Civilization 3: Educational Review

[Wailot6]

hI HATE CIV 5 it's so stupid they have been dumbing down the game!! it's sick..! the combat improvements are very nice though, but everything else is totalygay!

[willydadog]

Communism is a stateless, classless society where everything belongs to the community as a whole (not the government, as communism is a stateless society). Fascism is where police are used to control the people. Nations that have claimed to be communist have used police to control the people and take away their rights, but that is not what communism is.

[monkeymadness1011]

I am the same age as your son! I love civilization 3 too! It really has helped me learn, and I have had fun while playing it.

[Mrmorgancross]

how many eras aRE THERE IN THIS GAME



[Jusmar386]

I liked playing the mod with Fascism becuase it became a more controlable yet harder game but I never used the interment camps

[FuIIOfFaiI]

I'm was always a communist in Civ III. I forget why exactly, been awhile since I played it, I think it was so I could invade countries with little civil unrest.

[elitestar]

this is the most educational game ever made

[shadowinnothing]

@elitestar That is still awsome



[DGJerz]

Bren4Blox, I used CamStudio, on a very slow framerate (to save memory). CamStudio can produce a much less choppy cast, if you configure it right.

[Zackarco]

@DGJerz I tried playing Civ 3 today. Its hard to understand and hard to play too. But I was wondering, is it possible for you to post a tutorial for Civ 3? Thanks :D

P.S I subbed :)

[Bren4Blox]

What was used to record this?

[OshawaStateOfMind]

in civ 3 complete i usually start out on depotism then i star a early war in the game on a depoitism so that i dont have to pay for my units (so if it supports 4 units per city and i have 10 citys i can support 40 troops) then after that im in need of gold and upgrading my units so i switch to republic then i dont get envolved into to big of wars then in the middle ages i switch to democracy lets my gold go up into the 100 - 200 per turn with my tech still at 70 then i switch to facism to suppor

[clipmaster30001]

i remeber when this game first came out. was about 9 i was on this game for days without stopping

[kotn360]

Nice video. :)

[JigglesJingle]

**Pro Tips** Always build workers and settlers starting off - you'll need to expand fast and develop the terrain. Always aim for Democracy from the start, once you get that it'd be smooth sailing.

[JigglesJingle]

**Pro Tips** Always build workers and settlers starting off - you'll need to expand fast and develop the terrain. Always aim for Democracy from the start, once you get that it'd be smooth sailing.

[Neuromorphic0]

This kid is going to be very succesful when he's older. I watched my father play this as a child and he couldn't figure anything out for the life of him, but yet a 10 year old understands such a complicated game. Incredible.

[osufitchi]

I'd be failing world history if i didn't play this as a kid

[yahknowidontcare]

what have you learned about goverments by playing civ 3.......... kid: they all suck

[HardWarUK]

This is fantastic son, you are a genius! and Dad - well done!!!!!

[CollateralSmurf]

usually when i just want to get space race victory i put technology to 100% at the beginning and my nation becomes bankrupt.

[SerbianJudo]

Civ 2 and 3 are the best in series...

[FabiusMaximus96]

I found your son to be very literate. As a 14 year old who's been playing Civ3:C for years I liked the way he stated the differences between the governments, and how they affected gameplay and real life. I've been studying these(in real life and Civ3), but I would never be able to put it into words without see the person I was talking to like your son did.

[Swannypus]

weird

[Miguelsr1rst]

now its time for ya to enjoy civilization 5!!! i got the disk even though i need a new computer to play it :)

[XB360RUSHGamma]

how do i lose a lot of money if i have mines on most of the gold spots

[TheDoSMETA]

This kid remind's me of myself at the same age, with such titles as this and! age of empires ect, I learned so much from just playing games based on history and everything involved in games such as this.

[SG7Gaming]

I make great grades in history classes because of this game... however civ 3 wouldn't help me do homework.

[Magitia]

ure minimum money is 0 i just put 40 science 60 hapinness and im broke but it dosnt make u lose i dont think

[Bren4Blox]

@Magitia

Doesn't make you broke or anything. When you get to the Modern Age nations are loosing 200-1000 Gold AT LEAST for their armies.

[OshawaStateOfMind]

@Bren4Blox yea thats true and its odd because in the modern age some civs will pay 10 gold - 100 gold per turn for 1 tech so i usually get rich by getting advanced then selling techs then i go to a government that supports my army

[iEspionage]

I'm taking it that you are pretty much omnisicient with this game.

How can I get a download so I don't advance past the ancient era? I actually like playing in the ancient era -_- Then the wonderful Gun powder technology comes around and I move right up to Industrialization era -_-

[realwowmontage101]

Umm....

First off not that I think communism is good, this kid hasn't fully learned what communism is.

First off he is talking about the form of communism taken up by the Russian Bureaucracy. (aka the failed the form of communism)

I hate it when people take what they hear from propaganda and put it into play.

A form of "communism" that works is the form in Europe where indeed we call it socialism it follows the same principal.

[llTomlll]

This is completely dumb.

Learning government through a game? Ridiculous.

[Lihapullamies]

This is a great game.

But you should not take the descriptions of goverment types and all that so seriously. For example, anarchy. This game teaches that anarchy = disorder and chaos. That is wrong.

[31jalford]

you dont have to balance your research i nalaways have no gold lol because i put to much in science and have such huge armies and i put in entertaiment only when people get unhappy and start civil disoder and starvation just let it hapen put i do cut down jungle and communisms use soliders not cops to control people demoacarcys suck america should be more of a republic and you pronouced graineries wrong

[thedogatemyhomework8]

Love Civ3. Played this game ever since my aunt gave it to me as a birth day present when I was 8. I am still playing it to this very day, over 7 years after that event occurred. And yes, I agree, this game really has a bad habit of turning people's sleeping polarities upside down.

[Agent1W]

Yeah, the Civilopedia has very good comprehensive information, supported by fact.

My brother's favorite unit is the Modern Armor(which looks like an M1A1 Abrams MBT). My favorite unit was the Guerrilla(just because they look cool and I like their fighting animation).

[Vader19181]

This was the 4th strategy game I ever played, at 11.

Thus started my love of Strategy games.

[sebbeks]

Congratulations! Your son is very smart! If I may give some advice it is always good to keep more than one defender per city. I like a defensive and offensive mix to guard my cities, in case an enemy unit gets too close to my city I can counter it with an offensive unit (say a medieval infantry) before allowing it to attack my city. You should buy him the expansion packs for the game, it is a great game.

[ukchristian28]

@sebbeks

Yes, because the barbarians often attack in great numbers. If you don't have at least two spearmen you can get completely ransacked.

[rockgod20000]

i get to a point where you put science at 80 and happiness t 20 and still get 400 gpt

[ruffridah347]

woah, he has a lower voice than Justin Bieber......nice btw, i too learned more history in the Civilization and Total War games than I ever did in my 12 years of school

[jarvis15]

I played this as a kid, and still do every now and then. Other than the sleepless nights, this game contributes alot of positive things to the people who play it.

[dden5]

beautiful.

[DGJerz]

This is 12-year-old Peter typing, Daddy never told me to look at the game analytically.

I browsed the "civilopedia" happily for so long I got to know every part, so naturally I saw the descriptions of forms of government. I spent little time, in comparison, studying, than building, bullying, bribing, bombing, and behaving barbarically (hey, it's a great way to weaken rivals {never liked diplomatic victories]}, and I had fun all the while.

[XHourX]

give the kid a break, for a 10 year old he should be playing games for fun, not talking about politics

[DGJerz]

@XHourX P.S., Civ IV's nice, too.

[XHourX]

@DGJerz ? what has that got to do with my post?

[DGJerz]

@XHourX @XHourX That was my son, who is now 12, explaining that the politics of Civ III were part of the fun for him, since they affected how his armies performed in the parts of the game he enjoyed the most.

[HardWarUK]

Excellent review! :) 5/5

[PandM324]

When I get communism on a game I'm playing I switch right to it, boosts my production and I get super rich off of people, and they are happy too. In the game, communism to me is the best gov.

[7thNCtrooper2]

Remind me not to elect you to any political position, lol!

[gangstabanks88]

@PandM324 comunism 4 life hommie

[visionimagify]

Once you get the Pyramids, and this other structure, along with the Evolutionary thingy, you pretty much have the game.

[DGJerz]

Oops.. someone who posted a comment said I sounded like a fifteen-year-old.. I was trying to reply to that and accidentally hit "remove" instead. Sorry about that.

[GetDatSteak]

@DGJerz you dont haha

[odst121]

should i get civ 4 or civ 3?

[DGJerz]

We've had Civ 4 for several months now, and while my son (who is now 11) did play it a few times, it didn't capture his imagination the way Civ 3 did. Maybe Civ 3 just came along at the right time for him... your experience will be different.

[lifes40123]

your voice sounds like a 10 year old

[DGJerz]

Well, yes, that would be my 10-year-old son, the fifth-grader mentioned in the caption.

[doomsday800]

Well that sort of depends on what you want. Civ 3 is a very single player game and civ 4 is a very muiltiplayer game. So if your only going to play offline then i suggest you get civ 3. But if your strictly sticking to muitiplayer them get civ 4. Civ 3 nobody really plays anymore though. but still. And if you want a really short civ game. Then get civilization Revoulution but thats only if your a noob at these sort of games.

[lifes40123]

civ 3.

[xxjayfrostxx]

@odst121 civ 3

[chincherrinas]

Civ life lesson #1: scientists are great builders :)

[phillapphullper]

I played this as a child, no joke; kick started my love affair with history. Now I'm an A* student.

I owe a lot to this game. I was only 7.

[gman8744]

@phillapphullper same! because of civ, I love history!

[poopcritic]

way to steal my life...

[jasezer]

@phillapphullper Same here.

[XB360RUSHGamma]

@phillapphullper same here i love history and im an A student

[Bren4Blox]

@phillapphullper

you too?

[PhilClarke1080]

@phillapphullper Same here man. i was a similar age. and i got 5 As at a level and am at a prestigous university studying mathematics but still very keen on history.

[TheInternetGeek99]

@phillapphullper Yeah, me too, I have learned a lot of stuff from this game about history and several civilizations, I've got a lot more intrested on history

[therandomexample]

ikaros, you show a good point..but maybe they didn't show fascism and nazism in the game because it might offend some people...maybe they will...more likely they won't

P.S. if you were looking for the grecian son of dadaelus, his name was icharus

[BigOz22]

They Added the Facism Governement+Technology in Conquests.

[vichobreakthewall]

where u can get that type of government?

[gyrobotZ]

Industrial Age, once your political scientists learned Nationalism.choose between Communism or Fascism, Fascism gives you double the work rate of all workers but support wise, it is much more uneven compared to Communism (Even the smallest town in a communism run state will provide more military support then fascist run towns). Corruption is a bit more notable than Communism and in a Fascist state, Assimilation and conquest is MUCH more difficult due to discontent folks.

[ikaros2006]

the only problem in civ 3 is that they eliminated the fascism or the nazism from the goverments. They should have it. Hopefully some users created a patch and you can install this type of goverment meke the game more realistic.

[Rhino1115]

they have facism in complete, which is all the expansion packs put together so i'd assume that they would have it in the conquests expansion pack

[sunnyreds41]

no there is fascism

[Sinjin90]

well done, im going back to civ 3 from 4, 4 just dont have the same pazaz

[Filo011]

i agree it's a whole new game really i love civ 3 it's so much nicer

[dimadragon]

yea i was really disappointed in civ 4, civ 3 has more units and is more comlex

[mmnena05]

I agree with the complexity. I started with IV and was tempted to try III since I heard so many good things. I realized that III felt deeper, more strategic. It contains certain elements that are stripped in IV. Of course, the graphics in IV are quite amazing. I'm hoping they will combine the best of both worlds and come out with a V.....anyone know of one in production?

[iscrewy]

i want to see a part 2 XD