A Look Back at Civilization III (2001)

Love this game. Could we perhaps have a remaster? A Civ iii 2 perhaps??

My first Civ game, my dad introduced it to me when I was 6.

I liked the colony concept from Civ III

I still have my physical copy of Civ III (along side Civ II Test of Time) and they're still in good condition. They're retired games in my collection but they do hold good memories. Now Im in Civ VI on PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch and its great. I still got memories of playing Civ II and Aristotle's Pupil (Alexander's theme) song playing in the background as I played.

Corruption was the game's biggest flaw. It was too much even under lesser governments. You could buy courthouses but under monarchy, that would get you like one extra uncorrupted shield, etc.
One thing about the introduction of civilization traits and special units was that you had a good idea who the biggest threat will be. Iroquois and Celts are almost always a major threat. Mongols, while aggressive, are so culturally weak they never prosper for long. England might do well for bit, but often collapses. Their unique unit comes to late to do them any favors. Rome ironically seemed to be so-so civilization most games.
It was also, maybe the last CIV game where players had a certain risk taking advantage over the AI. The AI wouldn't risk ending a sea unit on a tile where it might sink. A human player could and maybe reach lands that the ship's normal movement range couldn't make it to safely.

Call to Power 2 😍

3 is my all time favorite Civ. Was such an improvement over 2. I spent hundreds of hours on the huge earth map. The box was also so amazing with all the leaders on it.

The soundtrack of this game is just one banger after another. The ancient era still has some of my favourite tracks from all of civ

my first and most favorite civ👍👍👍

This is where I started. I got the game out of a book order at school 😂

My first Civ game. Grabbed it out of the bargain bin at Best Buy when I was 10 😂

When you think about it, whilst the game had issues at launch, it was revolutionary for its time. It was the first game in the series to introduce borders, strategic resources and far more unique civilizations.

This one is my favorite. By far is so many ways. If there was ever a remastered version of it, I would pay whatever it took.

Videos like this needs to be much longer! Would love a 10-20 min episode of each game discussing their mechanics and development

The best

My first turn is here. It never stops since.

Best civ

Where is suede

Who else played on an iMac?

Good game... Kind of meh video...

5 days after last video. Civ 3 was released 5 years after civ 2.

Memories 🥰

Remember the Science Advisor with Sid's face? Remember when your units could walk on mountain tiles?

Still have it on disc, my favorite

this the game where I feel in loved with the human history

The problem with this series of Civ history is that the videos are too short! Loving it!! ❤❤

I have owned Civ III when my brother had bought this game back in 2001 from a pirated copy. Being addicted with the Civ game for 26 years, I've waited enough for VII to be released.

That’s so nostalgic. Civ III was my first introduction to the genre. It still has a special place in my heart

I still remember raging at this game after a fortified stone age spearman beat my attacking modern armor because it had a "dent" in its hp

No mention of Golden ages? I am surprised.

Ah back in the days of a fortified defense 2 spearman can destroy an elite 24 attack Modern Armour

Good times

Only Civ better than this is IV

Longer vids!!!
And please bring back the ability to put colonies on resources 🫡

I played from II to VI. To me, III is the best, the only that I still play.

Having played all from1 to 6, civ III is by far my favorite. I gave civ4 a chance but returned back to Civ3Conqiests pretty soon (partially because my hardware was not good enough, but not only because of that). Eventually civ5 came with new concepts and I left civ3 with few games and plans unfinished.... until recently it showed up with 95% discount on Steam and I bought it for my daughter. Few hours of helping her to understand the concepts of gameplay... and I installed it back on my laptop with intention to play it again during my vacation :)

CiV III & CIV 4 are the best CiV than modern CIV...

The best one so far, let's hope 7 can be the next.

Back when the AI attacked

Best in the series, sad to see it go downhill after IV

looking forward for VII

"Strategic resources unveiled" proceeds to show a luxury resource colony without a connecting road

Oh yeah. I have built and developed the town, bulit some forces, it's grown up. Suddenly it all renegades to opponent. Thank you. Fuck this chapter. Only the first two and the fifth are quite useful for brains and soul, the others are timewasting

Still my favourite game. CIV3!

My Civ. I played it end to endlessly for a year.

There were more features introduced than this. This is all you highlighted?

The only version of Civ I've never played.

One of the toughest strategy titles I’ve ever played so I will always remember that time I won as Suleiman!

Can you still Play Civ 3 on a new Computer? Just by buying it from Steam?

Personally, CIV2 is my favourite!