And I remember my automated workers paving the entire world into roads by mid game.
This was my first entry into the series after playing Civ Rev ps3.
I loved using the infinate money/steal cities exploit before it was patched. I would spend hours letting countries built up against me, only to use that glitch to build ICBM and nuke to high heavens.
The soundtrack was great too! I loved the acient theme. I had a lor of the ost on my mp3 player.
I doubt it runs on linux. Last time I tried 15 years ago, it ran but everything was black and the mouse wouldn’t capture within the game window.
I doubt it runs on linux. Last time I tried 15 years ago, it ran but everything was black and the mouse wouldn’t capture within the game window.
Civ Revolution is not available for PC. So did you try a different Civ game on Linux? If you want play the PS3 version again and have a powerful machine, then emulating PS3 with RPCS3 is an option. The compatibility rating for the game on the emulator is rated as Playable.
EDIT: Oh you was talking about Civ3! Looks like I can’t read, sorry. Well Looking at recent ProtonDB user reports, looks like Civ3 is playable on Linux. But its not perfect, reports say without music and you need to install C3X. I personally have no experience, so cannot assist further.
I’m still playing Civ 3 as of this week. Mostly a mod, CCM, now.
I remember seeing resources on the map, hating how arbitrary they felt, and then grew to love macemen as midgame doomstacks that justified any war for iron in the early game.
Civ3 helped me understand and justify my early wars for any nation, not just the Mongols and Zulu.
Civ and Call To Power had some banging soundtracks.
I kept putting it on the shelf at the electronics store I worked at.
people took it off. I put it on. rinse. repeat.
