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  • I would always start a war when this music started playing because it would make me feel like my armies were invinceable.Until one of those damn spearman would kill one of my modern armor tanks!

  • i would love an at least DECENT soundtrack in civ V, you know...almost every music from civ III is EPIC

  • Aw gosh, i can't get that little *sparkle* sound you hear whenever you look at an important menu out of my head O_o i hear it everywhere.

  • Every time I hear the first few seconds of this song I immediately hear the song "Demolition" from Command & Conquer. If you don't know the song, search for "command and conquer demolition", it's the first response.

  • @ECH0FOXTROT

    somewhat sounds like it, but reminds me more of the oriental industrial theme

  • Why does this sound so familiar? I never actually played Civ3 into the modern era, but somehow I already knew this song.

  • @shimazu32 I always figured it sounded a little bit like the end of Stairway to Heaven, but I'm a complete Zephead so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

  • thats what i call a real 70^s classic porn music :)

    and hell yea nuclear weapons are for fun!

    that are my feelings when hearing this track :)

  • What the video just needs is a gigantic sign that says: ''SCIENCE!''

  • @franciscomercado130 Puedes comentar en español.. ;) Pero creo que debe haber el video que estas buscando...

  • This music always makes me start wars

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  • @cromerzone this song defined my childhood and subliminally influenced my musical tastes from its 1000+ listens haha

  • this song matches that helicopter picture in the beginning so well. I imagine this song playing in a movie while a group of helicopters are flying over the sunset to a destination where they are to deploy troops somewhere in a South American jungle.

  • Haha... Good times... Random war, Nuclear Fallout, the works. when you reach this era, it certainly feels like you've really reached the modern era. XD

  • The Chinese refuse to acknowledge our envoy! *advisor madface*

  • @jedihunter176 HAHAHA! YES!

    I miss that Advisor's reaction.

  • @roosterflu77 yea... modern era rox

  • Ah how I remember this theme as I Nuked England out of existence on Regicide

  • @Bren4Blox Only a fantasy

  • It reminds me of Joe Satriani soooooo much :D

  • what a guitar solo! 

  • @KOmaSHOOTER Just a little ditty I cooked up for fun! Glad you like it. Cromerzone

  • I love The modern age and i sure as hell love this one

  • Aah, I remember steamrolling Bismarck on this soundtrack :)

  • The guy who wrote this is my Music Composition professor. BE JEALOUS.

  • @jonbashjonbash No kidding! Have we met before? ;)

  • @cromerzone1 Actually, I just realized that two people did the music for this game, so it very well may not be the guy that wrote this song. D'OH. But in any case, Roger Briggs is my composition instructor.

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  • @jonbashjonbash Roger did write about 3/4 of the music in Civ III....but not this one!

    Roger is an awesome composer and a wonderful man! That is really cool that you are studying composition with him. Say hi for me!

    Cromerzone

  • @jonbashjonbash Very cool! Roger wrote about 3/4 of the music for Civ III...but not this one! ;)

    Roger is an awesome composer and a wonderful man! You are fortunate to be studying with him.

    Say hi for me!

    Cromerzone

  • @cromerzone1 Will do, good sir! And an excellent piece of music you have written here, by the way. :D

  • Triple wow! I didn't know until last week that these videos were posted. I wrote and performed these song while working at Firaxis. I never knew that folks still listen to these songs. It makes my day! Thanks! Cromerzone

  • @cromerzone

    Really? you wrote this music? It's very nice

  • @wlckdfyd

    I did.  I worked at Firaxis from 2000 till 2008.

    I've been working at Big Huge Games since then.

  • @cromerzone +10 Thumbs up for you!

  • @andreshawk13 we love this music!

  • @cromerzone I hope I didn't offend you with my rendition of the songs. I tell you it was a lot of work trying to get the parts all by ear. If i could write tabs I'd post some, but unfortunately I have no the patience or the skill to do that. So I trained my ears :)

    By the way, the fact that you even noticed a nobody like me and commented, I am greatly honored, you have no idea. I bet you had a TON of fun working for them writing this fantastic music.

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  • @drfrozenfire No offense. For me, this is the ultimate complement. It shows that my music has had an impact on you, and for me it means I succeeded in my task as a composer. I have the best job in the world, but as a staff composer, I often have to do the bidding of others, which can make my job difficult sometimes. The fact that this song has struck a “chord” with you and others really is the best complement of all! Thanks again!

  • @cromerzone Are you kidding? I grew up with this game and still love its soundtrack!

  • @cromerzone wow... this was my fav music in all of Civ III. When it suddenly popped up when it switched to modern age i was like wow.

  • @Shingobeans Yeah this is awesome modern/near-future music

  • @cromerzone If you  aren't lying, you are one of the best musical artists i know, bro!

  • @rrroba Thank you kind peoples. You can hear more on my space at cromerzone1.

  • @cromerzone i will!

  • @cromerzone Dude, we all love the game music! Civ 3 has way better music than Civ 4! *applauds loudly*

  • @cromerzone civ IV by comparison is such crap musicwise that i actually had to look this up to give myself a reminder that i wasn't wrong............... especially the early themes

  • @DeliciousPoop I kind of resent the whole "civ IV music is crap" comment considering its soundtrack is composed, from the Classical period onward, from songs composed by some of the great master composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, etc. Not trying to say Civ III has a bad soundtrack, because it doesn't, and I love it, but get some taste man.

  • @Nagoragama you can resent all you want, i'm right..... civ IV was an insult to the civ III soundtrack.......... funny you should see this comment today because an hour ago i just tried to install civ IV back on my computer and it no longer runs..... i guess the game is behind the current technology

  • @Nagoragama you can resent all you want, i'm right..... civ IV was an insult to the civ III soundtrack.......... funny I should see this comment today because an hour ago i just tried to install civ IV back on my computer and it no longer runs..... i guess the game is behind the current technology

  • @Nagoragama

    well its the taste of western classical music, if you hate it, you'll hate the civ4 soundtrack

    personally i love the sound track of both, but i perfer civ 3 slightly over civ4, only cuz its more oriental, something becoming less common now a days

  • @cromerzone we love you

  • @LiamSkimac You're too kind! Thanks for listening.

  • @cromerzone

    Yeh man, IDK if you want to hear this, but CIV 3 was the first game I actually got into so much to the point where it changed my actual view on the world. I remember how much fun I had, absolutely fantastic! Im having a bit of a...dejavu here lolz.

  • @m1up I always like hearing how much our games have had an impact on players.....as long as it's positive!

    Glad you've enjoyed it! Cromerzone

  • @cromerzone1

    Yeah man, it actually has had a very significant impact on my life, because when I played it I was young, only about 10. I learned so much from it, its an absolutely astounding game. I just opened up Civ 4 after not playing a civ game since 2003, and im getting the same feeling I had back in 03.

    This game is a testament to our times.

  • @cromerzone if possible could you upload a video of yourself playing this live pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease?!? i love this song.

  • @mailliwenots Video! Live! I recorded this about 10 years ago. I'd have to re-learn the thing just to play it again. I'm really pleased that people here like what I've done though. Makes a guy happy! You can check out some of my game stuff at myspace.com/cromerzone1.

  • @cromerzone1 Hey! You have to re-learn this.. I wanna hear a live video too.. ;)

  • @cromerzone You are fucking awesome, my friend.

  • @cromerzone Your just plain awesome!

    Thanks for the memories

  • @cromerzone music in civ 3 was the best for the series in my opinion

  • @adeskiman Definitely. That's something I hated about Civ 4 -- aside from the title screen there was no good music, so I was forced to use my iTunes library or just watch TV.

  • @okamiyazaki Agreed. This song kills the shit outta anything Civ IV has. Civ IV is all about Baba Yetu and that's about it and that shouldn't really count cuz that's just the intro song, all the rest of the songs suck ass..infact one of em (one of the Ancient I believe) is a direct rip of Civ III's song lol.fail.

  • @operations1000 Wait, actually? Civ III's were awesome but Civ IV had Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Dvorak... They aren't even in the same LEAGUE. Civ IV had far and away the best soundtrack of any Civ game because it used period pieces written by some of the greatest musical geniuses to ever live. Though I guess the modern stuff was a bit inaccessible. All IV's Ancient music is from III because (surprise) we haven't got any surviving music from that time period and people didn't like the silence.

  • @okamiyazaki

    civ 5 is better, but not as good as 3

  • @adeskiman Personally, i think 5 was a bit of a disappointment. For me i liked the three the best, then four, then five.

  • @xXL337H4X0RZXx Yeah I agree with you. Five, imo, lacked the spirit and depth of it's predecessors.

  • @TechPriest89 Lol I take that back, Call to Power was the most legit (and kind of wack) The space and underwater cities were funny and that vehicle that blew up cities (the eco one) Although there were so many wrong things with that game lol :) I understand though why they had to switch some things up with civ 5 They tried to undo stacking and put some strategy into fighting, but it wasn't too enjoyable playing it (as a whole). The built in scenerios on civ 3 were the best!

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  • @cromerzone Well it's good music:P

  • Triple wow! I didn't know until last week that these videos were posted. I wrote and performed these song while working at Firaxis. I never knew that folks still listen to these songs. It makes my day! Thanks! Cromerzone

  • @cromerzone Wow! Great work, man ;)

  • Reminds me of the Terran themes.

  • *clicks replay*

  • One of my few problems with Civilization 3, though, was its sheer difficulty. It was either very, very easy or extremely hard, not much of anything in between.

  • You see the helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, stealth bombers, nuclear subs, right? Ok, ok...

    so WHY ARE THERE STILL BARBARIANS with Stone Age weaponry in modern times???

  • @Agent1W Maybe they are the lost tribes... =P

  • @andreshawk13 I'm not going to come at you in combat wearing animal skins with a stone-crafted axe if you're adorned with Kevlar and armed with a M16!!! Now that's just stupid!

  • @Agent1W Hahaha, that's not my fault, ask that to sid meier.... xD!

  • @Agent1W Oh, I was forgetting, you have not watched the scene from''avatar'' in which helicopters destroy the natives?

  • @andreshawk13 Right, it's all about the tech bases. What would the natives had that could POSSIBLY damage a helicopter? You would have to give them rocket launchers and missile platforms! In RL, a few hundred Spanish wiped out thousands of Central American natives with their tech.

    Sid Meier did fix the combat system in the sequel. In order for the fights to be realistic, you have to pair two combat units that have comparable strength values. I

  • @Agent1W We can only hope to go on sale on civilization V, so we can criticize a current game, not a game ten years ago ... ^ ^

    PD: I was watching your channel, you like GTA III, that's good .... xD!

  • @andreshawk13 Sid overall did a great job overall with Civ 3. Well rounded.

    Yeah, GTA III was my first PS2 title. I moved from the N64-PS1-Sega Saturn generation and was duly impressed with that game.

  • @Agent1W No, a few hundred spaniards, and a few 10k of their native rebel allies wiped out thousands of central americans. Not to mention the diseases brought by them decimated the native american nations they were fighting.

  • @Agent1W Seems like you've never heard of the Zulu either. They won battles of hundreds of British musketeers vs. their brute melee force.

  • @Holygiant Disciplined melee force against early firearms is understandable, but not fully automatic machine guns and assault rifles!

  • @Agent1W - football fans?

  • The best strategy game of all time. I kind of like this one more than 4, but 4 is awesome too.

  • Civ 3 had the best music ;)

  • Is this on spotify? link?

  • I remember going through my HDD after playing game once [actually i think i stopped game saying to myself: Oh I gotta have that on CD] and getting to this music and taking it out of CIV directory and into music folder and burning it to CD. It has always reminded my ALOT of Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin jazz.

  • Ahh the days...

  • I thought this was called "Stars Full"? doesn't matter, it should be called "awesome"

  • @kingocarina "Stars" (or "Stars Full", I don't really know which one is more accurate) is the other awesome (imho) civ 3 modern era music... the very relaxing one (the one resembling much of an adult movie soundtrack :) )

  • This game fucking ruled. I remember playing through an entire game in a day. I played for like 8 hours.

  • I am now in the process of recording all the parts to this song. Check it out when it's done on my channel!

    the hardest part by far has been the drums, cuz I have to digitally create them.

    Everything else is actually an instrument played by me :)

  • @drfrozenfire can you please tab it for guitar to

  • @MrWizz1234567890

    I don't know how to create tabs :(

    But I am almost finished recording it, and I'm thinkin of makin a video tutorial for it as well

  • @drfrozenfire to tab a guitar song, you just make 6 lines (representing the six strings) and write the fret number on the string that the fret is played. i know im bad at explaining it, so you could also look it up online.

  • @MrWizz1234567890

    The song I recorded is up, go to my channel

    I'm going to make a tutorial video as soon as I can

  • This Game Is Highly Addictive

  • omfg, the title is smash, and you ask what's the name of the song.

  • I used to play entire games of Civ III lasting hours and stretching over weeks just to get to the awesome Modern Era music. Now that it's on YouTube, that seems a little futile.

  • can someone please tab this!

  • where did you get the posters?

  • Name of the song¿? Anybody knows...

  • Smash....

  • @andreshawk13 hahaha lmfao

  • @miquel9028 Well durr

  • Am playing pacific WW now, amphibious war is something I like!

  • I seem to recall playing the DOS version before any console ports were around :)

  • Civ 3 was ownage.

  • @operations1000 Wow lots of noobs I guess, pity.

  • Fuckin epic!

  • this was really good game played it alot ..beat everything on hardest and largest map...it can take a while to populate whole map best with maxed cities to get higest score..

    but this music is like orgasm..so good jam... brings good memories ..

  • Hahaha yeah man.... XD! orgasmic... =P

  • lol idk but anywais this game is great

  • how the heck is there 1 month ago... then all these hours ago comments? lol

  • @Freakattaker Civ 3 is an addicting game...Those who loved it nearly 7 years ago STILL LOVE it now....Like me :)

  • @sesilu33 I'd play it but I don't have the game after all this time now.. CD's lost rofl

  • I am in the middle of another play-through of Civ3 and just progressed to the modern times. I always put my science funding up to 90% and forget about the gold (I'm at like -390 a turn) and end up being in modern times while everybody else is still feudal or industrial.

    in fact i think I'm gonna go beat the crap out of Montezuma's bitchass swordsmen right now

  • holy shit do u play in chieftian???

  • usually yeah. i occasionally do regent or monarch if I'm looking for a challenge, but it's so fun dominating on chieftan.

    emperor and deity are just ridiculous so I don't even try.

  • esta en español?

    y yo tomando clases de ingles!

    jajajajaj

  • El juego original esta en ingles pero puedes descargar un archivo el cual traducirá el juego completo y pesa menos de 3 megas...

  • This is my 2nd favorite civ3 piece of music

  • This song is so uh.. modern time fitting!

  • Top Civ 3 song

  • I really want the music sheets for this song...

  • i'm learing it by ear. the main lick, is just a doing jazz scale down

  • Heh, I loved Civ 3, the only problem was the messed up spearman beats modernarmor scenario

  • ¿? why men?? i love this music

  • haha oh i like it, its just it used to play over and over ond over, and then it used to annoy me, i really want to play the game now but its broken

  • That's it! I'm ending our mutual protection pact! And say "bye bye" to your coal and dye imports!

  • hahaha, dude noooo not my coal!! haha good one

  • haha dude i dont ever remember what i said hahaha

  • Heh heh. Fun times.

  • you ass**** I'm taking away your hit musicals!

  • i think civ 4 was to appeal to the masses not the fans and to me this game is more fast paced when it needs to be overall if you just want to play a game and relax play civ 4 if your a hard core gamer play civ 3

  • civ3 was way to easy, once you got past the threshold, it got boring leading 250 tanks into a city guarded by 2 infantry and some catapults

  • On the other hand, you couldn't use nuclear weapons without getting bumrushed, something the AI never had to worry about...

  • Damn, I rated you thumbs down by accident. Soz bout that. But I do believe what you said. 'bout 3 years ago I bought Civ 3 as a natural transition from Civ 2 and naturally got my ass handed to me constantly. I am slightly getting better now though [on warlord difficulty; not sure my sanity would survive greater difficulty levels ^^]. But I hear ya buddy, civ 3 is hardcore...even on warlord! :D

  • I know what you mean. I'd rather not find out how insanely hard some of the higher difficulty levels must be...

  • Civ 3 had some amazing music! this and that other sick modern era fusion jam.

    Civ4 music....meh.....

  • What I don't like about Civ 4 is that it's not as "big" as Civ 3.

    In Civ 3 I often built an army of +100 Modern armors.

    In Civ4, no more than +60

    You could also build more cities in CIv 3, and the maps were bigger.

  • You are absolutely right

  • Thats why I don't have Civ4...To big of Modernized gaming now. CIV3, is the only game you truely could totally rule the world.

  • The "rock" song of Civ 3!

  • The song's just called Smash, not Smash Full, the "Full" in the file name is to denote that the mp3 has the full song, thus why all of them end in full.

  • Yeah man u right, the title has changed now...

  • This game was so hard, I always played on Chieftain mode and still got my ass handed to me, the other civs always advanced to Medieval times leaving me in Anicent Times, and every time I declared war on someone they sent one unit into my territory that no matter what I sent at it it wouldn't die, and the unit would just keep leveling up. I don't know maybe I wasn't smart enough for this game.

  • I can manage with the second difficulty and my brother can almost take on the hardest

  • Well, I was like 12 the last time I played Civ3 so I guess it makes sense that I was a very unstrategic 12-year-old.

  • brings back memories =)

    thanks!!

  • civ3 had godlike music compared to civ4 :D

    this song and that one specific ancient times tune were the best in my opinion.

  • I can play this peace of music on my guitar. Thfis is so awesome

  • could you plz plz plz plz tab it out??? this song is epic

  • this should be on guitar hero 3

    i love civ 3 and 4

    i tried 2 and 1 but i didn't really like them

    they were awesome games but i like having animations to my attacks and battles and stuff

  • Civ 1 and Civ 2 were created in the early 90s (Civ 1 only 1991!) and believe it or not these were the cutting edge graphics back then.

    Back then we didn't even know we could hope for the graphics you get now.

  • i already knew that dude lol

  • I can't think of any better Civ 3 music. Honestly.

  • I like the Mid Evil music, and theres another Modern one I like. But ya. Mid Evil ones, gave you a sense of awesomeness.

  • i usually stop playing for a while and pretend i play my electric guitar when i hear this song...

    IT'S JUST SO AWESOME.

  • Haha nice one!! i do exactly the same thing! this solo is awesome

  • I hate civ4's modern era music, it's just so boring and repetitive. I always couldn't wait to get to the modern era in civ3 because the music was so awesome. Wish they had done some jazz/rock tunes for Civ4 as well.

  • civ 4 music sucks so bad... i have it to where i play civ 3 music during civ 4 gameplay!

  • sounds like toto

  • sounds so much like joe satriani

    great music

  • This NEEDS to be released for Rockband or GHWT. That would be awesome.

  • The Civ3 soundtrack was so much better than that of Civ4... is there any way to put the Civ3 tunes into Civ4?

  • Where did you get all the Civ3 images from? o.O

  • main menu = polish civilization site

    rest = google!