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Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: Rise to meet new challenges as you battle eight new Civilizations and Leaders in the exciting follow-up to the game that many consider the greatest of all time! With exciting new single player and multiplayer features and scenarios, Civilization III: Play the World pits you against the best Civilization players from all corners of the earth. With new online modes of play, the battle for the ultimate in bragging rights will be intense! Also included is a powerful Scenario Editor, giving you access to scenarios created by the thousands of members of the Civilization III: Play the World community. Play scenarios created by others, or build your own - replayability is now truly limitless with this new benchmark in strategy gaming! [Infogrames] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Negative: 3 out of 11
  1. 84
    There are plenty of changes that make the game different enough that it's a must have for any Civ fan(atic).
  2. This expansion adds a lot more clutter, but at least it's interesting clutter. Sadly it doesn't fix some of the aspects of the game still arguably broken.
  3. This game was just meant to be single-player. [Feb 2003, p.75]
  4. 45
    Not only vastly overpriced, it is unnecessary as a boxed title at all. A patch download from the official site would be more than sufficient to offer the majority of improvements Play the World offers.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 5 out of 10
  1. Ckdhahdfadsfads
    10
    This game is the best game ever! The multiplayer is awsome! So are the new tribes and I just love all the new scenerios! The guys who gave this game a 2 and a 3 are idoits and the ones who gave it zeros have no brains. This game does not have more crashes the a race car track but maybe your head does!



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  2. Jok`RdeMo
    8
    Well if Civ3 has 10 points for me, then PTW 8. Actually it is better than Civ3, but it has some bugs when play in network. And it does not crash so much. Especially if ya put all patches. Expand
  3. ChrisD.
    7
    Interesting.
  4. FUBAR
    3
    Love the new aspects, but crashes harder then my sex drive when drunk...

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