My Dad thinks that games are a waste of time and that one can have much more fun and growth from reading Thackery or Trollope. That being said, he must have put in several thousand hours into this game since he bought it for me around my 6th-odd birthday in 2001. Our primay form of bonding is talking Civ strategy.

He has no interest in 4, 5, BE or anything like that. Says they're not interesting like this one is. I'm inclined to agree. I think that Civ 3 is the essence of 4X, and that any designer wanting to know what makes 4x games great, should play this obsessively. There are a few things here and there that I think could have been expanded on- such as plague- and the fact that some civilizations simply have uninspired Unique Units with bland mechanics. Nevertheless, one of my favourite games ever. Now that Civ 6 is happening, I do hope that Meier et al look back to this one, for inspiration, on how a truly grand 4X should be.

My Dad thinks that games are a waste of time and that one can have much more fun and growth from reading Thackery or Trollope. That being said, he must have put in several thousand hours into this game since he bought it for me around my 6th-odd birthday in 2001. Our primay form of bonding is talking Civ strategy. He has no interest in 4, 5, BE or anything like that. Says they're not interesting like this one is. I'm inclined to agree. I think that Civ 3 is the essence of 4X, and that any designer wanting to know what makes 4x games great, should play this obsessively. There are a few things here and there that I think could have been expanded on- such as plague- and the fact that some civilizations simply have uninspired Unique Units with bland mechanics. Nevertheless, one of my favourite games ever. Now that Civ 6 is happening, I do hope that Meier et al look back to this one, for inspiration, on how a truly grand 4X should be.