Quote Originally Posted by screwtype
I bought a budget version of CivIII, and found it too hard (the corruption thing really sucks). Then I got a budget version of Conquests, Conquests is the best version of the game IMO.

But although some aspects of the game are fun, especially the early period of the game when you are just exploring and building up a handful of cities, over time there is just too much micromanagement, especially of workers. And the combat system - one unit attacking at a time, is really tedious, especially when it's the AI attacking other AI factions. You have to wait longer and longer between turns for the AI factions to do their stuff. I don't know, it's a bit like RTW - you feel there's a great game in there somewhere but it just hasn't been fully realized.
Corruption isn't bad. If you keep your Empire at a decent size, its no beef. Civilization was already "realized" with civ 2, 3 is fun, but isn't as great because it adds corruption etc and doesn't really move the series forward.

If you do not agree that Civ 2 is one of the top ten greatest strategy games ever, well then, keep in mind that my words are backed with nuclear weapons