Both span thousands of years of human history and centre around building a powerful and prosperous nation. If you haven't guessed yet, I'm talking about Empire Earth and Civilization III. It's a somewhat overlooked fact, but while we've all been busy crowbarring our eyes back into our sockets after marvelling at the next generation of FPSs, two behemoth strategy games have been heading for a confrontation of truly epic proportions over the next couple of months. Thankfully, Civ 3 is a game that is not trying to get by on its looks. However, the whole game is not exactly what you would call easy on the eyes if I am being brutally honest. The historical figures are cool and I like how you can zoom in and out of the map. Civilization 3 is a game that does show its age in terms of the presentation. They have released a newer version on Steam, but even so. I do have to state that as I write this the game is the better part of 20 years old. I always like to pick England for some reason, but it is worth changing things up If you play through the game multiple times as there are differences depending on where you start.

It is up to you where your civilization will start, but the game does give you a fair few choices such as America, England, Germany, and so on. The thing is, it never gets old and that is certainly the case here too. It is a goal that is pretty much standard in all the Civilization games along with many other games of this style. As is the case with all the games in the series, your goal in Civilization 3 is to rise from the stone age all the way up to the modern age.

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